Blistering heat linked to climate change is turning periods of very low rainfall like the one experienced since last summer in the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia into devastating droughts, World Weather Attribution scientists concluded in a new study released yesterday. “Persistent heat that evaporates water from soils, plants and reservoirs is driving the rise in drought risk,” the team found, with climate change boosting the likelihood of crippling droughts in the two islands by 50 per cent.
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Our mission is to help reduce the impacts of climate change and extreme-weather events on vulnerable people
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The Climate Centre’s mission is to help the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and its partners reduce the impacts of climate change and extreme-weather events on vulnerable people. The Climate Centre focuses primarily on providing guidance and tools to National Societies and their partners, and fostering the exchange of experience, training and technical back-up for Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers, delegates and managers specializing in the management of disaster risk and health. In the international arena we facilitate access to climate-related funding and advocate for support to the most vulnerable people in debates on climate policy, especially the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the annual UN climate talks, but also related international discussions on development and humanitarian policy and finance. A core objective is to make the best global scientific insights operable at the local level. Key elements include support for awareness-raising and capacity-building, especially in developing countries whose people are the most vulnerable to climate change.
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- 2002
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Africa bears an increasingly heavy burden from climate change and disproportionately high costs of adaptation, says a new report today from the World Meteorological Organization. On average, African countries are losing up to 5 percent of GDP and many are forced to divert nearly 10 percent of their budgets to responding to climate extremes, the WMO says.
WMO: African governments divert nearly 10% of their budgets to responding to climate extremes
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🚨 Internship opportunity 🚨 Heat wave impact assessment, Burkina Faso. We are looking for an intern to support our assignment, in the framework of the Ouaga2Cool project, which will be conducted to support the Burkina Faso Red Cross Society to improve their extreme heat simplified Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Ouagadougou and to upgrade it to a full protocol. Specifically, the assignment will have three objectives: a. A desk review of the impacts of the 2024 heat waves across the Sahel. b. A Survey across the city of Ouagadougou with a view to determine the most vulnerable socioeconomic groups. c. Writing up the risk and impact sections of the heat wave EAP of the Burkina Faso Red Cross Society. This position will be home-based. The intern must have a laptop, good Internet access, good command of English, Moore and French. The deadline for submission is Friday, 06th September 2024 at 23:59 CET. Please note that due to the expected number of applications, we will only contact you if you have been successful in your application.
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🚨 Internship opportunity 🚨- Heatwave climatological analysis, Burkina Faso. We are immediately looking for an intern for our assignment, in the framework of the Ouaga2Cool project, which will be conducted to support the Burkina Faso Red Cross Society to improve their extreme heat simplified Early Action Protocol (EAP) for Ouagadougou and to upgrade it to a full protocol. The intern should be based in Ouagadougou, must be conducting a Master's or Doctoral research in a university program for the entire duration of the placement (four months full time starting 16 September), has a background in climate sciences, environmental sciences, physical geography, statistics or similar. This position will be home-based. The intern must have a laptop, good Internet access, good command of English, Moore and French. The deadline for submission is Friday, 06th September 2024 at 23:59 CET. Please note that due to the expected number of applications, we will only contact you if you have been successful in your application.
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Climate change intensified the rainfall associated with Typhoon Gaemi in the western Pacific last July by as much as 14 per cent, a new study from World Weather Attribution issued today has found. Gaemi – named Super Typhoon Carina locally in the Philippines – “dumped more than 300mm of rainfall on Manila … leading to floods as deep as a one-storey building in downtown areas,” a WWA press release says.
‘Floods as deep as a one-storey building in downtown Manila’
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A “triple whammy” of rising seas combined with their warming and acidification is confronting Pacific island nations with “growing threats to their socioeconomic viability and indeed their very existence because of climate change,” the World Meteorological Organization said today. The WMO’s State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report details how sea levels there are rising faster than the global average – in much of the western tropical Pacific by as much as 15cm since 1993 or nearly twice the global rate since then.
WMO: Pacific island nations facing threefold climate shock
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The Mozambique government Wednesday rolled out its road map for achieving the UN-inspired Early Warnings for All (EW4All) target by the end of 2027. It was detailed by President Filipe Nyusi at a ministerial event in Maputo that was intended “to raise awareness about the need to use early warning measures to reduce human suffering at moments of natural disasters,” the official Mozambique news agency AIM said. “Much can be done to reduce the loss of human life and greater harm. Advance notice helps us to do this to protect ourselves,” the WMO quotes him saying at the event.
Mozambique charts course toward early warning for all
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“Strange,” Seru Ramakita said tersely. “The weather at this time of the year should be dry and sunny. Instead it is wet and cold.” Seru, 61, was born and raised in the village of Navuevu – home to 300 people and a two-hour drive from the Fiji capital, Suva. “As a result of the continuous rain, we are now experiencing flooding [for] the first time in 50 years.” The midday sun is blanketed by the dark clouds as the rustle of coconut leaves brings back memories, some familiar, some new – such as the recent flooding.
Y-Adapt inspires Fiji volunteers to tackle climate impacts head-on
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After above-average rainfall was forecast from August to October, the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund this week issued a grant of nearly 170,000 Swiss francs to enable the Malian Red Cross limit the impacts of potential flooding for 7,000 people in the south-east of the country. This follows a similar “imminent floods” IFRC-DREF grant for the same amount issued at the beginning of August for the South Sudan Red Cross, after the authorities there said they were “expecting unprecedented floods over large areas of the country”.
At opposite ends of Sahel, emergency IFRC-DREF funding for ‘imminent floods’
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IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain has issued a new call for urgent global action on climate change. Against a backdrop of some of the worst wildfires in recent Greek history, in this instance near Athens, “we are reminded once again of the urgent need to address the climate crisis,” Mr Chapagain said on X/Twitter Tuesday.
‘Everyone has a role to play in tackling the climate crisis. Words alone are not enough’
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