In a full-page letter published in Sunday's New York Times, Climate Resilience for All joined forces with women leaders from around the world calling on the U.S. to play its strongest role yet in global climate leadership. 🌎 More than 100 people are dead across the southern states of the U.S. from climate-fueled Hurricane Helene. Those lost lives, destruction, and long term trauma only make the need for action more urgent. CRA is proud to sign on to be part of a global community of leaders supporting impactful and bold U.S. leadership on climate change. The letter was coordinated and led by Bellwethers Group - we thank you. “As a connected network of women leading the world on finance, business, international development, science, and all aspects of the transition to a clean, resilient economy, all of us have pledged to work together on the climate and economic challenges facing our world.” “Since women have always been the first responders and rebuilders in crises, our leadership is already shaping the climate-positive economic transformation.” When Women are Climate Resilient, We Will All be Climate Resilient💥 Laurence Tubiana, Gina McCarthy, Emma Howard Boyd CBE, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, Meghna Chakkraborty, María Mendiluce, Mamta Borgoyary, Sharan Burrow, Jennifer Morris, Pat Mitchell, Jeannette Gurung, Dr Jan Corfee Morlot, @Isabel Hilton OBE, Peggy Liu, Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Tzeporah Berman, Valerie Rockefeller, Laura Clarke OBE, Sweta Chakraborty, PhD, Ellen Dorsey, Catherine Howarth OBE, Carey Bohjanen, Cameron Russell, Kathy Baughman McLeod, Mary McBryde, Geraldine Henrich-Koenis, Christina Stanton, Robyn James, Bianca Pitt
Climate Resilience for All
Non-profit Organizations
Protecting women and vulnerable communities from extreme heat.
About us
We are a global climate adaptation NGO dedicated to the protection of women and vulnerable communities from extreme heat. Our team is passionate about tangible results and trusted partnerships that help people now – and about changing the systems that bring harm from extreme heat to the human condition.
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www.climateresilience.org
External link for Climate Resilience for All
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Cape Town
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2023
Locations
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Cape Town, ZA
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Washington , DC, US
Employees at Climate Resilience for All
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Geraldine Henrich-Koenis
Chief Communications Officer at Climate Resilience for All
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Christina Stanton
COO | Business Development | Climate Change
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Leslie Johnston, M.Sc.
Strategic Philanthropy CEO | Board Director | Entrepreneur | Optimist | TEDx Speaker (x2)
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Laurie Goering
Climate change journalist and editor
Updates
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Our time at #NewYorkClimateWeek has ended and we leave inspired by the numerous allies and partners joining hands to advance solutions for the growing threat of #ExtremeHeat to women’s health, livelihoods, and economies worldwide. The camaraderie was so energizing and inspiring - we all know that working to address the effects of climate change can be overwhelming. We thank the many partners, colleagues, and organizations who joined our convenings and those who invited us to share our messages and perspectives at theirs. We also want to share our appreciation for CRA’s Board for coming together this week. One of the most concerning aspects of Climate Week is that the conversations continue to center around decarbonization and the energy transition. While both are incredibly urgent to address, there is an almost desperate urgency to ALSO focus on adaptation and resilience. With hundreds of millions of low-income people — especially women — currently exposed to rising temperatures, lost income, extended droughts, water and food shortages, physiological damage, and dramatically increased gender-based violence and mental health effects – we must move at the pace and scale of the problem. We also need to recognize that in most cases climate conversations and decisions: 🔴 Continue to leave women out of the decision-making process. 🔴 Fail to acknowledge the disproportionate impact that climate change—particularly heat—is having on women. 🔴 Fail to recognize that equal representation for women is key to solving the climate crisis. 💚Can be changed to make things right! Summer 2024 in the Northern Hemisphere is officially the hottest on record, a harsh warning of the climate crisis continues to expand. CRA will continue to push the conversation toward immediate actions, focusing on scaling evidence-based interventions with partners, advancing financing and investment in inclusive cooling and heat adaptation, and co-creating and delivering heat resilience for women and vulnerable communities. As the planet warms, the future of women is inseparable from the future of our world, and we will only achieve resilience when women are climate resilient. Thank you, Rachel Kyte, Emma Howard Boyd CBE Veronica Scotti Mary Ellen Iskenderian Self Employed Women's Association Clare Ballantine Kathy Baughman McLeod Global Centre for Climate Mobility Diana Guzman Humanity Insured Charlie Langdale Emilie Mazzacurati Valeria Ramundo Orlando Leslie Johnston, M.Sc. Sharon Cleary Nigel Topping, CMG SHE Changes Climate Mamta Borgoyary Bianca Pitt Robyn James Daughters for Earth Pat Mitchell Swiss Re Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE eugenia kargbo Mary McBryde Geraldine Henrich-Koenis Christina Stanton Visala Annamalai Matt McFarlane Laurie Goering Cherie Gray Laura Jessie FRSGS Nathanial PhD Joshua Amponsem Leslie Johnston, M.Sc. Mansi Shah Jeff Goodell Dr. Lyla June Johnston Francis Bouchard
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📣We are thrilled to announce the launch of our Extreme Heat Journalist Training Initiative kicking off next month with a three-day virtual course for journalists based in South Asia! 📣 If you are a journalist (staff or freelance) based in South Asia with at least one year of reporting experience, we invite you apply. The course is designed to enhance your reporting on the impacts of heat, give you new sources, science, and story angles, plus guidance on effective heat visuals. Each day will focus on a specific aspect of heat with small groups and practical exercises. The free online course will be led by Laurie Goering, CRA’s Extreme Heat Editor and other experienced climate journalists and top heat and health experts. Please fill out the application below by October 7; journalists accepted will be notified by October 11. Apply here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eK9BXw_X
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Climate Resilience for All is incredibly proud that our board chair, Rachel Kyte, has been appointed as the UK Climate Envoy. We are deeply thankful for the leadership, passion, and expertise that she brought to CRA’s mission and work, and delighted at the news of her appointment. We wish her every success in this critica role at a time when addressing the sources and impacts of climate has never been more urgent. Congratulations Rachel! 🇬🇧 When women are climate resilient, we will all be climate resilient. https://lnkd.in/eckZppQz
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Please join Climate Resilience for All's CEO Kathy Baughman McLeod at Devex's summit on the sidelines of UNGA 79! As the world deals with worsening climate challenges, it is clear that funders and implementers need to understand the intersection of climate justice and gender justice. This session will delve into the critical connections between climate justice and gender equity. The panel will explore how climate impacts disproportionately affect women and girls, and highlight how they are responding to this challenge, and outline what more needs to be done.✅ Register now 👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/dA7-QK65 #DevexEvent #UNGA79
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Thank you Women's World Banking and Sonja Kelly, PhD for inviting us to this critical conversation! There are so much good we can do and Climate Resilience for All agrees with your CEO Mary Ellen Iskenderian - there is nothing "micro" about 1 billion women!🌍🌍🌍 Reducing the barriers women face in accessing and using financial products and services is key! Even more so when extreme heat reduces income, creates or increases financial debt, and diminishes economic opportunities.
🌎 With 753 million women in climate-vulnerable countries lacking access to a bank account or e-wallet, the climate crisis is a women's #FinancialInclusion challenge. In the latest Making Finance Work for Women episode and ahead of #UNGA79 and #ClimateWeekNYC, we sat down with Kathy Baughman McLeod, CEO, Climate Resilience for All and one of Reuters' "Trailblazing Women in Climate for 2024." Together, we explored how finance can go beyond survival and empower women to thrive in the face of #ClimateChange. Listen: https://bit.ly/3XNMBzf
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Thank you Jess Ayers and Helen M. for your climate adaptation leadership and timely essay - and for the work your foundations are doing to accelerate and catalyze scalable, tangible solutions.🙏🙏 Climate Resilience for All will be in New York for #climateweek with you and others in our field sharing these messages and the urgent need to act at pace on heat with and for vulnerable communities, mobilizing resources, meeting partners, learning, and getting new ideas.💡 When women are climate resilient, we will all be climate resilient.🌟🌟 Quadrature Climate Foundation ClimateWorks Foundation Ruwa Matsika Jessica Brown Jessica Hitt Rachel Kyte Emma Howard Boyd CBE Leslie Johnston, M.Sc. Kathy Baughman McLeod https://lnkd.in/eQGcemXV
Helping Women Adapt to Extreme Heat Helps Us All | by Jess Ayers & Helen Mountford - Project Syndicate
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💥 Climate Resilience for All was in Washington DC at the #WhiteHouse yesterday for their #ExtremeHeat Summit where the Extreme Heat Call to Action was announced! 💥 Our CEO Kathy Baughman McLeod and Senior Heat Strategist for #Africa and #Freetown Chief Heat Officer eugenia kargbo were proud participants and contributed to the International Solutions Roundtable led expertly by USAID's Candace Fatima Vahlsing and US Treasury's Lida Fitts. The team shared local insights and intelligence from years of extreme heat work in Freetown with Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE and global insights on our work in India scaling #parametric #microinsurance to support informal working women's health and lost income from extreme heat. We heard from close to a dozen US agencies that have honed and developed sophisticated tools and resources for understanding and tackling extreme heat, including from NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Administrator Richard (Rick) Spinrad who featured the results of a collaboration with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called #HeatRisk, a color-numeric-based heat wave forecasting tool. And it's always a treat to hear the wise words of Victoria Salinas of FEMA and Jainey Bavishi of NOAA. 🙏 It also had a feel-good reunion air to it - with Eleni (Lenio) Myrivili, Jane Gilbert, Jad Daley, Laurie Schoeman, Olivia Collins, V. Kelly Turner, and Axum Teferra. 💞 There were leaders and practitioners representing local, state, Tribal, and territorial communities who shared their experiences and solutions in different contexts including a focus on children and their unique needs during heat events and perspective from the US Army Heat Center at Fort Moore in Georgia. There is no doubt that the Biden-Harris Administration is leading on extreme heat - yesterday proved it - and that the field (domestic and international) of expertise and tools for extreme heat is growing. Climate Resilience for All has made it a foundational pillar and priority to help grow the field at the pace and scale necessary for the hotter, more dangerous days ahead, especially for #women and #vulnerablecommunities. With the increasing awareness that women are 🚨 FOUR TIMES 🚨 more heat intolerant than men, and with the underlying drivers of poverty, culture, and gender roles, women are bearing the brunt of extreme heat. We’ll continue to collaborate, co-design and deliver community solutions, and drive home the message that heat solutions focused on women is a winning strategy for everyone. 🏆 When women are climate resilient, we will all be climate resilient. Mary McBryde Geraldine Henrich-Koenis Christina Stanton Visalaakshi Annamalai Laurie Goering #GloriaNgumi
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Some good news! All death from extreme heat is avoidable. Increasing our knowledge, understanding the actions we can take (before, during, and after an extreme heat wave), and having the capacity to take them will save lives and prevent sickness and injury as temperatures and extreme heat conditions continue to rise. This is at the core of the work Climate Resilience for All is doing around the world. Kathy Baughman McLeod Geraldine Henrich-Koenis Mary McBryde Christina Stanton eugenia kargbo Laurie Goering Visalaakshi Annamalai Larry Kalkstein https://lnkd.in/eKNxwUH6
CEO, Climate Resilience for All. Global executive leading positive impact on climate, extreme heat, gender, finance, nature, risk and resilience.
Today’s The New York Times OpEd by Eric Klinenberg is spot on and underscores the massive potential impact that mainstreaming heat wave naming across the world could have on saving lives and protecting health - especially for disproportionately affected groups like low-income and communities of color, women (especially when pregnant), children, elders, and people with existing health conditions. Klinenberg points out that naming heat waves is not a new idea. In 2021, I led an initiative that announced the intention to name and categorize heat waves, supported by California's Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara. In 2022 the first officially named heatwave in Seville, Spain arrived in July - heat wave Zoe - because of my team’s and our local partners' efforts. The naming convention in Spain was combined with a health-based heat wave ranking system. The evidence shows that health-based heat warnings are the most effective at reducing heat-related mortality. This system has been implemented and expanded across Greece and is now legislated in California and will soon be launched by CAL EPA, which could reach up to 39 million people. Fun fact: one in eight Americans live in California. Lastly, I am proud to have co-authored the first peer-reviewed journal article in Nature Scientific Reports that details the early evidence of positive changes in behavior because of the named heat event - in short, and while early, it shows the effectiveness of naming heat waves. Climate Resilience for All believes that naming heat waves is one of the biggest levers we have to convey the dangers and the steps people everywhere can take to protect themselves, their families, and employees. This is marketing, branding, mass communications, behavior change - and lots of science. Naming heat waves is one of the most scalable, easy-to-understand adaptation (and potentially life-saving) steps we can and should take. Jeff Goodell Rachel Kyte Leslie Johnston, M.Sc. Emma Howard Boyd CBE Selwin Hart Geraldine Henrich-Koenis Laurie Goering Larry Kalkstein Aaron Bernstein Amruta Nori-Sarma Peter Mitchell Aaron M. Kristen T. Louis Blumberg Jonathan Parfrey
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Thank you for participating and sharing International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)! 🙏 Climate Resilience for All is dedicated to telling and showing human stories as people experience, understand, and implement solutions that protect health and livelihoods as the world continues to roast.🥵 Laurie Goering Mosabber Hossain
Heat makes life hell for migrants living in climate-vulnerable Dhaka, Bangladesh. In a new article for Climate Resilience for All, Mosabber Hossain reports that despite Bangladesh being a global leader in climate adaptation and efforts to reduce disaster risk, its population – and migrant population in particular – is struggling with worsening extreme heat. IIED principal researcher Anna Walnycki comments, "People in informal settlements, in particular, are struggling to cope as extreme heat becomes more frequent; and without action, the situation is only going to get worse." Read the article now. --> https://lnkd.in/ec6eFibb #ExtremeHeat #Dhaka #migrants #adaptation #InformalSettlements