Thursday, 25 January 2024, 15.00-16.30 hrs
Open Discussion – CoP Climate and Health Justice
“Climate-smart means using climate information across timescales in designing and/or adjusting all our programmes and operations. In doing so, programmes and operations ensure that, at a minimum, they do not place people at increased risk in the future considering likely new climate extremes and growing vulnerabilities. In addition, this approach offers the initial steps in the Climate Action Journey for the National Societies to identify locally led adaptation needs and support communities to anticipate, absorb and adapt to climate change.” (quoted from IFRC website)
At this open discussion meeting, Monika Christophori-Khadka, Swiss Red Cross, introduced the IFRC Guide to climate-smart programming and operations, its tools and application in practice. This guide, produced by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, is designed to help Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies make their programmes and operations climate-smart.
Documentation
- Reference: IFRC Guide to climate-smart programming and operations
- Presentation by Monika Christophori-Khadka, Swiss Red Cross
IFRC – Guide to Climate-smart Programming_MMI 2024 - Recording of the session: here (Zoom recording)
- More recources available at: Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
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