A CLIMATE ACTION JOURNEY - for Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies - An integrated approach to scaling up climate action and locally led adaptation

A CLIMATE ACTION JOURNEY for Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies An integrated approach to scaling up climate action and locally led adaptation Climate change is contributing to humanitarian crises and What is climate action? reducing people’s ability to cope, affecting lives and livelihoods, especially in the poorest and most marginalized Reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause cli. [...] It is increasing the frequency, magnitude and intensity of climate and What are climate-smart programmes and operations? weather extremes, highlighting the difficult necessity for people, communities, and organizations to adapt to a rapidly Integrating available climate and weather information, both changing world. [...] Climate change adaptation is about taking action focused on increasing resilience to current and future effects of climate National Societies are embarking on a dedicated climate action change; locally led adaptation is simply owned by local partners: journey to enable them to initiate, deepen, and scale-up climate eight principles were developed to help ensure that local action and locally led ad. [...] climate risk assessment) and potential impacts on National D esign, implement and scale up locally led adaptation and Society operations, programmes and strategies (climate-smart climate action that increases community resilience. [...] The steps of the Climate Action Journey and operations FROM NATIONAL TO LOCAL  Community National Climate-smart Climate-smart plans, Multi-year engagement: Design of Implementation, climate risk climate capacity programmes for locally led assessment  screening programmes strategy strengthening locally led adaptation and and operations and assessments adaptation   climate action Understanding clima.