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Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
There is no scientific ambiguity to the fact that the world’s climate is warming and that this warming over the past 50 years is attributable in part to man’s activities. There is a wide consensus that this warming will lead to changing rainfall patterns, rising sea levels, increased spread of tropical disease, loss of biodiversity and increased frequency and amplitude of weather related natural disasters. Children are particularly at risk in a disaster and vulnerable to the incremental impacts of climate change. It is essential that their immediate and longer-term survival, protection and developmental needs are considered in any activities to prepare for or mitigate a potential disaster, or adapt to the negative impacts of longer-term climatic trends. Communities and local authorities need to listen to children to find out what risks they might face and how they might respond to them.
CCA programs are activities which aim to make adjustments in natural and human systems in response to actual or expected climate change and their effects. For Save the Children, adaptation is principally about practical measures in programming, policy and advocacy which reduce vulnerabilities or increase resilience of children and their communities from the negative effects of climate change. Disaster Risk Reduction and CCA are not mutually exclusive but in fact interdependent; a CCA project may be just as vulnerable to natural hazards as any other project and therefore needs a DRR component to protect the CCA investment. To address the risks and uncertainty predicted by climate change, both DRR and CCA analysis and programming must attempt to take account of the unpredictability of what may happen in the future as the planet continues to get warmer.
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Towards a Resilient Future: Children and Disasters
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Planning for the Future and Adapting to Climate Change in Ethiopia, Lessons from ACCRA
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Planning for the Future and Adapting to Climate Change in Mozambique, Lessons from ACCRA
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Towards the resilient future children want: a review of progress in achieving the Children’s Charter for Disaster Risk Reduction
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How to Integrate DRR and CCA into Education
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Introduction
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World Vision Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit: Tool 2- Risk Assessment for Design Phase
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Tackling the limits to adaptation: An international framework to address ‘Loss And Damage’ from climate change impacts
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