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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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Intense Climate Disasters and Development in Asia and the Pacific
The frequency of intense floods and storms is increasing globally, particularly in Asia-Pacific, amid the specter of climate change. Associated with these natural disasters are more variable and extreme rainfall and temperatures as recorded in publicly av
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Changing climate, Changing disasters: Pathways towards integration
A guide from the Strengthening Climate Resilience consortium (IDS, Plan and Christian Aid), focusing on a Climate Smart Disaster Risk Management (CSDRM) approach that offers different ‘routes’ to integration (and indicators to track progress) for agencies
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Should the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change recognize climate migrants?
This article addresses the expected increase of migration flows due to climate change, especially from socially and environmentally vulnerable populations, and the absence of official protection under international law, which has implications for the huma
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Girls and Climate Change Package of activities
These activity plans are intended to help explore how climate change can have different impacts on boys and girls. A brief is also provided to give teachers insight into the topic and a taster of some of the issues facing girls in relation to climate chan
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The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptive Processes to Climate Variability: The cases of southern Ethiopia and southern Mali
Farmers and herders in arid regions of Africa face serious challenges in adapting to climate change and variability. They are highly exposed to climate stresses, especially drought, but adaptation to climate change is far from being a clear-cut biophysica
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Mapping Save the Children's Global DRR & CCA activities 2012
This is the third edition mapping our global footprint of DRR and CCA projects and programs in 2012 it also analyses and reflects on how our footprint has changed over the course of the past seven years and whether fundamental shifts have taken place in o
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Protect my future: Why child protection matters in the post 2015 agenda
This inter-agency paper is the culmination of a series on the links between child protection and major development goals, designed to feed into the thematic debates around the post-2015 development framework. The alarming impacts of child protection failu
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Enough food for everyone: The need of UK action on global hunger
One in eight people on this planet are living with the pain of hunger. More than 2 million children die every year because they can’t get enough to eat, and millions more face a life of lost potential, stunting and pain. And yet our planet provides enough
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The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) launches its landmark report "The geography of poverty, disasters and climate extremes in 2030". The report is intended as an input to the post-2015 debates and aims to make clear that ending extreme poverty will n
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Breaking the Mould: Transforming the economic development paradigm
Since the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were agreed more than a decade ago, the world has made dramatic progress in its fight against poverty. Some 600 million people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, 56 million more children go to school tod
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Livelihoods at the limit: Reducing the risk of disasters and adapting to climate change. Evidence from the consolidated Household Economy Analysis database
This report draws on the compiled Household Economy Analysis dataset and analysis tools to answer some of the most pressing questions about disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in a range of livelihood contexts:- Which single shock has th
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How to Integrate DRR and CCA into Education
This chapter provides practical advice and examples of how to integrate Disaster Risk Reduction into Save the Children programs. The chapter discusses how Disaster Risk Reduction can be incorporated within each of the pillars of the Comprehensive School S