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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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Children’s Action for Disaster Risk Reduction. Views from Children in Asia
This publication seeks to document the perspective of children from seven Asia countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) on how disasters and climate change affect their lives and their rights. The report highl
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Cobwebbed: International Food Price Crisis and National Food Prices. Some Experiences from Africa
The paper provides an overview of what caused high and volatile prices in international food commodity markets, the major causes of national food price increases, the winners and losers within countries when food prices are high and volatile, and then loo
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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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The Poverty and Welfare Impacts of Climate Change: Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies
This report addresses the way climate change affects global poverty rates and presents country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations as well as governments' risk management programs. It surveys the research terrain concerning
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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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Financing Local Adaptation: Ensuring Access for the Climate Vulnerable in Bangladesh
This report explores the crucial question of how to bridge the divide between increasing sources of adaptation finance, most of which currently exist at international or national levels, and local communities at the grassroots level that are facing the im
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Education- Under the Weather! Impacts of climate change on education
Climate change may be one of the most complex challenges the world faces in the 21 st century. The effects of weather-related phenomena on the lives of vulnerable populations, particularly children, can be catastrophic. Aide et Action presents an overview
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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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Climate change, children and youth in Cambodia: Successes, challenges and policy implications
The brief presents an overview of climate impacts in the context of existing poverty and vulnerability, before specifically focusing on child impacts. The brief draws on Children in a Changing Climate (CCC) research with children, presenting views of the
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Derecho a un futuro: Las negociaciones sobre el cambio climático deben tener en cuenta a los niños
Climate change is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century- and children from developing countries will be the most overwhelmingly affected. Climate change poses severe threats to child survival and wellbeing, food security and nutrition, a
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Leaving home: Voices of children on the move
Children have become an important part of large-scale population movements both within and between countries and are likely to be increasingly affected in the next decades as a result of globalisation, socio-economic shifts and climate change. Yet, in deb
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Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia
In 2009, research with children, adults, and policymakers took place in drought and flood prone regions of Kenya and Cambodia to see how children saw their rights being linked to changing climatic conditions. This report presents evidence of children’s ca