red cross red crescent climate centre
The Climate Centre’s mission is to help the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
and its partners reduce the impacts of climate change and extreme-weather events
on vulnerable people. In recent decades, there has been a sharp increase in
weather-related disasters with climate change and there is an urgent need to
manage the rising risk of extreme-weather events through better early-warning,
disaster relief and risk reduction, and with climate-smart programmes for health
and care, water and sanitation, and food security. Our approach, working at the
intersection of science, policy, and practice, is detailed in our Strategy
2021−2025. A core objective is to make the best global scientific insights
operable at local level. Key elements include support for awareness-raising and
capacity-building, especially in developing countries whose people are the most
vulnerable to climate change. Policy needs to be geared toward climate-smart
planning, including better dialogues involving a wide range of stakeholders. The
Climate Centre focuses primarily on providing guidance and tools to National
Societies and their partners, and fostering the exchange of experience, training
and technical back-up for Red Cross Red Crescent volunteers, delegates and
managers specializing in disaster risk management and health. In the
international arena we facilitate access to climate-related channels of funding
and advocate for support to the most vulnerable people in debates on climate
policy, especially the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the annual
UN climate talks, but also related international discussions on development and
humanitarian policy and finance.
