A “triple whammy” of rising seas combined with their warming and acidification is confronting Pacific island nations with “growing threats to their socioeconomic viability and indeed their very existence because of climate change,” the World Meteorological Organization said today. The WMO’s State of the Climate in the South-West Pacific 2023 report details how sea levels there are rising faster than the global average – in much of the western tropical Pacific by as much as 15cm since 1993 or nearly twice the global rate since then.
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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. 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 the management of disaster risk and health. In the international arena we facilitate access to climate-related 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. A core objective is to make the best global scientific insights operable at the 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.
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The Mozambique government Wednesday rolled out its road map for achieving the UN-inspired Early Warnings for All (EW4All) target by the end of 2027. It was detailed by President Filipe Nyusi at a ministerial event in Maputo that was intended “to raise awareness about the need to use early warning measures to reduce human suffering at moments of natural disasters,” the official Mozambique news agency AIM said. “Much can be done to reduce the loss of human life and greater harm. Advance notice helps us to do this to protect ourselves,” the WMO quotes him saying at the event.
Mozambique charts course toward early warning for all
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“Strange,” Seru Ramakita said tersely. “The weather at this time of the year should be dry and sunny. Instead it is wet and cold.” Seru, 61, was born and raised in the village of Navuevu – home to 300 people and a two-hour drive from the Fiji capital, Suva. “As a result of the continuous rain, we are now experiencing flooding [for] the first time in 50 years.” The midday sun is blanketed by the dark clouds as the rustle of coconut leaves brings back memories, some familiar, some new – such as the recent flooding.
Y-Adapt inspires Fiji volunteers to tackle climate impacts head-on
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After above-average rainfall was forecast from August to October, the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund this week issued a grant of nearly 170,000 Swiss francs to enable the Malian Red Cross limit the impacts of potential flooding for 7,000 people in the south-east of the country. This follows a similar “imminent floods” IFRC-DREF grant for the same amount issued at the beginning of August for the South Sudan Red Cross, after the authorities there said they were “expecting unprecedented floods over large areas of the country”.
At opposite ends of Sahel, emergency IFRC-DREF funding for ‘imminent floods’
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IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain has issued a new call for urgent global action on climate change. Against a backdrop of some of the worst wildfires in recent Greek history, in this instance near Athens, “we are reminded once again of the urgent need to address the climate crisis,” Mr Chapagain said on X/Twitter Tuesday.
‘Everyone has a role to play in tackling the climate crisis. Words alone are not enough’
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Climate change made the hot, dry, windy conditions that supercharged catastrophic Pantanal wildfires in June 40 per cent more intense and up to five times more likely, a new WWA rapid analysis released Thursday has concluded. The Pantanal – the world’s largest tropical wetland – usually floods from November to April during the rainy season, then drains from May to October; it sits mostly in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul and parts of eastern Bolivia (photo) and Paraguay.
Climate change drives wildfires in South America’s Pantanal wetland, the world’s largest – Study
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Last month saw the world’s hottest day in recent history, the World Meteorological Organization said yesterday, quoting an ECMWF dataset that goes back to 1940. On 22 July 2024, the global thermometer reached an average of 17.16°C – “yet another unwelcome indication of the extent that greenhouse gases from human activities are changing our climate,” a World Meteorological Organization press release said. The following day was a near tie.
22 July 2024: ‘World’s hottest day’ culminates a month of heat and fire
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Never before has a Category 4 storm emerged from the Atlantic in June, the first month of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season. This is the first time the region been exposed so early in the year to a hurricane whose winds and heavy rains cost lives and led to such widespread damage. The extremely warm waters of the South Atlantic acted as fuel for the storm, quickly turning it into a major hurricane. More than 1.2 million people were affected in Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hardest hit islands.
‘I want people to know this: climate change has turned storms into monsters’
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The extreme heat that has been affecting large parts of Europe and North Africa would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, a new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution found. Temperatures were pushed up more than 3°C in a regional heatwave of a kind “now relatively common” and likely to become even more frequent. “Mediterranean countries have endured dangerous heat which widely surpassed 40°C during July,” a WWA press release said yesterday.
Mediterranean heatwave exacerbated by climate change forces Olympics to adapt
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Join us at The Eastern Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Action! Theme: From Policy to Practice: Strengthening Disaster Risk Management through Anticipatory Action. Location: Mombasa Start Date: 01 Oct, 2024 08:00 AM End Date: 03 Oct, 2024 08:00 AM Timezone: GMT 03:00 Africa/Nairobi Check the link to register on Zoom.
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