Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction

Description

Climate change can increase disaster risk in a variety of ways - by altering the frequency and intensity of hazard events, affecting vulnerability to hazards, and changing exposure patterns. Climate change is causing dangerous and widespread disruption in nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce the risks, people and ecosystems least able to cope are being hardest hit. For more than a decade, development and humanitarian practitioners have been advocating for an approach that integrates disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation to build resilience in a sustainable way.

Challenges

Disasters and climate change both have similar consequences for people’s lives. There is significant overlap between the problems that disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation seek to address. Disaster risk reduction covers non-climate related disasters such as earthquakes. But it also addresses climate-related disasters such as floods, droughts, cyclones and storm surges. RECOVI Sweden is convinced that climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and health of the plan-et. Taking action now can secure our future.

Actions proposed by RECOVI SWEDEN

(1) Spreading the world in encouraging friends and co-workers in reducing carbon ; (2) Lobbying local politicians and industrial businesses to support efforts to cut emissions and reduce carbon pollution; (3) Transform our home environment, school and transport; (4) Managing our school and home waste for recycling and reuse ; (5) Planting trees and Focus on planet-friendly investments; (6) Awaken communities to the activities of disaster risk reduction; (7) To seek to Contribute in COPs meetings through partnering with international platforms and coalition as GNDR.

Geographical Areas of intervention

(1) Burundi, - (2) Sweden

Strategies and/or Approach

Workshops; Training; Outreach; Awareness on Shoping local and buying sustainable ; Trees’ planting campaigns; family garden; sustainable agriculture; composting; participating in UN meetings.