Annual report

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Annual Report 
2022

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preparation for COP27, and influencing global 
climate policy towards strengthening language 
on resilience and adaptation, heat waves, financ-
ing for locally led climate action, and calling for 
urgent actions to address the humanitarian 
impacts of climate change.
National Societies were supported to engage 
their governments on climate related issues 
throughout 2022, including support for locally 
led adaptation and scaling up programmes 
to reduce the risks of extreme climate- and 
weather-related events.
A significant number of National Societies, 
including 15 National Societies as part of their 
government delegations, were supported to 
attend the UNFCCC 
COP27
in Egypt to engage 
and support their governments on these pri-
ority issues.
Ahead of COP27, the IFRC called the world’s 
attention to the need for a smarter approach to 
financing life-saving climate change adaptation 
and disaster risk reduction work in a new report 
titled 
Where it matters most: Smart climate financ-
ing for the hardest hit people
.
In addition to the launch of the Global Climate 
Resilience Platform and participation in events 
such as Early Warning for All, the IFRC took 
part in more than 70 side events at COP27 and 
co-led the Resilience Hub. IFRC also took part in 
negotiations with a focus on loss and damage 
and climate adaptation. The IFRC also signed 
a Memorandum of Understanding with the 
International Union for Conservation of Nature 
and Natural Resources, to support its work on 
nature-based solutions.
The IFRC launched Climate Red TV to help IFRC 
volunteers and staff engage in COP27 through 
climate video stories detailing the impacts of 
climate and environmental crises in local com-
munities and what National Societies are doing 
to respond. In ten days, more than 200 stories 
were received from 80+ countries.
Towards the end of 2022, the IFRC and the Red 
Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre formed a