• Scale up climate-smart disaster risk
reduction, early warning and anticipatory
action and preparedness.
• Reduce the public health impacts of climate
change.
• Address climate displacement.
• Enable climate-resilient livelihoods and
ecosystem services.
Two climate-related projects worth 20 million
US dollars are already underway in partnership
with USAID. These will scale up locally led adap-
tation and transform humanitarian responses to
climate change, build coastal city resilience and
address extreme heat, in four countries in Africa,
five in Asia Pacific and two in the Americas.
In the longer term, investment in local program-
ming and initiatives through the Global Climate
Resilience Platform will result in communities
being better prepared to effectively anticipate,
respond and recover from the impact of evolv-
ing and multiple shocks and hazards based on a
risk-informed approach.
The IFRC network will focus on areas identified
as having the most potential for transformative
impact at scale through increased investment.
Work funded through the platform will support
meaningful participation and the active leader-
ship of women, local communities, Indigenous
peoples, youth and other marginalized and/
or underrepresented groups in the develop-
ment and implementation of locally led climate
action in 100 countries most vulnerable to
climate change.
The activities funded through the Global Climate
Resilience Platform are also designed to align
with, and contribute to, the objectives of the
UNFCCC Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework
for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sustainable
Development Goals.
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