01/02/2021 - by the Climate Centre
The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy. The Green Response Working Group (GRWG) – a coalition of National Societies, IFRC and ICRC representatives – last month released a new report,
Red Goes Green, drawing on interviews across the Movement as well as with environmental experts and local humanitarian actors. Its findings and recommendations were used to develop the checklist for Movement components and other agencies. “Climate change and environmental degradation are increasing the world’s vulnerability and exposure to risks, disproportionately impacting the most vulnerable communities,” the report says, adding that “the humanitarian community has a responsibility to support vulnerable communities to increase their resilience to the impacts of the climate and environmen
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Pandemic deaths have numbed our humanity and perception of risk
COVID-19 is not the first event to demonstrate the numbing effect of big data, but it reinforces the challenge of developing a true perspective of risk.
This article was first published in the newsletter Managing Outcomes
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On one terrible day in December, COVID-19 deaths on a single day in the United States for the first time exceeded the death toll from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
Commentators noted that the 3054 COVID fatalities in one 24-hour period also exceeded the deaths at Pearl Harbour in 1941, and more than died as a result of the Johnstown flood in 1889; Hurricane Katrina in 2005; Hurricane Maria in 2017; and the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
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