Climate Literacy

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE VITAL -- NASA -- https://climate.nasa.gov/

The INTERGOVERNMENT PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE -- https://www.ipcc.ch/

The WORLD METEROLOGICAL ORGANISATION -- https://wmo.int/

LATIN AMERICA (WMO) -- https://library.wmo.int/records/item/28347-el-estado-del-clima-en-america-latina-y-el-caribe-2021

IPCC -- The UN body of governmewnt representatives that comissions expert reports on the state of the climate.

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The global health effects of climate change are not well quantified today and are likely to increase in the future, with lower-income countries bearing the brunt of greater food insecurity, increased rates of chronic respiratory illnesses, and shifts in vector-borne diseases. This section explores the global health nexus between climate change and pollution and the possibilities for a more coherent policy approach to these issues.

US-Environmental Protection Agency

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit is a non-profit organisation that supports informed debate on energy and climate change issues in the UK.

Climate Change Professionals Group

Objectives :

The objective of INFORM Climate Change is to enhance decision-making by assessing the risk of climate-amplified hazards and identifying ways to mitigate these risks through improved coping capacity and reduction in vulnerability levels. It aims to :

✅  Achieve a shared understanding of climate change impacts on humanitarian crises

✅  Support policy making for greater resilience

✅  Allocate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate adaptation resources consistently with SDG and Sendai targets

✅ Identify inequalities in climate impacts, particularly amongst marginalised groups


Methodology :

INFORM Climate Change integrates climate and socioeconomic projections using Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) to project future hazards and exposure, including climate-related hazards like floods and epidemics, alongside changes in population distribution. These projections, applied over various timeframes, enable the assessment of changes in risk and vulnerability gaps, highlighting the necessary measures to maintain current risk levels.


Key findings:

➡ By 2050, under pessimistic climate change scenarios, over 1.6 billion people will reside in countries facing heightened humanitarian crisis risks and disasters, with the number of high-risk countries rising from 36 to 52.

➡ Crisis and disaster risks are projected to rise globally, with Africa anticipated to be severely affected, particularly in Western, Southern, and Eastern regions, alongside other vulnerable areas like Central and South America and Western and Southern Asia.

➡ More than 70% of countries with large predicted increases in crisis risk will not have the resources to cope.

➡ Increases in drought will be one of the most important drivers of increasing crisis risk. Almost 20% of the African population will be subjected to severe and extreme droughts.

➡ More than 300 million people will be exposed annually to river floods (50% more than today) and 70 million to coastal floods (almost double today).

➡  Epidemic risk associated with malaria, dengue and potentially other vector-borne or mosquito-borne diseases will increase significantly.