Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship Program :: Center for Science and Technology Policy Research

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This program seeks to improve climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change within the humanitarian sector. It connects humanitarian practitioners from the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre [RC/RC CC] an affiliate of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [IFRC] with science-policy graduate student researchers at the University of Colorado, to accomplish three specific goals:

  1. to improve the capacity of humanitarian practitioners within IFRC network at the interface of climate science, policy and practice
  2. to forge a unique partnership and facilitate collaborations between CU and RC/RC CC
  3. to help meet needs and gaps as well as work as a research clearing house in the stated themes climate change communication and adaptation decision-making in response to climate variability and change, as identified through RC/RC CC priorities and projects

 

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