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. Read more ...

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CU-Boulder students focus on aid policies with new Red Cross partnership by Jake Hazan
Colorado Daily
June 26, 2013

CSTPR faculty and grad students (Dilling, Daly, Boykoff, Quandt,Tozier de la Poterie, and Venkateswaran) highlighted in Colorado Daily article on CU's Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre Internship program

 

This project is supported in part by the CU-Boulder Outreach Committee.

Cosponsored by
Outreach and Engagement University of Colorado Boulder
Center for Science and Technology Policy Research
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Environmental Studies Program