1. CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE POOR TEARFUND’S RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

2. Tearfund’s response to Climate Change Environmental sustainability:  Reduce our emissions  Influence churches & supporters  Advocacy for policy change  Donor funding & policies  Transform communities - CCA - DRR - WATSAN

3. Awareness Help Partners become aware of the impacts of climate change on their local environment & the potential to undermine their projects’ sustainability Help Partners understand the links between local environmental degradation and their own programmes

4. Participatory Research Accessing local environmental knowledge: Changes in weather and seasons Changes in biodiversity & crop yields Adaptive capacity Existing coping mechanisms Accessing district and national knowledge and resources, including meteorological

5. Assessment Vulnerability Risk Assessments Environmental Impact Assessments Ensure all existing & new projects Do No Harm to the environment Identify projects to modify so they Do Some Good to the environment Identify the need for any new projects for climate change adaptation Communities have the right to develop. How to achieve this sustainably? Renewable energy projects

6. Education Identify Partner & Community training needs Regional workshops ES Tools: Vulnerability Risk Assessments, EIAs, Audits CCA Approaches and Designs Holistic (Closed Loop) Development Sustainable Living

7. Local Advocacy Identify opportunities for positive local advocacy E.g. China Local ENGOs

8. Knowledge Management Linking Partners into supporting networks to increase their capacities Micah Network CAN Government Contacts Partners as Knowledge Leaders Specialist Consultants

9. Resourcing Tools – See Environmental Sustainability Resources Workshops Networking Action Learning Linking ES and CCA into DRR & WATSAN

10. Cross Cutting Issues Gender Children Local Church

11. Community Participatory Flood Risk Decision Making in Malawi Participatory Decision Making

12. Environmental Sustainability in Disaster Management

13. Disaster Risk Reduction

14. Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation: Are they so different? DRR build resilience to recurring past disasters Achieved by creating or strengthening local capacities Influence national & international policy and legislation CCA build resilience to predicted extreme weather Achieved by creating or strengthening local capacities Influence national & international policy and legislation

15. Linking Disaster Risk Reduction & Climate Change Adaptation Disaster Crunch Model

16. Linking DRR & Climate Change Climate Change Mitigation Climate Change Adaptation

17. Community Preparedness & Response Community built monsoon evacuation route Bangladesh Adaptation through Disaster Risk Reduction

18. Participatory Assessment of Disaster Risks

19. Sustainable Projects – Do No Harm

20. WATSAN Tearfund Tube Well in Darfur

21. Agriculture Kenya: Alley Cropping Protecting & improving poor soils

22. Agriculture Natural Reforestation in Niger

23. Shelter Flood Resilient House – flood escape platform

24. Adaptation Approaches to Environmental Degradation & Climate Change

25. Community Radio in Afghanistan Education & Awareness

26. Local Advocacy Community Advocacy in Bangladesh

27. Livelihoods Tearfund beneficiaries harvesting a chilli crop

28. Drought Zai technique in Burkina Faso

29. Desertification Wells and dykes support Nomadic fixation sites in Niger

30. Rainwater catchment bunds in India Rapid Rainfall Runoff

31. Floods Floating gardens in Bangladesh

32. Flood protection in Afghanistan through riverbank planting Floods

33. Adapting to Floods Getting Ready for the Floods: Practical Action Nepal

34. Renewable Energy Wind Power in Sri Lanka