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11 August 2022
COPE: helping children and youth prepare for disasters
Author Martha Keswick creates books to help children and youth prepare for disasters.
Side event
COP27: Be ready for disasters - Empowering future generations with practical knowledge in DRR
This side event will be held both in-person and virtually on 10 November 2022, 15:15 – 16:30 Cairo Time (UTC+2). WMO-IPCC-MERI Pavilion.
Children need to be empowered and prepared with training in Disaster Risk Reduction to act as role models in their communities.
This session will provide DRR knowledge through the creative COPE series of story books and related educational approaches. It aims to scale up resources and advocacy for children’s disaster risk education, for example, on Multi-Hazard Early Warning System literacy, to support children and youth to play a better role in DRR. The theme of the session and panel discussion will be:
- Highlighting the provision of DRR knowledge through the creative COPE series of story books and related educational approaches. How to scale up resources and advocacy for children’s disaster risk education, for example, on Multi-Hazard Early Warning System literacy, and how we can support children and youth to play a better role in DRR.
- Launching officially the COPE Heatwaves book. See the trailer here
Confirmation for in-person or virtual participation will need to be done through hello@cope-disaster-champions.com.
