Ageing in the climate crisis

This policy brief explores how climate change affects older people and makes the case for more age-responsive and inclusive climate action.

This policy brief explores how climate change is affecting older people in small-scale fishing communities across South and Southeast Asia and calls for age-inclusive adaptation, social protection and climate finance.

The community of Brisas del Volador in Bogota offers a powerful example of how age-friendly, nature-based solutions can transform neighbourhoods.

This guide brings together age-friendly approaches with ecosystem-based adaptation, enabling local groups to design projects that benefit both people and nature.

This report highlights how inclusive green spaces can create social, environmental and health benefits.

What HelpAge will be advocating for at COP29.

Climate change has the potential to deter health, well-being, and livelihoods of the ageing population. Yet, the repercussions of global ageing for climate action remains absent from debates on climate change.

HelpAge's input on older people in the context of climate-change induced disasters.

A commitment to put older people at the forefront of climate solutions

A commitment to put older people at the forefront of climate solutions

A commitment to put older people at the forefront of climate solutions

A commitment to put older people at the forefront of climate solutions

Consultation report to help achieve the Grey and Green manifesto priorities.

This paper states HelpAge International's position on how climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies can take into account ageing populations and their specific vulnerabilities.

This newsletter looks at our work on disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean.

The Disaster Risk and Age Index ranks 190 countries across the world on the disaster risk faced by older people.

This report gives a comprehensive overview of how older people can be included in disaster preparedness, mitigation and response planning.

This summary report looks at the outcomes and recommendations from a HelpAge regional workshop on disaster risk reduction held in Bangkok, Thailand in October 2012.

This discussion paper highlights the impact of environmental and climatic risk on older people and the ageing world, and presents what strategies can be developed to address this issue. It recommends that successful climate adaption and national development and resilience strategies must respond to the realities of the world’s ageing demographic under a changing climate.

This project newsletter looks at our programme to help vulnerable populations and communities to manage risks associated with hurricanes and floods. The project is currently being implemented in ten communities across St Catherine and is expected to end in December 2012.

This report was commissioned by the Latin American Partnership Programme Arrangement (LAPPA) – of which HelpAge International is a member. It discusses climate change and outlines ten key principles for action in Latin America.

A&D 27 shows that older people have a unique perspective on climate change. It also includes news and reviews on health, population ageing, social pensions and the Haiti earthquake.

This paper looks at older people’s experience of climate change, their awareness of it and how it makes them vulnerable. It highlights older people’s exclusion from climate change debates.