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An ambitious, cooperative project to create solar-powered, lighter-than-air sculptures at Development and Climate Days (“D&C Days”) in the Peruvian capital, [...]

Community-based approaches are increasingly emphasized as the most viable for planning and implementing climate adaptation in developing countries, but it’s [...]

By the Climate Centre The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published the full synthesis of its Fifth Assessment [...]

(This article was first published by Climate Central on 20 October 2014.) The phantom El Niño continues to hold sway over the weather and [...]

This year, World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme as it questions why culture is not a central consideration in [...]

Participants at the final conference of the Climate Forum East project, in the Belarus capital Minsk last week, were disconcerted [...]

At the Country Club Lima Hotel during COP 20 in Lima 6–7 December 2014 #zerozero For the first time in history, an opportunity exists [...]

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today announced a “Climate Information to Climate Action” initiative [...]

For the first time in its history, the United Nations has created an international mission for a public-health emergency. The [...]

The IFRC and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) today signed a historic partnership agreement that aims [...]

The first-ever global conference on climate and health ended last Friday at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO). It [...]

Guatemala’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED), and the National Council [...]

A global campaign to improve weather and climate services for all small island developing states was launched this week with [...]

Intense heatwaves, heavier downpours, and severe droughts and wildfires. These are all climate impacts projected to become more severe this [...]

The latest addition last week to the Australian Red Cross (ARC) series of online gender briefing papers covers how gender can [...]

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) last week launched a comprehensive resource pack “to spark discussion about climate trends [...]

The IFRC yesterday announced the release of its new supplementary guidance, Integrating Climate Change and Urban Risks into the Vulnerability [...]

As of this month, US$ 52 billion of new development investment in the World Bank’s programme for the poorest countries [...]

Last month’s Humanitarian Summer School on games for development and humanitarian work was the first of its kind at the [...]

Germany – in a bid to improve understanding between humanitarians and climate scientists – has announced new support for a [...]

The biennial forum of Understanding Risk (UR), whose theme was “producing actionable information”, ended at University College London today, after [...]

Many governments are now preparing for an El Niño – associated with regional-scale drought and floods – based on advice [...]

World experts in the emerging field of “human computation” gathered in Washington, DC last week to discuss the possibly unprecedented [...]

The Climate Centre last week ran a two-day training session in game facilitation for staff at the International Fund for [...]

President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines yesterday said it is now vital to mount “a focused international effort to address [...]

Officials, academics, scientists and development practitioners last week gathered at two workshops in Zambia to discuss the country’s future climate [...]

Deadly floods and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia were caused by “some of the heaviest rainfall on [...]

Resources from the Climate Centre’s Climate Training Kit were rolled out for the first time in the Horn of Africa [...]

Professionally facilitated “writeshops” last June in Bali, Indonesia, and earlier this year in Guatemala and Nicaragua have generated book-length collections [...]

A new research paper by specialists from the Climate Centre, German Red Cross, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, and VU University [...]

The 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA8) ended in the Nepalese capital this week with the “Kathmandu Declaration” calling [...]

The New York-based International Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), an IFRC partner organization, this week increased to 75–80 per [...]

(This is a shortened version of the IPCC press release issued from Berlin on 13 April.)  A new report by [...]

This article was first published on the social reporting blog of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized [...]

Before heading off on their spring break, students enrolled in George Washington University (GWU) Geography’s “Environmental Hazards” class last month [...]

(This article was first published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation) The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [...]

The Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Bekele Geleta, said today he [...]

A new course, Climate change – an introduction to staff and volunteers, was launched yesterday on the online IFRC learning [...]

The results have been announced in the first-ever international contest for the creation of sound art focusing on climate impacts [...]

The Director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Lisa Goddard, explained what may be behind the [...]

Many of the initiatives that societies take around the world suffer from the same critical problem: lack of engagement by [...]

There is enormous pressure on the climate science community to provide output that is relevant to society, and to meet [...]

Flood losses in Europe are likely to increase “considerably” over the next few decades, partly because of projected climate change, [...]

The world yesterday entered what the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration calls “a new era” of global weather observation [...]

The British Met Office – in a new report offering a “global perspective” on the severe weather in the UK [...]

The Climate Centre last Thursday remotely facilitated a session at the University of Colorado-Boulder of Paying for predictions – its [...]

The Secretary General of the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC), Gijs de Vries, has welcomed a 2.2m euro donation from the [...]

(This is an abridged version of an article in the current issue of Nature Geoscience by Erin Coughlan de Perez, [...]

Scientists at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) say last year tied with 2006 and 2009 for the [...]

A new look at the future of “community-based adaptation” (CBA) has been made available for pre-ordering online by publishers Routledge. [...]

The IFRC’s Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Centre (CADRIM), hosted by the Barbados Red Cross Society, last week launched its [...]