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US- and Netherlands-based scientists have used the latest computer technology to estimate the time frame […]

The UK Department for International Development (DFID) has announced new measures highlighting how “science, innovation […]

Better, quicker action in response to forecasts of extreme temperatures could reduce the risks and […]

Red Cross Red Crescent and Partners for Resilience specialists yesterday joined government leaders and other […]

When they saw how local beaches valued by fishers and tourists alike were being polluted […]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday. The Marshall Islands Red […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC news site. IFRC Head of Emergency Operations, […]

Pre-monsoon rains fell last week on what is now regarded as the most densely populated […]

Since the beginning of last year, Partners for Resilience in Guatemala’s Santa Rosa department, through Wetlands […]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) last week gave the 2018 Commission on Climatology Award for […]

A week of intensive activity by Partners for Resilience (PfR) and other agencies in the […]

The catastrophic impact of Hurricane Irma last September on the Dutch Caribbean island of Sint […]

Only about 10 per cent of the climate finance available from international donors is channelled […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the UN body created 30 years ago […]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday. Rosemarie North is the […]

South Sudan’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MHADM) last week published its Strategic […]

Ten national African meteorological services were last month represented at the first dialogue platform for […]

The Ecuadorean Red Cross has begun scoping work for a new German-supported forecast-based financing (FbF) […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has […]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC website yesterday. In 2016 scientists concluded that climate […]

The theme of this year’s World Meteorological Day – Weather-ready, climate-smart – “highlights the need for […]

It will take concerted global action that includes cutting greenhouse gas emissions and better development […]

(This story appeared first on the Kenya Red Cross and IFRC websites earlier this week. […]

A new report from the UK-based think tank the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) says forecast-based […]

World Weather Attribution (WWA) scientists Friday said the lethally strong winds that battered western Europe in […]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday, together with other photos […]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of InsideClimate News. It has been […]

Zambia last week became the latest country to embrace the forecast-based financing (FbF) model as […]

The three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference that aimed to “inspire the next frontier […]

March sees the start of the peak flood-season in the Peruvian rain forest, and it […]

(A press release, including media contacts, on the Red Cross response to the European cold […]

(A version of this story appeared first in French last month on the website of […]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BRACED project websites. […]

Children who fled violence in Myanmar and walked or travelled by boat to safety in […]

(This report is now being published on partner websites; it was posted on the Climate […]

The three-and-half-year Protracted Crisis Programme for Ethiopia’s Somali Region reached nearly 38,500 people with food […]

The three-and-half-year Protracted Crisis Programme for Ethiopia’s Somali Region reached nearly 38,500 people with food […]

The IFRC today released US$ 277,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to enable the […]

(This story appeared first earlier today in the New Zealand Herald. It has been edited […]

(A version of this story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) The […]

The United Arab Emirates yesterday said at the 2018 World Government Summit in Dubai that […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has […]

The UN Security Council last week said it recognized the impact of climate change, ecological […]

In this policy brief for the 9th session of the World Urban Forum in Kuala […]

Arguing that disasters can wipe out development gains and are being exacerbated by climate change, […]

Another year of extremes. Find our multimedia report here. 

Teams from the French Red Cross have been assisting Parisians evacuated from their homes as […]

The Netherlands-based IKEA Foundation is donating 10 million euros to assist Red Cross ‘early warning […]

A panel at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos yesterday heard a call […]

The IFRC said today that with well over half of Mongolia now facing at least […]

The IFRC on Thursday published a detailed road map for its work in Africa over […]

Five-thousand households in Kenya’s Garissa county have adopted improved farming and animal husbandry techniques as […]

For the second year in a row environmental issues dominate the survey of the perception of risk […]

Bangladeshis were this week recovering from a severe cold snap that claimed the lives of […]

Last year was Australia’s third-hottest since national records began in 1910, according to the annual […]

Malawi government officials say they want to strengthen social protection and humanitarian systems to make […]

  This brief explores how social protection can support climate-risk management and resilience by addressing […]

The final insurance bill for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and other 2017 disasters, including […]

(This story first appeared yesterday on the IFRC news site.)   Madagascar is on high […]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today said the organization’s number one focus in 2018 […]

(This story appeared first earlier today, 26 December, on the IFRC news site, as did […]

(This story apeared first yesterday on the news site of the Philippine Red Cross – […]

A snapshot of climate-related humanitarian events of 2017 through the eyes of the Climate Centre news […]

By Rebeka Ryvola, Climate Centre, New York On stage, the alluringly fragrant crostinis were sizzling […]

Partners for Resilience in Indonesia earlier this month supported a workshop in Jakarta convened by […]

New World Weather Attribution study of Hurricane Harvey shows associated extreme rainfall roughly three times more […]

Scientists with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group today said human-caused climate change made the […]

A major new global summit on climate was convened yesterday in the French capital by […]

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last month issued a new edition of its […]

The global launch of pilots of the Y-Adapt programme for engagement by young people in […]

(A BRACED/PfR webinar today Tuesday, hosted by Saleemul Huq and Maarten van Aalst, covered many of the […]

An e-learning course on climate adaptation by the IFRC’s Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Centre […]

The Ecuadorean Red Cross (ERC) on Wednesday became the second South American National Society after […]

Forecast-based financing has been piloted in many countries with support from the German government through the German […]

The PMI* – the Red Cross in Indonesia – last week expanded its forecast training […]

(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Friday. It […]

(*This story appeared first last week, before the GCECA was launched, on the Thomson Reuters […]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today described climate change as “a key driver of […]

Filipe Nainoca, Director-General of the Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS), says Fijians have a neat way […]

The 15th Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) workshop ended in Bonn yesterday evening with […]

The Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Andrew Norton, today told […]

The Development & Climate Days (‘D&C Days’) workshop over the middle weekend of UN climate talks […]

The president of the Kiribati Red Cross, Martin Tofinga (pictured, centre), today told a workshop […]

(This story appeared first last month on the IFRC website. It has been edited here […]

The Climate Centre study of humanitarian perparedness for the 2015-2016 El Niño in Ethiopia, Kenya, […]

The Climate Centre today publishes a detailed study of how the climate risk inherent in the […]

(This story appeared first last week on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It […]

(This opinion piece appeared first earlier today on the Devex website.) This month, at a […]

Staying several steps ahead of possible health impacts from weather and climate was the focus […]

The Lancet Countdown – the UK-based international medical journal’s annual assessment of links between climate […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has […]

The Irish Red Cross (IRC) late yesterday said its emergency crews remained on stand-by after […]

(This story is the third in our series today marking the 2017 International Day for Disaster Reduction.) […]

(This article, written specially for International Day for Disaster Reduction, appeared first on the UNISDR […]

(This blog, published for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, appeared first yesterday on the […]

A scientific workshop ended today in the Czech capital, Prague, intended to lay out modalities […]

The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) began working closely […]

(This story appeared first on Friday on the websites of Wetlands International and Partners for […]

The Red Cross is this week continuing to assist with two major operations to get […]

Besides each other, we in the humanitarian sector rely, broadly speaking, on three professional communities […]