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The Red Cross Red Crescent Centre for Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CCM) today (Thursday) launches […]

Water shortages, disease, crime, rising food prices, house fires, uncontrolled urbanization (migration from rural areas): […]

(This is an abridged verson of an article that appeared on www.irinnews.org.) Contrary to popular […]

The 2012 prize for best master's thesis in humanitarian logistics has been awarded by the […]

(A full version of this article ran in last month’s Islands Business magazine.) The recent […]

US-based Climate Centre team members last week attended the 2013 annual meeting of the American […]

The United Nations Security Council held an informal session last Friday, convened by Pakistan and […]

The Climate Centre and the IFRC’s Fiji-based regional office have put together a new, one-stop-shop […]

Detailed new IFRC guidance for National Society staff and volunteers stresses the importance of following […]

A full multimedia gallery of content, including video, generated by last July’s Understanding Risk Forum […]

The Cloud Nasara project to produce two animated short-films illustrating climate issues in the Pacific […]

Harmonized messaging is a key goal in disaster reduction awareness, and is particularly important when […]

Early warning is one of many important tools that contribute to the prevention of disasters […]

The president of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), Jagath Abeysinghe, has presided over […]

Measurements from around the world suggest monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, according […]

Carbon dioxide doesn’t just stay in the atmosphere and warm the planet: about one third […]

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology today said the current heatwave will continue for the next […]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) has launched a new version of […]

The Climate Centre has joined Argentina’s Tres de Febrero University in opening a competition for […]

Two-thousand-and-twelve was not just a great Olympic year! It was also the year in which […]

“I ask all of us here, if not us, then who? If not now, then […]

A new report for the UK government aimed at helping policy-makers reduce the risks of […]

A new agreement between the IFRC and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) could deliver […]

Carbon dioxide does not just stay in the atmosphere and warm the planet. About one third […]

The latest round of UNFCC climate talks, COP18, drew to a close in Qatar only a […]

Members of the South-East European Forum on Climate Change Adaptation have been finalizing “national advocacy […]

Some 200 people are now reported to have died after Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippine […]

With the latest round of UN climate talks now into their second week in the […]

By the Climate Centre Scientists and philosophers have long speculated on the role of games […]

By the Climate Centre The five Netherlands Partners for Resilience agencies last week launched a […]

A ground-breaking Red Cross Red Crescent project, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, to build operational […]

With climate change increasing the risk of extreme weather and disasters worldwide, national climate-adaptation plans […]

Games with an underlying serious purpose can speed up learning, dialogue and action on climate […]

The South East European Forum on Climate Change Adaptation has published her 5th newsletter issue. The […]

The five Netherlands Partners for Resilience agencies are working to adapt traditional participatory tools for community […]

Another one of our junior researchers, Selina Maenzanise, finished her research last summer. After winning […]

This past summer one of the Climate Centre’s Junior Researchers, Laura Canevari Luzardo conducted her master’s […]

Two of the Climate Centre’s junior researchers from King’s College London this summer were located in East Africa […]

Recently, the 30th edition of the Pacific newsletter Saving Lives Changing Minds was published. This issue […]

The Climate & Gender Game While there is growing consensus as to the differential impacts […]

On 29 June 2012, Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands presented the Netherlands Climate Medal (for […]

Message on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Climate Centre Today, 28 June […]

In this issue, there is a special report on the foundation day of the regional […]

In 2011 and 2012, the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) was intensifying its drive to […]

IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Weather Events (SREX) Kenya Red Cross […]

The Pledge Project  2008-11 – Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia The Netherlands Pledge Project was born in 2007. […]

The South East European Forum on Climate Change has published the third issue of its SEE Climate Forum […]

Unpredictable rainfall in parts of Côte d’Ivoire cost some farmers over half of their harvest […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday released the full Special Report on Managing the […]

The apocalyptic vision presented on cinema screens of a world devoid of food (Hunger Games) […]

A growing literature reveals how climate change affects women first and worst, and respond to […]

KIGALI, 29 February 2012 (IRIN) – Drought is likely to return to Somalia and other […]

Through a new call of proposals, the Climate Centre, START and UNISDR are seeking to […]

“When should we plant?” is a question increasingly being asked by small farmers in sub-Saharan […]

Gaurav Ray, an Australian RC funded IFRC DM delegate in Bangladesh for the past couple […]

In the past five years, “resilience” (the ability to absorb shocks and recover) has become […]

At the 30th International Conference of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement a series of […]

Content is made up of GVs and Interviews. Go here to watch.

New Climate Centre team members Departure of program officer Lisette Braman Launch of the Summary for […]

Failure to reach a binding agreement to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions at this week’s […]

The 2006–11 Preparedness for Climate Change Programme, initiated by the Climate Centre and implemented with the […]

The IPCC has released the Summary for Policy Makers of the new Special Report on […]

In light of the latest report summary from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), […]

This has been an eventful year for natural calamities – drought in the Horn of […]

Here is a good example of RC youth volunteers creating a rangers programme to address climate change […]

The Uganda Red Cross Society on September 30, 2011 handed over a disaster risk reduction […]

Climate Change: Take Action Now! A guide to supporting the local actions of children and […]

A new, interactive users’ guide to tools for climate and development planning has just been […]

The Proceedings of the Third Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and […]

Contributing to the Great Green Wall Initiative Africa  Preparedness for Climate Change Programme successfully wrapped […]

Last March, IIED and BCAS organised the Fifth International Conference on Community Based Adaptation (CBA5) […]

There are a lot of questions around climate change, climate change adaptation, and how to […]

Please download here Early Warning -> Early Action: A Regional Guideline for Effective Engagement in […]

  This guide is designed to help National Societies to plan and develop public awareness […]

Forecasts can play an invaluable role when used properly in helping humanitarian agencies and governments […]

This eight-part series, which premiered on BBC World News, explores the impact of climate change […]

The second phase of the Climate Centre’s programme to help National Societies address the humanitarian […]

Recently CLIMACTION’s focal point Mr Asadul Haque Pomiee and his team contacted with Islamic Foundation […]

FAQ Climate Risk Management Partners for Resilience  Experts Workshop on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation for […]

Newly developed Partners for Resilience leaflet setting out the background, aims and unique character of […]

A guide to supporting the local actions of children and young people, with special emphasis […]

An operational research on dengue fever prevention in Vietnam. Download the leaflet here

The 2010 World Resources Report (product of a 20-year partnership among UNEP, UNDP, the World […]

Geneva – Some 373 natural disasters killed over 296,800 people in 2010, affecting nearly 208 […]

Living from the land and ocean requires keen observation of nature and changes in weather […]

COP16 marked progress, but a lot needs to be done to prevent the climate catastrophe […]

On 27-28 July 2010, representatives from the Red Cross Red Crescent and the Chinese government […]

IFRC: Cancun, 11 December 2010 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in […]

After facilitating two game-based climate change sessions by Climate Centre staff members yesterday at the UN Climate […]

As part of its communication work in support of the World Disasters Report 2010 — […]

Climate change youth update from Red Crescent and Red Cross Youth from COP16 Young volunteers […]

Cancun/Geneva (WMO). The year 2010 is almost certain to rank in the top 3 warmest […]

The UN Climate conference COP 16 in Cancun (Mexico) that began on 29 November, will […]

Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (VCA) uses various participatory tools to gauge people’s exposure to and […]

Current La Nina brings increased risks of floods, droughts and tropical cyclones Review of the […]

In line with the commitments made in the 2009 Solferino Youth Declaration, the IFRC is […]

The IFRC has compiled a communication package for the UNFCCC COP 16 climate conference. The following documents […]

“Those traditional crops like rice, potatoes, wheat, maize, which were doing well decades ago are […]