By the Climate Centre Floods and storms in Asia caused the largest number of reported casualties and economic losses but [...]

By the Climate CentreAlready intense rainfall in El Niño years comparable to what the United Arab Emirates and Oman saw [...]

By the Climate Centre Heat-related deaths in Europe have increased by around 30 per cent in the past two decades, [...]

By the Climate Centre The extreme heatwave that hit the Sahel region in late March and early April and may [...]

By the Climate Centre  The UN-hosted Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d) has this month announced 3.5 million US dollars’ worth [...]

By the Climate Centre Official statements and media reports this week have highlighted the seriousness of the floods along the [...]

By Cornelia Scholz, Climate Centre, Dili (A version of this story appeared first on the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team website last [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday. It has been edited slightly here for length [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC and its specialist reference centre on climate are today outlining the full seven-stage “climate [...]

By Prisca Chisala, Malawi Red Cross Society Director of Programmes and climate champion (The climate action journey was launched at [...]

By the Climate Centre The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) was last week again warning of dangerous extreme heat, with temperatures [...]

By the Climate Centre Heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones upended everyday life for millions and inflicted [...]

By the Climate Centre A humanitarian operation supported by the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund was getting underway late last [...]

By the Climate Centre (This story is adapted from Tuesday’s press release by the World Meteorological Organization. The Copernicus Climate [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre last week trailed the forthcoming Movement strategy for disaster risk reduction in the [...]

By the Climate Centre Already-heavy monsoon rainfall like the event that led to deadly floods and landslides on the southern [...]

By the Climate Centre The Resilient Islands project for the Caribbean – a five-year initiative of the IFRC and The [...]

By the IFRC Warming oceans and El Niño have caused some storms to gain strength far more rapidly than predicted. [...]

By the Climate Centre Last year’s record-breaking trend has continued in 2024 with the hottest January on record, the World [...]

By the Climate Centre(Update: the IFRC Monday 12 February issued an emergency humanitarian cash grant of half a million Swiss [...]

By the Climate Centre Millions of people in California are facing serious flood threats and more torrential rainfall after a [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC and the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre today announced that Dr Aditya V. Bahadur [...]

By the Climate Centre Two new studies by World Weather Attribution scientists this week have demonstrated that climate change is [...]

By the Climate CentreClimate change, not El Niño, was the main driver of last year’s severe drought in the Amazon [...]

By the Climate Centre (This story is based on an IFRC press release issued in Lusaka, Nairobi and Geneva on [...]

By the Climate Centre Last year, as expected, was the warmest on record, and “by a huge margin”, the World [...]

By the Climate Centre The 2023 global mean temperature reached 1.48°C above pre-industrial levels, and this “strongly increased the intensity [...]

By the Climate Centre The UK Environment Agency yesterday called on the public to remain vigilant after the prolonged wet [...]

by the Climate Centre (A snapshot of the year’s events and our engagement with them through the eyes of the [...]

By the IFRC (This story is a news release that appeared first on the IFRC website earlier today.) The Secretary [...]

By the Climate Centre (A version of this story appeared first yesterday as an IFRC press release from Geneva.) American [...]

By Sajanika Sivanu, Climate Centre, TorontoThe Climate Centre has today – Universal Health Coverage Day – published a comprehensive overview [...]

By the Climate Centre The first call for proposals was announced recently for Pathways2Resilience (P2R) – a new EU-funded programme [...]

By the Climate Centre (A longer version of this story appeared first earlier today on the website of the International [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre today published a summary of key findings on loss and damage from the [...]

 By the Climate CentreThe IFRC yesterday formalized a cooperation agreement with ICLEI – the 2,500-strong global network of local and [...]

By the Climate Centre(A version of this story appeared first as an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dubai [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC and the Kenya Red Cross Society last week launched an emergency appeal for 18 [...]

By the IFRC(This story appeared first on the IFRC website earlier this month.)Planting, watering, weeding, harvesting and feeding the animals [...]

By Catherine-Lune Grayson, Head of Policy, and Amir Khouzam, Policy Adviser (This blog was first published on the ICRC website [...]

By the Climate Centre A study of last month’s record-breaking heat in Madagascar published today by World Weather Attribution scientists [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress towards better health, particularly in the most vulnerable [...]

By the Climate Centre(Since this story was posted and with floods affecting large parts of East Africa, the Uganda Red [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre and the Prudence Foundation today publish a scoping review of academic literature from [...]

By the Climate Centre A new study from World Weather Attribution scientists says lengthy and severe droughts like the one [...]

By the Climate Centre The current El Niño event that developed from July is expected to persist at least until [...]

By the Climate CentreDevelopment and Climate Days returns this year at COP 28 for the first in-person session since before [...]

By the IFRC Regional Office for Europe and the Climate Centre The IFRC has today published a new road map [...]