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REAP: Most crisis funding remains unplanned with ‘very small amounts’ going to early action

REAP: Most crisis funding remains unplanned with ‘very small amounts’ going to early action
22 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) Monday released a report on “commitments, trends, challenges and opportunities” [...]

IFRC calls for ‘bold response’ to climate crisis

IFRC calls for ‘bold response’ to climate crisis
21 June 2022

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday paid tribute to volunteers and staff of National Societies in responding to multiple challenges [...]

Francesco Rocca re-elected IFRC president at ‘unprecedented moment of risk for the world’

Francesco Rocca re-elected IFRC president at ‘unprecedented moment of risk for the world’
20 June 2022

By the Climate Centre Francesco Rocca was yesterday elected to a second four-year term as IFRC president by representatives of [...]

IFRC’s first global Heat Action Day coincides with early heatwaves in France, Spain and the US

IFRC’s first global Heat Action Day coincides with early heatwaves in France, Spain and the US
14 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC today launched its first global Heat Action Day as the American, French and Spanish [...]

ICRC: Yemen’s ancient honey industry at risk from combination of conflict and climate change

ICRC: Yemen’s ancient honey industry at risk from combination of conflict and climate change
13 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The ICRC says armed conflict and climate change are threatening the production of honey in Yemen, [...]

WMO: Stubborn La Niña forecast to persist

WMO: Stubborn La Niña forecast to persist
10 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization today put at about 70 per cent the chances of the current [...]

Researching resilience to zoonotic and climate-related health threats in Europe

Researching resilience to zoonotic and climate-related health threats in Europe
10 June 2022

By the Climate Centre A new inter-agency research effort, supported by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme, intended to strengthen [...]

Bonn climate meeting opens as UN food agencies say weather extremes are ‘new normal’ threatening millions more

Bonn climate meeting opens as UN food agencies say weather extremes are ‘new normal’ threatening millions more
7 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The annual Bonn climate change conference began yesterday, the same day the UN’s two major food [...]

Red Cross Red Crescent at Stockholm+50: Environmental crises as humanitarian crises

Red Cross Red Crescent at Stockholm+50: Environmental crises as humanitarian crises
6 June 2022

By the Climate Centre A joint statement Friday by hosts Sweden and Kenya at the end of the Stockholm+50 conference [...]

Angola faces most damaging drought in 40 years

Angola faces most damaging drought in 40 years
2 June 2022

By the Climate Centre The three southernmost provinces of Angola are suffering a fifth consecutive year of drought, decimating crops, [...]

IFRC, WWF call for nature-based solutions to alleviate climate crisis and save lives

IFRC, WWF call for nature-based solutions to alleviate climate crisis and save lives
2 June 2022

By the Climate Centre A joint report by the IFRC and WWF says nature-based solutions could reduce the intensity of [...]

Iraq sees more than one heavy sandstorm a week

Iraq sees more than one heavy sandstorm a week
1 June 2022

By the Climate Centre Iraqi Red Crescent volunteers have again been providing health advice and facemasks to the public (photo) [...]

‘Every budget, every program, every private-sector initiative must be risk-informed and resilient’

‘Every budget, every program, every private-sector initiative must be risk-informed and resilient’
30 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The 2022 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction ended on Saturday in Bali, Indonesia “at a [...]

Finding resilience to city heat in South Asia

Finding resilience to city heat in South Asia
29 May 2022

By the UK Met Office (This story appeared first last week on the Met Office website. It has been edited [...]

US forecasters predict above-average Atlantic hurricane season – the 7th in a row

US forecasters predict above-average Atlantic hurricane season – the 7th in a row
27 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC Regional Office for the Americas is organizing its regular preparatory conference (register) for an [...]

IPCC co-chair Debra Roberts gets honorary doctorate at NL University of Twente

IPCC co-chair Debra Roberts gets honorary doctorate at NL University of Twente
26 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The highly respected South African climate scientist, Debra Roberts, who jointly leads the IPCC’s Working Group [...]

All-time high of nearly 60m IDPs worldwide. The biggest single cause? Extreme weather

All-time high of nearly 60m IDPs worldwide. The biggest single cause? Extreme weather
25 May 2022

By the Climate Centre (The Anticipation Hub last week carried a summary of a Climate Centre paper on harnessing anticipatory [...]

Niger: multi-million dollar appeal follows early action for food security

Niger: multi-million dollar appeal follows early action for food security
25 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC has now launched an appeal totalling just over 5 million US dollars to help [...]

Lethal India and Pakistan heatwave ‘30 times more likely because of climate change’

Lethal India and Pakistan heatwave ‘30 times more likely because of climate change’
24 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The long-running early heatwave in India and Pakistan “would have been extraordinarily rare without human-induced climate [...]

Climate and anticipatory action among nine focuses at humanitarian partnership weeks

Climate and anticipatory action among nine focuses at humanitarian partnership weeks
23 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The 2022 Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week ended on Friday, held in hybrid format with nearly [...]

Blog – Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience: looking back (and forwards)

Blog – Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience: looking back (and forwards)
23 May 2022

By Dorothy Heinrich and Fleur Monasso, Climate Centre, Montreal/The Hague It’s time to say goodbye to Science for Humanitarian Emergencies [...]

Creativity, agency, urgency in cities: the Rise Africa Action Festival

Creativity, agency, urgency in cities: the Rise Africa Action Festival
20 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The three-day annual Rise Africa Action Festival starts on Monday, with participants at “the tension points [...]

The ‘day-to-day face of climate change’ 2021

The ‘day-to-day face of climate change’ 2021
18 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The WMO’s State of the Global Climate 2021 report, released today, says four key climate change [...]

G7 ministers commit to ‘as anticipatory a humanitarian system as possible’

G7 ministers commit to ‘as anticipatory a humanitarian system as possible’
17 May 2022

By the Climate Centre G7 foreign ministers Friday called for a “paradigm shift toward more efficient, effective and forward-looking humanitarian [...]

Climate change intensified rain that led to flood ‘catastrophe of enormous proportions’ in South Africa

Climate change intensified rain that led to flood ‘catastrophe of enormous proportions’ in South Africa
16 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The probability of an event like the rainfall that resulted in last month’s flood disaster in [...]

IFRC issues new operational framework for anticipatory action

IFRC issues new operational framework for anticipatory action
10 May 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC has set itself the goal of allocating a quarter of its Disaster Relief Emergency [...]

WMO: 50% chance of global temperature increase touching 1.5°C in next five years

WMO: 50% chance of global temperature increase touching 1.5°C in next five years
10 May 2022

By the Climate Centre A new climate update issued yesterday by the World Meteorological Organization says there’s an increasing likelihood, [...]

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28 April 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC this week announced the publication of its new e-learning course Red Alert: What is [...]

‘The world needs to do more to incorporate disaster risk in how we live, build and invest’

‘The world needs to do more to incorporate disaster risk in how we live, build and invest’
26 April 2022

By the Climate Centre The UN’s flagship Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 was published today: it says [...]

Red Cross ‘right in the middle of the response’ to KwaZulu-Natal floods

Red Cross ‘right in the middle of the response’ to KwaZulu-Natal floods
19 April 2022

By the Climate Centre (21 April update: the IFRC has now issued an emergency cash grant of more than 330,000 [...]

Conflict, climate, displacement, inflation causing largely unnoticed food-security crisis in Africa, says ICRC

Conflict, climate, displacement, inflation causing largely unnoticed food-security crisis in Africa, says ICRC
13 April 2022

By the Climate Centre Nearly 350 million Africans – more than a quarter of the continent’s entire population – are [...]

Lethal rain and floods from Southern Africa storms made worse by climate change

Lethal rain and floods from Southern Africa storms made worse by climate change
12 April 2022

By the Climate Centre Climate change increased the rainfall from back-to-back devastating storms that affected especially Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique [...]

‘A place that used to be alive’: the reality of climate impacts on the world’s coastlines

‘A place that used to be alive’: the reality of climate impacts on the world’s coastlines
7 April 2022

By the Climate Centre Every night the waves eat away at the sand under the foundation of his house in [...]

‘It’s now or never if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C’

‘It’s now or never if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C’
5 April 2022

By the Climate Centre The report from the IPCC’s third working group looking at ways climate change can be mitigated [...]

IMF: Without adaptation Mideast and Central Asia face crippling losses from climate change

IMF: Without adaptation Mideast and Central Asia face crippling losses from climate change
5 April 2022

By the Climate Centre Climate change is inflicting crippling losses in the Middle East and Central Asia, with low-income and [...]

National Societies, climate action and the environment: an IFRC survey

National Societies, climate action and the environment: an IFRC survey
4 April 2022

By the Climate Centre IFRC survey results from nearly 70 National Societies show they are planning or implementing action on [...]

Climate science-humanitarian dialogue hears of ‘new era’ in perception of urgency

Climate science-humanitarian dialogue hears of ‘new era’ in perception of urgency
1 April 2022

By the Climate Centre The Egyptian and United Kingdom Missions to the United Nations in Geneva and the IFRC last [...]

Early Action: the State of Play 2021, measured by REAP

<i>Early Action: the State of Play 2021</i>, measured by REAP
31 March 2022

By the Climate Centre A new report from the IFRC-hosted Risk-informed Early Action Partnership aims to contribute to the evidence [...]

New EU advisory board on climate change includes Red Cross Red Crescent voice

New EU advisory board on climate change includes Red Cross Red Crescent voice
30 March 2022

By the Climate Centre The European Environment Agency last week appointed the 15 members of the European Scientific Advisory Board [...]

First European humanitarian forum flags ‘dramatic impact of climate change’

First European humanitarian forum flags ‘dramatic impact of climate change’
24 March 2022

By the Climate Centre The three-day European Humanitarian Forum, the first event of its kind, jointly organized by the French [...]

UN: In 5 years, everyone on Earth must be protected by early warning for extreme weather, climate change

UN: In 5 years, <u>everyone</u> on Earth must be protected by early warning for extreme weather, climate change
23 March 2022

By the Climate Centre An ambitious new UN target unveiled today on World Meteorological Day would see everyone on Earth [...]

Nearly half a million Kenyans to be helped in Red Cross drive against mosquito-borne disease

Nearly half a million Kenyans to be helped in Red Cross drive against mosquito-borne disease
23 March 2022

By the Climate Centre The IFRC today issued a humanitarian cash grant of just over 200,000 Swiss francs to help [...]

Climate-related disasters and child protection in South-East Asia

Climate-related disasters and child protection in South-East Asia
18 March 2022

By the Climate Centre A joint report by the IFRC Asia Pacific region and the Child Protection Area of Responsibility [...]

IFRC: 5 million more people in Americas in extreme poverty and exposed to climate and other disasters

IFRC: 5 million more people in Americas in extreme poverty and exposed to climate and other disasters
15 March 2022

By the Climate Centre Two years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, 5 million more people are in extreme [...]

Argentine Red Cross will help restore wetland ecosystem damaged by wildfires

Argentine Red Cross will help restore wetland ecosystem damaged by wildfires
9 March 2022

By the Climate Centre More than 10 per cent of the northern Argentine province of Corrientes has been badly affected [...]

Implementing cash transfers through social protection in Nepal

Implementing cash transfers through social protection in Nepal
7 March 2022

By Sajanika Sivanu and Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, Germany,and Alina Karki, Danish Red Cross, Nepal The Nepal Red Cross Society [...]

Catastrophic flooding in eastern Australia forces hundreds of thousands to evacuate

Catastrophic flooding in eastern Australia forces hundreds of thousands to evacuate
4 March 2022

By the Climate Centre The Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have this week been affected by intense [...]

IPCC scientists confirm climate change contributing to humanitarian crises worldwide

IPCC scientists confirm climate change contributing to humanitarian crises worldwide
28 February 2022

by the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva earlier today.) The IFRC today called for [...]

‘A flashing red light, an alarm for where we are today’

‘A flashing red light, an alarm for where we are today’
28 February 2022

By the Climate Centre (The full IPCC report and a special cartoon interpretation are now available on our website. The [...]

UN: Climate-related wildfire risk now touches even the Arctic

UN: Climate-related wildfire risk now touches even the Arctic
25 February 2022

by the Climate Centre Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, now faces a rising risk of wildfires, experts say [...]

IFRC calls for more investment in local climate action as European and African leaders meet

IFRC calls for more investment in local climate action as European and African leaders meet
18 February 2022

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi yesterday.) As parts of Southern Africa are reeling from the [...]