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This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading medical journal, says the last [...]

The annual Development and Climate Days meeting was held virtually yesterday and today as one of two parallel events to [...]

This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading medical journal, says the last [...]

Data issued last month by Public Health England puts at 2,556 the “total cumulative all-cause excess mortality” across the three [...]

(This interview with former Climate Centre intern Hannah Sizelove appeared first last month on the website of the Watson Institute [...]

The Climate Centre is this month inviting contributions (here) – letters, drawings, poems and art works – from around the [...]

(This story appeared first in the Bangkok Post last week and on the IFRC news site. It has been slightly [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva earlier today.) Global efforts to tackle climate change [...]

(A full version of this article appeared earlier this month in the online magazine of FMO, the Netherlands Entrepreneurial Development [...]

A new flagship report detailing a decade of work in 11 countries by the Partners for Resilience alliance was symbolically [...]

The UN yesterday said it had won Green Climate Fund (GCF) support for a new programme worth nearly US$ 50 [...]

An international group of scientists have detailed the process by which they have been able to generate “numerical results actionable [...]

Linking humanitarian action with social protection could provide an opportunity to reach those most at risk from climate change and [...]

(Vietnam’s recent struggle against a back-to-back series of deadly floods and storms can be tracked through four press releases issued [...]

(This story appeared first last week on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited here for [...]

Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense with climate change “and have serious and potentially life-threatening impacts on human health, [...]

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by the UN, the World Bank, [...]

Sweden earlier this week detailed two new climate-related initiatives intended to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable people faced [...]

(This story is a press release issued yesterday by the IFRC in Pretoria to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day; [...]

One in three people globally are still not adequately covered by early-warning systems, despite extreme weather and climate events increasing [...]

Extreme-weather events have increased dramatically and now dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century, according to a UN report [...]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited slightly here [...]

(The photos from Bangladeh and India used in the Vice Media story can be downloaded from the IFRC’s shaRED platform [...]

At last week’s 6th International Climate Adaptation Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the IFRC (Climate Centre) jointly hosted a [...]

“During the Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing, awareness programmes on climate change were put on hold,” says Astrid, a young Red [...]

Key messages from the ICRC’s recent report on conflict and climate, When Rain Turns to Dust, featured at last week’s [...]

(This story is a press release first issued by the IFRC in Geneva and New York yesterday. It has been [...]

The Climate Centre earlier this month remotely contributed technical and humanitarian input at a two-day training workshop in the Solomon [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today. It has been edited slightly here for length.) Since the [...]

(This contribution from IFRC President Francesco Rocca first aired on Al Jazeera English on Saturday. It has been slightly edited [...]

(This story is an ICRC statement issued yesterday in Geneva in English and French, together with b-roll video.) While Covid-19 [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva Friday; it has been edited here for time [...]

Smoke from the wildfires in the western United States has reached the Netherlands, according to Dutch climate scientist Geert Jan [...]

Building capacity virtually is here to stay, and interactive methodologies can keep participants virtually on their feet, ensuring organic learning! [...]

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday thanked the Norwegian, Finnish, Italian and British Red Cross and Climate Centre core organizers for [...]

“There are many ways to serve. But maybe one good way is to use cartoons that are a very creative [...]

By Maarten Van Aalst, Climate Centre Director IT’S PERHAPS a bit of a cliché to call something historic almost before [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Geneva. It has been edited here for time references) Climate:Red, [...]

The IFRC late last month raised the maximum grant for forecast-based action within the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) mechanism [...]

Without determined and ambitious action on climate, 200 million people a year could need international humanitarian assistance because of climate-related [...]

New research will make it easier to predict the path of some of the world’s most powerful storms, helping communities [...]

The online information hub for humanitarian cash assistance hosted by the British Red Cross has now been expanded to include a [...]

July 2020 was the hottest month ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, breaking the previous record set in July last [...]

Registration is open for the Climate:Red Summit on 9 and 10 September, the IFRC Solferino Academy announced on Wednesday. On [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur.) Monsoon floods in South Asia are [...]

The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and 30 global partners including the Climate Centre today announced the formation [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Budapest and Geneva that also included tips on how to [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu and Geneva) A humanitarian crisis [...]

Further progress has been made in discussions involving Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs, several other ministries and [...]

UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has welcomed the forecast-based action that recently enabled several UN agencies to undertake anticipatory interventions [...]

Last month’s eruption of the Sangay volcano in Ecuador provided Red Cross volunteers with an opportunity to test their improvised [...]