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The 7th Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks – jointly hosted by OCHA and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation [...]

(This is an edited version of a story first published by the Netherland Red Cross 510 data team and the [...]

(This statement was issued by the American Red Cross last Wednesday, the eve of President Biden’s two-day leaders’ summit on [...]

The IFRC and its specialist reference centre on climate today launched a new strategy for youth-led climate action, aimed at [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kabul, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva yesterday. It has been edited here [...]

All key indicators in the State of the Global Climate 2020 report, issued by the WMO today, “highlight relentless, continuing [...]

(A version of this story appeared first on the IFRC website for disaster law on Wednesday.) A new report looking [...]

Social protection (SP) can be key to protecting vulnerable groups and helping them build resilience to climate risks. Four new Climate [...]

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, the Dutch meteorologist who developed the KNMI Climate Explorer and is a partner of the Climate [...]

The UK COP 26 presidency said Friday it had been “heartened by participants’ show of unity to address the collective [...]

The UK yesterday hosted the online Climate and Development Ministerial meeting, gathering governments and other stakeholders to identify next steps [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) A new report reveals 12.6 [...]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the SERVIR website.) Disconnects between forecasters and decision-makers worldwide can often result in [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent is today launching a set of resources including videos for National Society branches and other community-based [...]

The IFRC yesterday released a new video detailing the work of its reference centres, hosted by National Societies worldwide and [...]

A new report aims to encourage countries to make progress “on the mutually supportive objectives of resilience to climate change [...]

Global warming is distorting forecasts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific – one of the most important [...]

The UN Friday published an interim report it describes as a “red alert” for the planet, showing that nations must [...]

The European Commission last week adopted a new strategy on adaptation which it says sets out “the pathway to prepare [...]

The Climate Centre earlier this week jointly hosted an expert workshop on responding to climate impacts in support of the [...]

The ICRC Tuesday told the UN Security Council that assistance to the most vulnerable “must go beyond hard security measures [...]

“Country assessments in Afghanistan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan on linkages between climate and health and livelihoods are something [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre and the Boston-based Friedman School and Feinstein International Center today announced the appointment [...]

(This article appeared first on Tuesday on the Africa Portal website.) By Mohammed Omer Mukhier-Abuzein, IFRC Regional Director for Africa [...]

The US-based Nature Conservancy last week launched a major new guide to strategies for nature-based coastal resilience, including input from [...]

Hundreds of representatives from governments, UN, development and humanitarian agencies, universities, and other branches of civil society yesterday attended a [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy. [...]

“It’s so important to invest in early warning and early action because all the analysis shows it provides the best [...]

by Maarten van Aalst, Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague The global summit on climate adaptation (CAS [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva today.) The IFRC today announced a major expansion of one [...]

NASA last week joined the Anticipation Hub created by the German Red Cross, the IFRC and the Climate Centre with [...]

The Earth’s surface temperature in 2020 equalled 2016 as the warmest on record, the US space agency NASA said yesterday, [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.) Rescue and relief efforts have been ramped [...]

Twenty-twenty equalled the warmest year ever recorded globally, 2016, and it was the warmest on record for Europe, the EU’s [...]

The Climate Action report is out! The Climate Centre is often asked by National Societies and others, “We want to [...]

(This story is based on a press release and departmental text issued by the IFRC late last month.) The IFRC [...]

A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2020 through the eyes of the Climate Centre news [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today of the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Asia-Pacific has faced a record number [...]

An expert meeting on Social protection in a changing climate was held virtually in late November to “discuss big ideas [...]

The IFRC Friday launched its Global Plan 2021 detailing its ten-year Strategy 2030 that has climate change at its centre, [...]

(This is a longer version of the story that appeared on the IFRC website earlier today; a story on its [...]

The Climate Centre is joining a new project launched last week bringing together leaders in research on climate change and [...]

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 [...]