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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 [...]

“Unusually heavy” monsoon rainfall and flooding affecting many parts of Asia has again highlighted the importance of national meteorological and [...]

(This story is an ICRC press release issued earlier today. The new report is accompanied by a photogallery and a [...]

A rise in zoonotic diseases that jump from animal hosts to humans is being driven by degradation of the natural [...]

IFRC writers Friday put forward a three-part framework for ensuring that recovery from the global Covid-19 pandemic leads to a “greener, [...]

The humanitarian implications of droughts are profound and far-reaching, but traditionally the humanitarian role has been to respond to the [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) Urgent early action is [...]

The Climate Centre today launches a new multimedia resource for the humanitarian sector, podcasts, with a detailed look at heatwaves [...]

(This article appeared first on Friday on the Project Syndicate comment website.) The world has been planning for the future [...]

The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, last week said there is “one crucial condition that must [...]

The International Energy Agency on Thursday presented a three-year plan for economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic that would “revitalise [...]

(A longer version of this article appeared last week as part of a series of blogs on epidemics on the [...]

The IFRC and Climate Centre today released their new City Heatwave Guide for Red Cross Red Crescent Branches, designed as [...]

The global NDC Partnership – launched during COP 22 in Marrakech in 2016 – last week announced the make-up of [...]

(This story summarizes a master’s thesis by Sabrina Desroches which is also a Climate Centre contribution to Nepal’s forecast-based financing [...]

Lack of good historical observations and verifiable climate models as well as a “significant bias in expertise” in favour of [...]

(A version of this story ran first last month on the website of Ireland’s University College Cork; it is also [...]

(A longer version of this story first ran earlier today on the GHHIN website.) An international network of experts on [...]

The World Meteorological Organization says it will later this year issue updated guidance on impact-based forecasting, based on recommendations from [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva on Wednesday, slightly edited here for time references. [...]

Farmers in Uganda’s Otuke district say climate-centred agricultural extension supported by CARE as part of the Partners for Resilience (PfR) [...]

The IFRC has been preparing for a major humanitarian response with Cyclone Amphan – described as one of the strongest [...]

On the Thursday before last, at pretty much the exact moment I was sitting down in the locked-down safety of [...]

An IFRC cartoonathon earlier this month drew more than 150 people from at least 60 countries to “explore transformation and change [...]

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain today formally invited all National Societies to join the fully virtual Climate:Red Summit on 9 [...]

New research published Friday in the journal Science Advances is believed to be the first to suggest that the sustained [...]

The PLACARD project – which is funded by the European Commission as part of its Horizon 2020 programme and closes [...]

(This story appeared first on Thursday the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) In the congested slums of Mumbai, coronavirus [...]

A new report on 2019 from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) shows that Asia was [...]

The sixth Pacific Island Climate Outlook Forum (PICOF) was held virtually late last month, ushering in “a new era” for [...]

The new Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID), published last week, says the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) around [...]

The 11th international Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin last week heard a renewed call from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres [...]

Fifty-one new reporting-points – including 24 in Kenya, the first there – came online for African rivers at the end [...]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today put forward six climate-related actions to shape recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and turn [...]