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By the Climate Centre Yolanda Kakabadse, a former Ecuadoran environment minister, was yesterday appointed to chair the Climate Centre’s board, [...]

by the Climate Centre The planet is in a “severe climate crisis” but humanity has never been better equipped to [...]

(The following statement on behalf of the 160 signatories to the charter was first posted by the IFRC and ICRC [...]

by the Climate Centre Major international donors gathered online yesterday to pledge new or renewed funding to the IFRC’s Disaster [...]

by the Climate Centre The presidents of the IFRC and ICRC yesterday called on world leaders to implement “a rapid [...]

by the Climate Centre The much-admired “inspirational” Dutch climate scientist Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, an analyst at the Royal Netherlands [...]

by the Climate Centre In Zambia in recent weeks, major components of the Netherlands-funded Response Preparedness II were handed over [...]

by the Climate Centre The latest in the series of Climate Engineering in Context conferences was held online all last [...]

by the ICRC (This video and story appeared first on the ICRC website earlier today; the high-resolution video can be [...]

by Sajanika Sivanu, Climate Centre, BonnA new Climate Centre brief reiterates support for the plan of action on climate-related loss [...]

By the Climate Centre (Jennifer Pipa’s complete testimony is available on the Senate committee website.) The American Red Cross Vice-President [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued from Geneva today. It has been edited slightly here [...]

by the ICRC (This story, video, including drone aerials, and still photos were released by the ICRC yesterday. The text [...]

by the Climate Centre The first-ever UN Food Systems Summit was held online yesterday to spur action on the UN’s [...]

By the Climate Centre As the high-level week of the General Assembly got underway in New York, the UK yesterday [...]

by the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in New York and Geneva earlier today. The report [...]

by the Climate Centre A special study by the BBC published yesterday has concluded that the number of extremely hot [...]

by the Climate Centre A new report from the World Bank out yesterday describes climate change as “an increasingly potent [...]

by Sheikh Khairul Rahaman, German Red Cross, Bangladesh (A longer version of this article appeared first on the Anticipation Hub; [...]

by the Climate Centre A set of infographics just launched by the UK-based global affairs think tank the Overseas Development [...]

by the Climate Centre More than 700 young people all over the world registered for the Red Cross Red Crescent [...]

by Audrey Oettli, IFRC-Child Protection Area of Responsibility Coordinator (A version of this blog first appeared on the Anticipation Hub earlier [...]

by the Climate Centre (This story is a summary of a NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information news story on [...]

by the Climate Centre Recorded disasters have multiplied by a factor of five over the past 50 years, driven by [...]

By the Climate Centre Fifty-five wildfires were still burning late last week in the Russia’s Yakutia republic in Siberia but [...]

Hurricane Ida, which rapidly intensified off the US Gulf of Mexico coast earlier this week, may have become the fifth [...]

The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS) – together with the government and the National Youth Council and with UNDP support [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva earlier today.) The recent devastating wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, floods and [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Algiers, Tunis and Beirut on Friday. It has been [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre last week finalized publication of eight country-briefs assessing the impacts of a changing [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva yesterday. It has been edited slightly here for [...]

by the Climate Centre “Extreme and very extreme conditions” conducive to wildfires continue to prevail over large areas of the [...]

by the Climate Centre The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said today that scientists are “observing changes in the Earth’s [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Kabul, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) by the IFRC The IFRC [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Ankara, Budapest and Geneva yesterday; it has been edited slightly here [...]

by the Climate Centre The UK is getting hotter, says the British Red Cross. As a result of climate change, [...]

(This story appeared first on the ICRC website yesterday.) by the ICRCConflict and the growing climate crisis are pushing herders [...]

by the Climate Centre The French Red Cross last week issued a second edition of its wide-ranging report focusing on [...]

by the Climate CentreThe Chinese authorities have launched “massive rescue and relief efforts” in response to record rainfall and floods [...]

How much can we say about climate’s role in a specific weather-event? Here’s what scientists, including Climate Centre Director Maarten [...]

by the Climate CentreMore than 100 people in Germany have died in what may be the most lethal flood disaster [...]

by the Climate Centre In the most pessimistic scenario for climate change, with emissions continuing to rise at the current [...]

by the Climate CentreLast week’s record-breaking heatwave in parts of the US and Canada would have been virtually impossible without [...]

by Sarah Cagann, American Red Cross, Portland, Oregon(This story appeared first last week on the Cascades Region Blog. The World [...]

by the Anticipation Hub, German Red Cross The three-day Africa Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action ended online last week [...]

(This article, by the IFRC’s Protection, Gender and Inclusion Unit, appeared first on the IFRC site on Monday. It has [...]

by Michelle Langrand and Pokuaa Oduro-Bonsrah, Geneva Solutions (This article appeared first on the Geneva Solutions website late last month; [...]

by the Climate CentreThe Canadian Red Cross has set up a family reunification helpline, open 12 hours a day, seven [...]

by the Climate Centre A new brief incorporating social protection responses to Covid-19, published this week, argues that “it is [...]

by the Climate CentreTogether with its partners in a multi-agency task force, the IFRC is committed to scaling up anticipatory [...]

(This story is a joint press release issued by the IFRC and ICRC earlier today. It has been edited slightly [...]