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The United States Agency for International Development last week released four companion guides to the Climate Centre’s Heatwave Guide for [...]

An opinion piece in the New York Times Wednesday argued that, “If disasters take us by surprise, it’s because we [...]

There was a full house on Friday at the Belgian mission to the UN for the latest round of international [...]

This year’s session of the World Urban Forum (WUF 10) in Abu Dhabi, the tenth, centred on leveraging “culture, creativity [...]

The UK authorities this weekend had more individual flood warnings in force for England than at any time since records [...]

(This blog appeared first last week on the website of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative. It has been edited slightly [...]

The first of a series of expert meetings for 2020 on social protection options in various future-climate scenarios was held [...]

(This story appeared first on the ICRC blog site earlier today. It has been edited here for length.) Far from [...]

IPCC scientists Saturday ended a week-long consultation in Faro, Portugal on the Working Group II contribution – covering climate impacts, [...]

A new report from CARE International says the African continent was the setting for all but one of ten under-reported [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said last week the world needs to prepare for millions of people being [...]

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

Climate scientists from the World Weather Attribution group were this week beginning a study of possible climatic factors behind the [...]

(A version of this story appeared last month in the Vanuatu Daily Post.) A workshop held last month in the [...]

(This story is an ICRC press release issued earlier today in Addis Ababa.) Millions of people in the Horn of [...]

(This story appeared first last month in French and English on the news service of Agence France Presse; it has [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Ulaanbaatar, Geneva and Kuala Lumpur.) Forecasts of an extreme [...]

Official UK data released yesterday says there were just under 900 excess deaths during the summer heatwaves last year – [...]

A British Met Office forecast last month found the global average temperature for the coming year suggests 2020 will again [...]

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

Karimullah (his first name), 30, from Helmand province, is a single father with a six-year-old daughter who now lives in [...]

Senior figures in most of ten international humanitarian agencies, including the IFRC, have listed either climate change and violence against [...]

The last year of the decade saw many intense climate impacts, extreme heat to storms to floods, hitting everyone from [...]

The first national dialogue platform on forecast-based financing in Nepal was held in Kathmandu at the end of November, organized [...]

At the end of a second day of extra time at the COP 25 UN climate talks in Madrid, the [...]

(With ambitious efforts on climate adaptation and climate-smart development, we could reduce the number of people needing help, argues outgoing [...]

(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation earlier this week.) From young “climate warriors” planning [...]

A joint virtual event from COP 25 in Madrid and the 33rd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red [...]

The 17th annual Development and Climate Days took place in Madrid today, over a single day this year after the [...]

(This story has been edited mainly from today’s IFRC press releases issued in Geneva on the first day of its 2019 General [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday; it has been edited slightly here for length and [...]

(A longer version of this article and a video to accompany it appeared in the Nepali Times on 22 November; [...]

(A version of this story appeared earlier today on the FbF website of the German Red Cross.) Typhoon Kammuri, known [...]

Two new warnings this week from within the UN system suggest that the world will struggle to meet even the [...]

This year’s Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action in Berlin last week gathered more than 200 people from 40 [...]

(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the website Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Kenya will launch its first localized weather-modelling system [...]

New research from 35 global institutions published last week in one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, has [...]

(An earlier version of this blog was published to coincide with GEO Week 2019: Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Canberra, where the Australian [...]

Two grave warnings with major humanitarian implications published this week and last by international scientists have highlighted the seriousness of [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC jointly in Lusaka, Pretoria and Geneva last Tuesday.) A “catastrophic” [...]

(A version of this story first appeared on the website of the Pacific Meteorological Desk Partnership last Tuesday.) Forging stronger relationships [...]

Nearly 50 million people in Indonesia may have been affected by the country’s long-running drought this year, local media reports [...]

(Dr Michael Charles heads the IFRC Southern Africa Cluster. His article was first published by the Southern Times last month, [...]

The 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI), launched Tuesday by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, says that while the world has made [...]

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday called for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction to be at the centre of [...]

At least 130 people from 50 National Societies and two reference centres were this week in the Qatar capital, Doha [...]

The IFRC’s Governing Board (pictured) last week approved the organizations’s new Strategy 2030 that “proposes an urgent shift of leadership [...]

A new rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA) scientists at the end of last month says the extreme rainfall [...]

The IFRC last month joined forces with TikTok, regarded as the world’s leading social-media platform for short-form video, to engage [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release first issued Friday in Panama City and Geneva.) As dengue spreads rapidly across [...]

The latest in a series of series of background papers commissioned by the Global Commission on Adaptation to inform its [...]