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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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]

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

(This story was updated on 21 April after confirmation of Sir John Houghton’s COVID diagnosis.) Sir John Houghton, the British [...]

The Climate Centre today launches a minisite offering a comprehensive set of tools and assistance for individuals and teams utilizing [...]

New research on climate impacts and global biodiversity published last week in the journal Nature suggests that its collapse could [...]

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

A series of three new feature-length documentary films on PfR’s work in the Philippines, commissioned by the Netherlands Red Cross, [...]

The UN today launched its Words into Action publication that involved the IFRC as one of its advisory members and includes [...]

The IFRC yesterday issued an “imminent crisis” cash grant of just over 50,000 Swiss francs from its Disaster Relief Emergency [...]

(To help maximize the audience for this crucial Movement appeal we’re cross-posting the joint ICRC-IFRC press release announcing it yesterday [...]

The long-term response to coronavirus “must tackle habitat and biodiversity loss,” according to the Executive Director of the United Nations [...]

United Nations agencies have this year coupled two special days to highlight that one of the biggest impacts of climate [...]

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

(In a blog that appeared first on the Climate Home website last week, IIED Director Andrew Norton argued that if [...]

There are now not one but two very compelling reasons to “fly less”, as the new wisdom is handily summed [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva.)  It is almost exactly a [...]

A month-long multimedia exhibition graphically illustrating both climate impacts in the developing world and potential solutions offered by the Netherlands-based [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement late last month published details of its collective ambitions on climate, saying it “has [...]

Climate change increased the chance of the “extreme fire weather” witnessed in Australia over the past few months by at [...]

(Note to media: After one of the worst fire seasons in decades in Australia, with fires destroying homes and ecosystems, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

(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 [...]

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

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