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Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense with climate change “and have serious and potentially life-threatening impacts on human health, [...]

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

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by the UN, the World Bank, [...]

Sweden earlier this week detailed two new climate-related initiatives intended to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable people faced [...]

One in three people globally are still not adequately covered by early-warning systems, despite extreme weather and climate events increasing [...]

(This story is a press release issued yesterday by the IFRC in Pretoria to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day; [...]

Extreme-weather events have increased dramatically and now dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century, according to a UN report [...]

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

(The photos from Bangladeh and India used in the Vice Media story can be downloaded from the IFRC’s shaRED platform [...]

At last week’s 6th International Climate Adaptation Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the IFRC (Climate Centre) jointly hosted a [...]

“During the Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing, awareness programmes on climate change were put on hold,” says Astrid, a young Red [...]

Key messages from the ICRC’s recent report on conflict and climate, When Rain Turns to Dust, featured at last week’s [...]

(This story is a press release first issued by the IFRC in Geneva and New York yesterday. It has been [...]

The Climate Centre earlier this month remotely contributed technical and humanitarian input at a two-day training workshop in the Solomon [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today. It has been edited slightly here for length.) Since the [...]

(This contribution from IFRC President Francesco Rocca first aired on Al Jazeera English on Saturday. It has been slightly edited [...]

(This story is an ICRC statement issued yesterday in Geneva in English and French, together with b-roll video.) While Covid-19 [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva Friday; it has been edited here for time [...]

Smoke from the wildfires in the western United States has reached the Netherlands, according to Dutch climate scientist Geert Jan [...]

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 [...]