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Last year was Australia’s third-hottest since national records began in 1910, according to the annual climate statement from the Bureau [...]

Malawi government officials say they want to strengthen social protection and humanitarian systems to make them more sensitive to climate [...]

The final insurance bill for Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and other 2017 disasters, including the September earthquake in Mexico, [...]

(This story first appeared yesterday on the IFRC news site.)   Madagascar is on high alert as Tropical Cyclone Ava [...]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today said the organization’s number one focus in 2018 will be “to ensure early [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today, 26 December, on the IFRC news site, as did its emergency appeal. An update [...]

(This story apeared first yesterday on the news site of the Philippine Red Cross – it has been slightly edited [...]

A snapshot of climate-related humanitarian events of 2017 through the eyes of the Climate Centre news service. January The year began [...]

By Rebeka Ryvola, Climate Centre, New York On stage, the alluringly fragrant crostinis were sizzling away. Chef Pierre Thiam, in [...]

Partners for Resilience in Indonesia earlier this month supported a workshop in Jakarta convened by the Red Cross to discuss [...]

Scientists with the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group today said human-caused climate change made the record rainfall that fell on [...]

A major new global summit on climate was convened yesterday in the French capital by President Macron, UN Secretary-General Antonio [...]

The global launch of pilots of the Y-Adapt programme for engagement by young people in action on climate change took [...]

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) last month issued a new edition of its online ‘sourcebook’ on climate-smart approaches [...]

(A BRACED/PfR webinar today Tuesday, hosted by Saleemul Huq and Maarten van Aalst, covered many of the issues raised in this op-ed. A [...]

An e-learning course on climate adaptation by the IFRC’s Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Centre (CADRIM) – the first to [...]

The Ecuadorean Red Cross (ERC) on Wednesday became the second South American National Society after Peru’s to embrace the forecast-based [...]

The PMI* – the Red Cross in Indonesia – last week expanded its forecast training programme to include some first-response [...]

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

(*This story appeared first last week, before the GCECA was launched, on the Thomson Reuters website under the headline, ‘What [...]

IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy today described climate change as “a key driver of risk” in the modern world, [...]

Filipe Nainoca, Director-General of the Fiji Red Cross Society (FRCS), says Fijians have a neat way of summing up the climate [...]

The 15th Development and Climate Days (D&C Days) workshop ended in Bonn yesterday evening with a call from the chair [...]

The Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Andrew Norton, today told the Development and Climate Days [...]

The Development & Climate Days (‘D&C Days’) workshop over the middle weekend of UN climate talks began in Bonn today, and [...]

The president of the Kiribati Red Cross, Martin Tofinga (pictured, centre), today told a workshop at the Council of Delegates [...]

(This story appeared first last month on the IFRC website. It has been edited here for time references.) Esther Nabuti, [...]

The Climate Centre today publishes a detailed study of how the climate risk inherent in the 2015–16 El Niño was managed [...]

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

(This opinion piece appeared first earlier today on the Devex website.) This month, at a major global meeting in Antalya, [...]

Staying several steps ahead of possible health impacts from weather and climate was the focus of the third Pacific Islands [...]

The Lancet Countdown – the UK-based international medical journal’s annual assessment of links between climate change and human health – [...]

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

The Irish Red Cross (IRC) late yesterday said its emergency crews remained on stand-by after Storm Ophelia swept across the [...]

(This story is the third in our series today marking the 2017 International Day for Disaster Reduction.) John Lobor, Secretary General of [...]

(This article, written specially for International Day for Disaster Reduction, appeared first on the UNISDR website earlier this week. It’s [...]

(This blog, published for the International Day for Disaster Reduction, appeared first yesterday on the UK Met Office DRR website. [...]

A scientific workshop ended today in the Czech capital, Prague, intended to lay out modalities for the addition of climate [...]

The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) began working closely together on heatwave forecasts earlier [...]

(This story appeared first on Friday on the websites of Wetlands International and Partners for Resilience. It has been edited [...]

The Red Cross is this week continuing to assist with two major operations to get thousands of people out of [...]

Besides each other, we in the humanitarian sector rely, broadly speaking, on three professional communities to push action to address [...]

(This story is a press release issued earlier today by the IFRC jointly in Panama City and Geneva.) A global [...]

For the first time five United Nations agencies have joined forces to compile a new edition of the annual UN [...]

‘Seasonal forecasts’ that make general statements about above- or below-average total rainfall over the course of a season are not [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Montreal, last week finalized the outline of its next scientific assessment [...]

The global UK-supported programme known as ‘BRACED’ that builds resilience in parts of the Sahel, East Africa and Asia badly [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Geneva and Panama City. The International Federation also issued a [...]

(This story and report from Haiti appeared first earlier today on the IFRC website.) Red Cross societies across the Caribbean [...]

A case study published recently by the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) highlights partnership aspects of the inter-agency programme for [...]

The Togolese Red Cross (TRC) yesterday carried out its second humanitarian distribution in two weeks under forecast-based financing (FbF), as [...]