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The head of the IFRC’s Africa region, Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, told the International Federation’s principal side-event at the COP 22 [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC website.)  Amid spikes in dengue cases and the recent spread of [...]

The IFRC this week emphasized its support for the developing UN ‘blueprint for action’ on El Niño, and applauded the [...]

(Yesterday was Gender Day at COP 22 focusing on women as “leaders, innovators, and agents of the transformational change that…climate [...]

(The 2016 D&C Days event in Marrakech that ended on Sunday saw the first major engagement by the private sector in [...]

A workshop in Dar es Salaam last week brought together municipal authorities with multilateral partners including the World Bank, the [...]

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

Four agricultural cooperatives from semi-arid regions of Morocco joined forces to exhibit their wares to an international audience of development [...]

The two-day Development & Climate Days (‘D&C Days’) workshop over the middle weekend of UN climate talks got underway in Marrakech [...]

(As the UN climate talks in Marrakech approach their halfway mark with the traditional Development and Climate Days side-event weekend, Dr Maarten [...]

Representatives from the National Societies of Armenia, Georgia, Kenya, Malawi and Nepal gathered in Marrakech alongside COP 22 this week [...]

Governments of the world’s most disaster-prone region, Asia, should pursue a paradigm shift from disaster management to risk reduction “with [...]

The historic Paris agreement on the global climate enters into force today Friday, becoming legally binding on the 87 states [...]

New research published last month in the science journal Nature estimates that climate change from human activity nearly doubled the [...]

(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the IFRC news site. The latest news on the response to Typhoon Haima [...]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday said “a new era of climate reality” has dawned with global atmospheric carbon dioxide [...]

(This article appeared first on the website of the British Red Cross last Thursday 13 October, International Disaster Reduction Day, [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) States must do more to manage international support after [...]

Eradicating hunger and poverty must “go hand in hand” with rapid transformation of agriculture to cope with climate change, the [...]

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) last week said September had been “an exceptionally wet month over most of the [...]

US forecasters yesterday reinstated official ‘watch’ status for La Niña under the ENSO alert system; it was suspended last month [...]

The IFRC publishes its annual World Disasters Report 2016 today – International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) – arguing that lack of [...]

(This interview with Climate Centre Director Maarten van Aalst by Deutsche Welle’s Martin Kuebler was first published by DW yesterday. The IFRC has [...]

The UN announced Wednesday that the historic Paris agreement to address global climate change will enter into force on 4 [...]

(A version of this story by the IFRC’s Ika Koeck was first published yesterday on the IFRC website.) The Korean [...]

(Action to respond to disasters, prepare for them, and build resilience against shocks is finally coming together, argued Climate Centre [...]

(This story is a press release issued earlier today by the IFRC.) At the close of the high-level event on El [...]

The first major international conference on the science behind the 1.5°C climate ambition agreed at COP 21 in Paris last [...]

US forecasters earlier this month cancelled the official ‘watch’ status for La Niña under the ENSO alert system that had [...]

(A version of this story was first published last Friday on the IFRC’s news site. It is updated here to [...]

The Malawi Red Cross last week convened an all-day workshop in the capital, Lilongwe, to discuss the latest assessment report [...]

A joint study by scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the World Weather Attribution (WWA) [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform – known by its French acronym ‘PIROI’* – and the [...]

The IFRC today welcomed the ratification by China and the US of the Paris climate agreement, which brings its entry into [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the BRACED programme.) Picture this scenario: you are a development NGO worker [...]

South Africa’s met office this week said recovery from the El Niño-related drought currently affecting the country – along with [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent this weekend called for greater investment in community resilience so vulnerable families can better face [...]

(This story was published first yesterday by the IFRC, whose emergency appeal for just over US$3.5m to address food insecurity [...]

(This interview was published first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation – the Climate Centre’s BRACED partners.) From typhoons [...]

The IFRC yesterday issued an emergency grant of just under a quarter of a million US dollars to help the [...]

The Climate Centre last week joined the 12th ‘Atlantis’ Red Cross Red Crescent Mediterranean youth camp, held in Orahovica, Croatia. [...]

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) last week declared a “regional disaster” and launched an appeal for US$ 2.4 billion [...]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) – the IFRC’s forecasting partners – say the latest computer models show [...]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday said it would examine whether a reading of 54.0°C last Thursday taken in Mitrabah, [...]

Extreme heat as well as destructive rainfall made headlines around the world last week, with the town of Mitribah (graphic) [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Climate Centre’s BRACED partners. Alexander Matheou [...]

A report out earlier this week from the British government’s principal advisers on climate says the impacts of climate change [...]

The Vanuatu Meteorological Service (VMS) last week said its new, simpler map that plots cyclones using letters and numbers rather [...]

The three major Rome-based UN agencies specializing in food or agriculture this week called for combined efforts to tackle the [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC news site. The Climate Centre’s community resilience programme in Ethiopia’s Somali Region [...]

Recent operational experience from forecast-based financing humanitarian distributions in Africa and Asia was showcased by the Climate Centre at this [...]