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World Weather Attribution (WWA) scientists Friday said the lethally strong winds that battered western Europe in Storms Eleanor and Friederike in [...]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday, together with other photos from Cox’s Bazar by Jess [...]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of InsideClimate News. It has been edited slightly here for length.) [...]

Zambia last week became the latest country to embrace the forecast-based financing (FbF) model as a potential component of its [...]

The three-day Cities and Climate Change Science Conference that aimed to “inspire the next frontier of research focused on the [...]

March sees the start of the peak flood-season in the Peruvian rain forest, and it can leave remote Amazon communities cut [...]

(A press release, including media contacts, on the Red Cross response to the European cold wave appeared earlier today on [...]

(A version of this story appeared first in French last month on the website of the Haitian Red Cross.) The [...]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BRACED project websites. The ICRC said last month [...]

Children who fled violence in Myanmar and walked or travelled by boat to safety in Bangladesh “are now surviving in [...]

(This report is now being published on partner websites; it was posted on the Climate Centre site today, along with [...]

The IFRC today released US$ 277,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to enable the Mongolian Red Cross Society (MRCS) [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today in the New Zealand Herald. It has been edited slightly here for length only. [...]

(A version of this story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) The ninth session of the World [...]

The United Arab Emirates yesterday said at the 2018 World Government Summit in Dubai that the IFRC will join its [...]

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

The UN Security Council last week said it recognized the impact of climate change, ecological changes and other factors on [...]

Arguing that disasters can wipe out development gains and are being exacerbated by climate change, population growth, unplanned urbanization, degradation [...]

Teams from the French Red Cross have been assisting Parisians evacuated from their homes as a swollen River Seine rose [...]

The Netherlands-based IKEA Foundation is donating 10 million euros to assist Red Cross ‘early warning early action’ through innovative preparedness [...]

A panel at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos yesterday heard a call for two disparate groups to [...]

The IFRC said today that with well over half of Mongolia now facing at least a ‘high risk’ of a [...]

The IFRC on Thursday published a detailed road map for its work in Africa over the next few years, summarizing [...]

Five-thousand households in Kenya’s Garissa county have adopted improved farming and animal husbandry techniques as well as crop diversification and [...]

For the second year in a row environmental issues dominate the survey of the perception of risk in the Global Risks Report [...]

Bangladeshis were this week recovering from a severe cold snap that claimed the lives of at least 27 people and [...]

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 [...]