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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 [...]

The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) on Thursday announced its 2015 ‘Climate Think Tank Rankings’ – a global assessment [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the website of the Red Cross EU Office in Brussels. It has been [...]

The IFRC earlier this month called for “an immediate scale-up in response” to the spread of yellow fever in Angola [...]

(This story is a press release that was issued by the IFRC earlier today from Geneva and Kuala Lumpur and includes [...]

(This web story, edited here for length, appeared first yesterday on the website of the World Meteorological Organization, an IFRC [...]

Human-caused climate change played an important role in the heavy rains that pounded parts of France late last month, scientists with World [...]

(This blog by IFRC operations manager Jesper Fridolf, from the Swedish Red Cross, edited slightly here for length, was published [...]

Scientists are this weekend urgently analysing whether climate change made the latest flood disaster in Europe more likely.  France and [...]

(This story was first published earlier today on the Asia Pacific area of www.ifrc.org.) For the past year the International [...]

A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) earlier this month looks at the impact of climate stresses [...]

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Friday said the coming Atlantic hurricane season from June to November would probably [...]

The IFRC’s science partners, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), earlier this month issued a forecast of a [...]

Social protection programmes can build people’s “anticipatory, adaptive and absorptive” capacity to resist climate shocks and disasters, according to a new paper [...]

(This article, reproduced here under Creative Commons, appeared first yesterday on the website of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.) [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release published first earlier today on ifrc.org.) The World Humanitarian Summit draws to a [...]

(This is the text of an address by IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy at today’s high-level leader’s roundtable, Natural [...]

(This story appeared earlier today on ifrc.org and has been slightly edited here for length.) Just before Cyclone Roanu slammed [...]

The head of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Laura Frigenti, Friday told the closing session of the 2016 Understanding [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement has affirmed its key messages to the World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) in Istanbul, which [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued today.) The IFRC today announced a major 110-million Swiss franc, four-year initiative [...]

Two of the most influential figures in the sector yesterday called for a more “forward-looking humanitarian system that takes preparedness [...]

(This story is a press release issued today by the UK-based Climate and Development Knowledge Network, including a full technical [...]

The major global ‘public-private’ conference announced at COP 21 last year to gather leaders from “government, business, cities and localities, [...]

The third meeting took place at the UN campus in Bonn last week of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw [...]

The Katakwi district branch of the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) Friday carried out another humanitarian distribution, for just over [...]

The US Climate Prediction Center and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) last month jointly issued a [...]

The tenth-anniversary Community-Based Adaptation Conference – ‘CBA10’ (proceedings) – ended yesterday on the Dhaka campus of the Independent University, Bangladesh, [...]

(This opinion piece appeared first Saturday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dr Maarten van Aalst is Director [...]

(This is a press release issued by the IFRC Friday shortly after the signing of the COP 21 global agreement [...]

The text of the historic global agreement thrashed out at the COP 21 UN climate talks in Paris last December was [...]

Planning for the operational roll-out of forecast-based financing (FbF) in Bangladesh is now at an advanced stage, with an established [...]

The text of the historic global agreement thrashed out at the COP 21 UN climate talks in Paris last December opens [...]

(This article, edited slightly here for length, first appeared on the Understanding Risk website. Through the Global Framework for Climate Services [...]

(This is a press release issued by the IFRC in Nairobi on Saturday. Its full appeals for Southern African nations affected [...]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Cameroon Red Cross and the [...]

A cluster of agency reports from the field over the past week, including the IFRC, has emphasized that El Niño [...]

The World Bank Group yesterday unveiled a new action plan on climate designed to accelerate efforts to tackle climate change over [...]

Aerial surveys between Cairns, in northern Queensland, and Papua New Guinea show the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing the “worst, [...]

(This story is a press release, slightly edited here for length, from the The Nature Conservancy issued yesterday as it [...]

The Ghana Education Service and Red Cross and the Climate Centre earlier this month joined forces with UNICEF, Boston, Massachusetts-based [...]

The World Meteorological Organization – which today marks the anniversary of the 1950 convention establishing the WMO – says last [...]