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The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre yesterday sent out invitations to an international scientific meeting in Nairobi on climate-risk [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The IFRC press release on its [...]

The Togolese and German Red Cross, the Climate Centre and other partners yesterday shared in the ‘Edge of Government Award’ [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Friday.) Prolonged and worsening drought conditions across Somalia, Ethiopia [...]

With temperatures in the latest potentially lethal heatwave forecast to remain in the mid-40s Celsius this weekend, the Australian Red [...]

(This story appeared first Tuesday on the ECMWF website. It has been edited here for length.) A collaboration between scientists [...]

The world’s wetlands – natural buffers against storms, floods and droughts – are being lost at a rate of one [...]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday and has been edited slightly here for length. KRCS [...]

The UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) yesterday published a new strategy to focus on economic development in the [...]

Two more countries – in the southern hemisphere on opposite sides of the Pacific rim – have reported modern-era temperature [...]

Europe is facing a future of rising sea levels and worse heatwaves, floods, droughts and storms under climate change, the [...]

With about half of Kenya now affected by drought, the Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Dr [...]

Using data compiled by US and British agencies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday confirmed 2016 was the hottest year [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Governments need to step up efforts in [...]

Europe’s severe cold wave, which last week led the IFRC to urge people across the continent to protect themselves against [...]

Extreme-weather events are now the top global risk in terms of ‘likelihood’ over the next ten years, according to the [...]

(This story, edited slightly here for length, first appeared on the IFRC news site on Friday.) A three-year project to [...]

The Fagnavodrevo project in Madagascar’s north-west Sofia region is being implemented by the Malagasy Red Cross (MRC) and supported by [...]

IT SHOULD BE an uncontroversial statement of fact that individuals and organizations with a stake in the humanitarian impacts of [...]

This is our snapshot of the climate-related humanitarian events of 2016, through the eyes of the Red Cross Red Crescent [...]

A new collection of studies highlights the role of climate change and the strong El Niño on individual extreme events [...]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the International Federation’s news site.) The German government – a major backer of forecast-based [...]

The forecast-based financing (FbF) project in Peru – implemented by the Peruvian Red Cross and supported by the German Federal [...]

The Dutch Foreign Minister, Bert Koenders, yesterday said water- and climate-related security problems belong on the UN Security Council’s agenda [...]

The IFRC’s forecasting partners at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) now say oceanic and atmospheric conditions [...]

A inter-agency forum in the Philippine capital, Manila, on forecast-based financing (FbF) and emergency preparedness for climate risks has called [...]

(This feature story appeared first last week on the website of the World Bank. It has been edited here for [...]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Marrakech and Geneva on Friday. It has been edited [...]

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 [...]