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(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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

(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 [...]