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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 [...]

February has set a record for being the most abnormally warm month since global records began in 1880. Data released [...]

(This story first ran earlier this week on ifrc.org. The opening a year ago of the of the UN World Conference [...]

A humanitarian distribution under Forecast-based Financing (FbF) has now been carried out in the rain-swept north of Peru, in only [...]

The Indonesian Red Cross – often known internationally by its Indonesian-language acronym PMI for Palang Merah Indonesia – is reviewing [...]

Government officials and risk-management experts on Friday called for health resilience to be placed at the heart of managing disaster [...]

Many thousands of animals could starve over the next few weeks on Mongolia’s vast steppe where mid-winter temperatures have fallen [...]

(This is an interview between the Wellcome Trust and Madeleine Thomson, Senior Research Scientist at IFRC science partners, the International Research [...]

The Peruvian Red Cross is assisting 2,000 families as part of its German-supported ‘Forecast-based Financing’ (FbF) programme as heavy rain [...]

Potentially dangerous heatwaves that normally strike once every two decades could become yearly events across 60 per cent of Earth’s [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Pretoria and distributed by the African Press Organization.) The IFRC [...]

With sustained winds of 230 kph and gusts of 325 kph – capable of blowing away houses, uprooting trees and [...]

The current Pacific El Niño phenomenon that has been linked to devastating extreme-weather impacts worldwide has now passed its peak, [...]

The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF says nearly a million children are in need of treatment for “severe acute malnutrition” [...]

The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasser, said yesterday that just under 100 million [...]

World leaders must unite to renew their commitments to humanity and end crisis and reduce vulnerability, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said [...]

(This story, slightly edited here for length, appeared first on the BRACED website. In its own operation for last year’s [...]

The IFRC yesterday launched an appeal worth nearly US$ 2.4m in response to the outbreak of Zika virus to enable [...]

An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva today declared a “public health emergency of international concern” [...]

The ICRC, International Federation and Devex – a prominent media platform for the global development community – yesterday jointly launched [...]

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) – a leading global provider of early warning and analysis on food [...]

Humanitarian need over the past decade has grown “at a staggering rate,” IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy said on [...]

The IFRC’s Community Preparedness and Risk Reduction Department yesterday announced that the e-learning course Climate Change – an introduction for [...]

The IFRC last week launched an emergency appeal worth US$ 2.2m to enable the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) to [...]

Temperatures in much of the UK in December 2015 were closer to those of the spring months of April and [...]

(This story appeared first last month on the IFRC’s news site. The most recent IFRC update on the El Niño-related [...]

The Geneva-based Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) last month published its first annual report based on three years’ worth of consolidated data [...]

(This is the Climate Centre’s review of highlights of 2015 – a historic year of firsts for climate. More details [...]

To the campaigners who for years lobbied for a global deal on climate, to the officials who pored over the [...]

(This story appeared first last month on the website of the Institute of Development Studies; it has been edited slightly [...]

The European Union has announced it’s contributing €125m to finance emergency response in countries affected by the current El Niño [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued this evening shortly after the historic climate agreement at COP 21 in Paris.) [...]

(This article appeared first yesterday on the Climate Central website; it has been slightly edited here for length.) Last weekend a [...]

(This web story is an abridged version of a longer piece that first appeared on internationaleonline.org.) At the Climate Centre we have [...]

The British Red Cross (BRC) this week launched a major operation in the north-west English counties of Cumbria and Lancashire [...]

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – summing up the first week of the COP 21 climate talks in Paris [...]

(This blog on the first day of Development and Climate Days in Paris also appears on the CDKN website. Some [...]