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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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

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 [...]