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A new edition of the inter-agency Minimum Standards intended to bridge national climate policy and local capacities for disaster risk reduction [...]

The second of two IFRC side-events at the 2013 UN climate talks in Warsaw – the popular Development and Climate [...]

People in the Philippines who track climate news won’t have failed to notice that it was almost a year ago, [...]

The first of two official side-events co-hosted by the IFRC delegation at the COP 19 UN climate talks was held [...]

Global sea-levels have reached a record high, according to a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) statement released today to coincide with [...]

This year’s session, the 19th, of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change [...]

Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a record high in 2012, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said today. This continues [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre today joined leading scientists in Brussels to help set the agenda for research [...]

Over 300 scientists and practitioners gathered in Arusha, Tanzania, earlier this month to share the latest developments in climate science [...]

A new UK think tank report says extreme weather linked to climate change is increasing and may cause disasters that [...]

Despite the successful evacuation of 1 million people and minimal loss of life, Cyclone Phailin – the most powerful tropical [...]

Climate scientists at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, have constructed a new index of climate change that suggests the world’s [...]

Effective risk management boosts resilience in the face of adversity – especially health problems, weather shocks and economic crises – [...]

The official summary of the much-heralded first instalment of the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate [...]

A four-day global work conference of the Netherlands Partners for Resilience (PfR) got underway at the Theater Concordia in The Hague [...]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) has launched a new video guide to the online IFRC map [...]

A groundbreaking collaboration got underway last month between the Zambian Red Cross (ZRC), the Boston-based Engagement Game Lab (EGL) at [...]

Timely action taken by the Belarus Red Cross (BRC) to prepare for this year’s spring floods made a significant difference [...]

The second of two animations integrating climate and disaster preparedness in the Pacific in an entertaining and accessible way is [...]

Geoengineering – the intentional manipulation of the global climate with techniques like dispersing sulphur particles in the upper atmosphere to [...]

(IFRC photographer Benoit Matsha-Carpentier and writer Patrick Fuller went on mission in the Pacific to capture the effects of climate [...]

(IFRC photographer Benoit Matsha-Carpentier and writer Patrick Fuller went on mission in the Pacific to capture the effects of climate [...]

The Togolese Red Cross (TRC) is now ready to take full advantage of a groundbreaking effort linking early warning to [...]

Potentially dangerous heatwave conditions are becoming a frequent summer occurrence for the countries of South-East Europe.   Recognising the risk, [...]

The Nicaraguan Red Cross (NRC) is taking part in a drive begun by the government earlier this year to reduce [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre and the University of Colorado at Boulder have linked up to send CU [...]

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will work together [...]

An animated film that integrates climate science and disaster preparedness – The Pacific Adventures of the Climate Crab – premiered [...]

Thirty Ugandan MPs, members of the country’s parliamentary forum on disaster risk reduction, took part in a special session of [...]

The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) and the Disaster Management Centre of the country’s Ministry of Disaster Management last [...]

A report from the World Bank out today concluding that a warmer world will “keep millions of people trapped in [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Centre for Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CCM) yesterday announced the results of its 5th annual [...]

The drivers of demand for humanitarian work are evolving all the time and include “new patterns in the timing, location, [...]

At least 15 people have died and several others are missing, according to a European Commission update, as a period [...]

The relationship between climate and health in Africa, and elsewhere globally, is still poorly studied and often overlooked altogether. Avoidable [...]

The ‘Climate Forum East’ project for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and the Ukraine – co-funded by the European Union, [...]

The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), chaired by Switzerland, ended in Geneva yesterday, after [...]

The Kenya Red Cross Society’s (KRCS) drive to reinforce the climate-resilience of food supplies in the aftermath of drought that [...]

The Netherlands Partners for Resilience (PfR) – CARE Nederland, Cordaid, the Netherlands Red Cross, the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre [...]

The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere measured at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed the 400 [...]

A unique new Red Cross project for climate change adaptation (CCA) in Uganda held an inception meeting late last month [...]

Six months after demonstrating the Frisbee “hurricane game” at the White House, the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre this [...]

The week-long 7th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (“CBA7”) ended in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka yesterday, after what organizers described [...]

In the village of Genda Yusuf in the Goro Gutu region of eastern Ethiopia, women are demonstrating a new kind [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre last week took part in an online debate, hosted by the Thomson Reuters [...]

Environmental and demographic changes coupled with low levels of political inclusion and high instability mean that the risk of “acute [...]

Last Saturday, a group of 25 young people in Maputo became planners for a morning – charged with developing their [...]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Centre for Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CCM) today (Thursday) launches its 5th annual youth photo [...]

Water shortages, disease, crime, rising food prices, house fires, uncontrolled urbanization (migration from rural areas): these are all potential risks faced [...]

(This is an abridged verson of an article that appeared on www.irinnews.org.) Contrary to popular belief, most rural communities facing [...]

The 2012 prize for best master's thesis in humanitarian logistics has been awarded by the HUMLOG Institute to Rose van [...]