News archive

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 [...]

The 13th Development & Climate Days (D&C Days) weekend workshop alongside annual UN climate talks got underway in Paris today, centred [...]

(This story appeared first on the news site of ifrc.org.) Nine months have passed since Tropical Cyclone Pam swept through [...]

(This is a joint press release issued simultaneously this morning in the Netherlands and at COP 21 in Paris by the [...]

(This story is a joint statement by the IFRC and the World Food Programme, issued simultaneously as a press release [...]

(This story was first published earlier today as a press release on www.ifrc.org.) As climate negotiators gather at COP 21 [...]

(This story appeared first earlier this week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited here for length.) In recent [...]

In a ground-breaking humanitarian action triggered by a scientific forecast of flood risk, the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) Friday [...]

(This story appeared first as a press release by the World Bank yesterday.) Climate change is already preventing people from [...]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of Climate Central, convenor of the World Weather Attribution programme that includes [...]

(This opinion piece appeared first on the IFRC news site last week.) We are increasingly seeing debates about the best use of [...]

(This story appeared first last week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited slightly here for length.) Seven [...]

An IFRC programme to help National Societies engage with National Adaptation Plans (NAP) reached Kenya and Malawi through workshops last [...]

“It does not inspire,” Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister for environment, forests and climate change, said cuttingly of the chopped-down version [...]

(This is a press release issued by the UN-OCHA Ethiopia Humanitarian Country Team on 13 October. It has been edited [...]

(These stories first appeared yesterday on the Cordaid and Wetlands International websites. They are edited slightly here for length.) Disasters [...]

The small Vanuatu village of Epau now has its own draft action plan for climate and disaster resilience. Thirty representatives [...]

“We want to continue with you, we want to learn from you, we can also help you.” That was the [...]

The Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Abbas Gullet, who is in the Netherlands, today called on [...]

A major international conference on resilience taking a 360-degree look at both lessons learned over half a decade of programme [...]

The IFRC in a press release yesterday strongly welcomed the adoption at a special UN summit in New York over the [...]

A three-day summit to adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda for humanity post-2015 was starting at UN headquarters in [...]

For a city planner looking to make a new building flood-proof, or a farmer interested in trying out new drought-resistant [...]

Communities and humanitarian and development workers are facing rapidly changing risks from unplanned urbanization, environmental degradation, a changing climate and [...]

Resilience generally denotes the ability of social systems to function and flourish despite disturbances.  In spite of a consensus on [...]

The IFRC this weekend issued a new information bulletin on the severe El Niño affecting Papua New Guinea (PNG), declared [...]

(This article first appeared last week as a guest blog on the website of the Scientific American.) “The weather report [...]

(This story was first posted on the website of the Nairobi-based Somalia Water and Land Information Management unit of the [...]

“Yet further strengthening” over the next few months of the current already-strong El Niño is now forecast by scientists at [...]

Floods and mudslides in several Central Asian countries last month renewed fears that melting glaciers are intensifying a possibly climate-related [...]

Parts of Asia have been “inundated by floodwaters and ravaged by landslides” as heavy rains batter the region, causing extensive [...]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) – an IFRC science and forecasting partner – and the Climate [...]

A new World Bank study using “uniquely rich data” that combines information on health, social and environmental conditions, and micro-climates [...]

The first newsletter produced by the knowledge-management component of the “BRACED” climate-resilience programme – supported by the UK Department for [...]

The Climate Centre last month provided technical input at an IFRC workshop in Togo on climate and weather information in [...]

“The rains are different now. Twenty years ago we could plan for harvests. We knew what to expect.” The words [...]

The chances of the current El Niño continuing through the northern-hemisphere autumn are now 99 per cent, with a 95 per [...]

This story was first published on 16 July on the website of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). [...]

The first twice-yearly dialogue platform supported by the German Federal Foreign Office – gathering meteorologists, climate scientists, humanitarians and donors [...]

This month saw the release of The Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Principled Approach to Innovation – a detailed report that [...]

Friday’s closing statement from the four-day international scientific conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris describes climate change as the “defining [...]