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The US government today announced Climate Services for Resilient Development, a new international public-private partnership to help developing nations vulnerable [...]

The Netherlands government has said it supports the groundbreaking concept of forecast-based financing, intended to facilitate humanitarian action before disaster [...]

(This article first appeared on Climate Central’s website on 3 June. It has been edited slightly here for length. The [...]

More than 5,000 decision-makers and specialists gathered in Brussels this week for Europe’s leading forum on global development and cooperation: [...]

(Joint press release issued yesterday by the World Bank, African Development Bank, and World Meteorological Organization from the 17th World [...]

The United Nations Association-UK (UNA-UK) yesterday released a major report, Climate 2020, on the new global framework due to be agreed at the [...]

El Niño – the phenomenon of warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific – recently intensified, though scientists still aren’t [...]

An intensive participatory workshop in Nairobi earlier this month documented five years’ implementation and learning from the Partners for Resilience [...]

With the outcome targets established at the start of the programme broadly achieved, the Partners for Resilience (PfR) alliance is [...]

We know the climate is changing and future generations will bear the brunt. The “weirding” of the planet, as it [...]

(This story was first published last week on the IRIN humanitarian news and analysis website. Climate Centre Director Maarten van [...]

The IFRC secretariat yesterday released a new guide to its specialist reference centres, of which the Red Cross Red Crescent [...]

The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) ended in Nairobi yesterday with a call to world leaders to address [...]

Vulnerability to river-flood danger around the world is declining, according to a study in the latest US Proceedings of the [...]

In a first for the Pacific, community-focused teams from ten Pacific island nations have come together to experience the power [...]

A detailed news briefing on volcanic eruptions and their climate impacts in the current issue of The Economist has acknowledged [...]

A new handbook book has been compiled by programme managers from Ethiopia, Germany and South Africa jointly drawing on their experience [...]

The Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC), jointly with the United Nations Development Programme and the Australian government, late last week [...]

(This blog post was first published by the ICRC regional delegation in Delhi on 24 March 2015.)   IFRC representatives at the WCDRR in [...]

Thousands of lives have been saved around the world over the past year alone by improved weather forecasting, early-warning systems [...]

The new global framework for policy and programming on disaster risk reduction (DRR) “outlines clear targets and priorities for action which will [...]

IFRC President Tadateru Konoe yesterday presented the International Federation’s voluntary commitment toward post-2015 disaster risk reduction and the Sustainable Development [...]

(Full text of today's speech by HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands at the opening of the ecosystem session at [...]

The opening over the weekend of the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) has been marked by “a [...]

US scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say the technical threshold for “long-anticipated” El Niño conditions has [...]

River flooding will “affect more people and cause significantly more damage by 2030” because of climate change and development, according [...]

Germany's Federal Foreign Office and the German Red Cross (GRC) this week distributed a six-point action plan for humanitarian adaptation to climate change, [...]

(This story first appeared on www.trust.org last Friday 13 February.) Warnings of extreme weather and climate threats in the developing world are [...]

Some 12,000 Ghanaian children die each year from diseases that could be prevented by hand-washing with soap, according to the Child [...]

Better use of climate information could help promote development in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a report out this week that [...]

The IFRC is releasing more than a quarter of a million US dollars in emergency humanitarian cash for Albania’s Red [...]

When global figures gathered in the Swiss resort of Davos last week for the annual meeting of the World Economic [...]

The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) begins in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, today, and among the featured publications released by the WEF [...]

Tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe after floods caused [...]

Clusters of unmanned aerial vehicles that could relay mobile-phone signals using a “mesh network” to restore communications after disaster; wearable technology that [...]

The Pacific Ocean remains primed for an El Niño event, according to the Australian Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) annual climate statement [...]

International meteorologists say last year is on course to become the hottest ever recorded in Europe and at least one [...]

A global agreement on climate change that will harness action by all nations “took a further important step forward” after [...]

An ambitious, cooperative project to create solar-powered, lighter-than-air sculptures at Development and Climate Days (“D&C Days”) in the Peruvian capital, [...]

Community-based approaches are increasingly emphasized as the most viable for planning and implementing climate adaptation in developing countries, but it’s [...]

By the Climate Centre The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published the full synthesis of its Fifth Assessment [...]

(This article was first published by Climate Central on 20 October 2014.) The phantom El Niño continues to hold sway over the weather and [...]

This year, World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme as it questions why culture is not a central consideration in [...]

Participants at the final conference of the Climate Forum East project, in the Belarus capital Minsk last week, were disconcerted [...]

At the Country Club Lima Hotel during COP 20 in Lima 6–7 December 2014 #zerozero For the first time in history, an opportunity exists [...]

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today announced a “Climate Information to Climate Action” initiative [...]

For the first time in its history, the United Nations has created an international mission for a public-health emergency. The [...]

The IFRC and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) today signed a historic partnership agreement that aims [...]

The first-ever global conference on climate and health ended last Friday at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO). It [...]

Guatemala’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction (CONRED), and the National Council [...]

A global campaign to improve weather and climate services for all small island developing states was launched this week with [...]