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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 [...]

Intense heatwaves, heavier downpours, and severe droughts and wildfires. These are all climate impacts projected to become more severe this [...]

The latest addition last week to the Australian Red Cross (ARC) series of online gender briefing papers covers how gender can [...]

The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) last week launched a comprehensive resource pack “to spark discussion about climate trends [...]

The IFRC yesterday announced the release of its new supplementary guidance, Integrating Climate Change and Urban Risks into the Vulnerability [...]

As of this month, US$ 52 billion of new development investment in the World Bank’s programme for the poorest countries [...]

Last month’s Humanitarian Summer School on games for development and humanitarian work was the first of its kind at the [...]

Germany – in a bid to improve understanding between humanitarians and climate scientists – has announced new support for a [...]

The biennial forum of Understanding Risk (UR), whose theme was “producing actionable information”, ended at University College London today, after [...]

Many governments are now preparing for an El Niño – associated with regional-scale drought and floods – based on advice [...]

World experts in the emerging field of “human computation” gathered in Washington, DC last week to discuss the possibly unprecedented [...]

The Climate Centre last week ran a two-day training session in game facilitation for staff at the International Fund for [...]

President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines yesterday said it is now vital to mount “a focused international effort to address [...]

Officials, academics, scientists and development practitioners last week gathered at two workshops in Zambia to discuss the country’s future climate [...]

Deadly floods and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia were caused by “some of the heaviest rainfall on [...]

Resources from the Climate Centre’s Climate Training Kit were rolled out for the first time in the Horn of Africa [...]

Professionally facilitated “writeshops” last June in Bali, Indonesia, and earlier this year in Guatemala and Nicaragua have generated book-length collections [...]

A new research paper by specialists from the Climate Centre, German Red Cross, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, and VU University [...]

The 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA8) ended in the Nepalese capital this week with the “Kathmandu Declaration” calling [...]

The New York-based International Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), an IFRC partner organization, this week increased to 75–80 per [...]

(This is a shortened version of the IPCC press release issued from Berlin on 13 April.)  A new report by [...]

This article was first published on the social reporting blog of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized [...]