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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 [...]

(A full version of this article ran in last month’s Islands Business magazine.) The recent cyclone in Fiji demonstrates that [...]

US-based Climate Centre team members last week attended the 2013 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of [...]

The United Nations Security Council held an informal session last Friday, convened by Pakistan and the UK, to discuss “the [...]

The Climate Centre and the IFRC’s Fiji-based regional office have put together a new, one-stop-shop overview poster of Early Warning, [...]

Detailed new IFRC guidance for National Society staff and volunteers stresses the importance of following up humanitarian early-warning of hazards [...]

A full multimedia gallery of content, including video, generated by last July’s Understanding Risk Forum in Cape Town, South Africa, [...]

The Cloud Nasara project to produce two animated short-films illustrating climate issues in the Pacific is nearing full production, with [...]

The president of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS), Jagath Abeysinghe, has presided over the “national event”, at Kaikawala [...]

Measurements from around the world suggest monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, according to a new report from [...]

Carbon dioxide doesn’t just stay in the atmosphere and warm the planet: about one third of the CO2 produced through [...]

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology today said the current heatwave will continue for the next few days and has been [...]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) has launched a new version of the online IFRC map room [...]

The Climate Centre has joined Argentina’s Tres de Febrero University in opening a competition for sound art related to “the [...]

Two-thousand-and-twelve was not just a great Olympic year! It was also the year in which the Climate Centre took its [...]

“I ask all of us here, if not us, then who? If not now, then when? If not here, then [...]

A new report for the UK government aimed at helping policy-makers reduce the risks of disasters has drawn on Red [...]

A new agreement between the IFRC and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) could deliver a major boost to Red [...]

The latest round of UNFCC climate talks, COP18, drew to a close in Qatar only a few days after Typhoon Bopha [...]

Members of the South-East European Forum on Climate Change Adaptation have been finalizing “national advocacy strategies” to promote dialogue on [...]

Some 200 people are now reported to have died after Typhoon Bopha struck the Philippine island of Mindanao, bringing with [...]

With the latest round of UN climate talks now into their second week in the Qatar capital, Doha, delegates were [...]

By the Climate Centre Scientists and philosophers have long speculated on the role of games in human evolution, suggesting they [...]

By the Climate Centre The five Netherlands Partners for Resilience agencies last week launched a new presentation of their vision [...]

A ground-breaking Red Cross Red Crescent project, supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, to build operational knowledge on health risks that [...]

With climate change increasing the risk of extreme weather and disasters worldwide, national climate-adaptation plans acknowledge the essential role of [...]

The South East European Forum on Climate Change Adaptation has published her 5th newsletter issue. The newsletter contains a review of [...]

Another one of our junior researchers, Selina Maenzanise, finished her research last summer. After winning a funding grant from START, [...]

This past summer one of the Climate Centre’s Junior Researchers, Laura Canevari Luzardo conducted her master’s research (Oxford) in the Caribbean. [...]

Two of the Climate Centre’s junior researchers from King’s College London this summer were located in East Africa Gillian Logie wrote her dissertation [...]

Recently, the 30th edition of the Pacific newsletter Saving Lives Changing Minds was published. This issue shows how global updates are [...]

The Climate & Gender Game While there is growing consensus as to the differential impacts of climate change on the [...]

On 29 June 2012, Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands presented the Netherlands Climate Medal (for Dutch frontrunners in global climate [...]

Message on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Climate Centre Today, 28 June 2012, the Red Cross Red [...]

In this issue, there is a special report on the foundation day of the regional forum on Climate Change Adaptation [...]

IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Weather Events (SREX) Kenya Red Cross climate adaptation case-study IRI/Climate Centre [...]

The Pledge Project  2008-11 – Colombia, Ethiopia, Indonesia The Netherlands Pledge Project was born in 2007. At its core was a [...]

The South East European Forum on Climate Change has published the third issue of its SEE Climate Forum Newsletter. SEE has also launched a new facebook [...]

Unpredictable rainfall in parts of Côte d’Ivoire cost some farmers over half of their harvest in 2011 producers told IRIN, [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) yesterday released the full Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Weather Events [...]

The apocalyptic vision presented on cinema screens of a world devoid of food (Hunger Games) or with too much water [...]

A growing literature reveals how climate change affects women first and worst, and respond to it differently from men. Women [...]

KIGALI, 29 February 2012 (IRIN) – Drought is likely to return to Somalia and other parts of the Horn of [...]