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Amid ‘particular concern’ over climate-related illness and heat, #MeteoWorld resolves to expand services for public health

Amid ‘particular concern’ over climate-related illness and heat, #MeteoWorld resolves to expand services for public health
26 May 2023

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Congress, which opened in Geneva on Monday, has agreed to scale up services [...]

‘Thanks to early warning and disaster management, catastrophic mortality rates are history’

‘Thanks to early warning and disaster management, catastrophic mortality rates are history’
22 May 2023

By the Climate Centre (The IFRC last week launched an emergency appeal for 5 million Swiss francs to assist the [...]

ICRC: Climate change and conflict combine to increase humanitarian needs in the Middle East

ICRC: Climate change and conflict combine to increase humanitarian needs in the Middle East
19 May 2023

By the ICRC (This story is an ICRC release issued yesterday from Geneva. The new Making Adaptation Work report is [...]

Russian Red Cross faces new wildfire emergency

Russian Red Cross faces new wildfire emergency
18 May 2023

By the Climate Centre The northern hemisphere has seen “significant wildfire activity” this month and last, with large fires burning [...]

WMO: Global temperatures likely to surge to record levels over next five years

WMO: Global temperatures likely to surge to record levels over next five years
17 May 2023

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization’s 2023 Annual-to-Decadal Climate Prediction, which has just been released, says there is [...]

IFRC: Access and time crucial to help families in Myanmar and Bangladesh affected by Cyclone Mocha

IFRC: Access and time crucial to help families in Myanmar and Bangladesh affected by Cyclone Mocha
16 May 2023

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.)The strongest cyclone [...]

Cyclone Mocha: Accurate forecasts spur preparedness in Myanmar and Bangladesh

Cyclone Mocha: Accurate forecasts spur preparedness in Myanmar and Bangladesh
15 May 2023

By the Climate Centre The Mocha system made landfall early afternoon local time on the north-west coast of Myanmar yesterday [...]

Study: Western Mediterranean heatwave rare even for today’s warmed world

Study: Western Mediterranean heatwave rare even for today’s warmed world
7 May 2023

By the Climate Centre A rapid study of last month’s extraordinary heatwave in the western Mediterranean by World Weather Attribution [...]

Social protection and WASH can achieve common goals

Social protection and WASH can achieve common goals
4 May 2023

By Sajanika Sivanu, Climate Centre, Toronto, Canada The Climate Centre and the Norwegian Red Cross this week released a new [...]

WMO: Prepare for El Niño

WMO: Prepare for El Niño
3 May 2023

By the Climate CentreThe probability of El Niño developing later this year is increasing, the World Meteorological Organization said today, [...]

Iberian peninsula heat breaks April record for Spain by nearly 5°C

Iberian peninsula heat breaks April record for Spain by nearly 5°C
1 May 2023

By the Climate Centre The Spanish Red Cross (CRE) was last week reaching out to vulnerable groups such as the [...]

‘Exceptional drought’ in Horn of Africa would not have occurred without climate change – Study

‘Exceptional drought’ in Horn of Africa would not have occurred without climate change – Study
27 April 2023

By the Climate Centre Climate change has turned what would have been manageable ‘dry’ conditions in the Horn of Africa [...]

New at #HNPW: Report reveals scale of anticipatory action worldwide

New at #HNPW: Report reveals scale of anticipatory action worldwide
26 April 2023

By the Anticipation Hub (A version of this story appeared first yesterday on the Anticipation Hub website; it has been [...]

WMO global climate report: ‘Melting of some European glaciers literally off the charts’

WMO global climate report: ‘Melting of some European glaciers literally off the charts’
21 April 2023

By the Climate Centre The State of the Global Climate 2022 report published by the World Meteorological Organization earlier today [...]

Relief operation for 12,000 people affected by Uruguay drought after DREF for Red Cross assessment

Relief operation for 12,000 people affected by Uruguay drought after DREF for Red Cross assessment
20 April 2023

By the Climate Centre The Uruguayan Red Cross earlier this year was supported by the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund [...]

IFRC reference centres partner with new Connecting Climate Minds global project

IFRC reference centres partner with new Connecting Climate Minds global project
18 April 2023

By the Climate Centre A ground-breaking project to catalyse global research at the intersection of climate change and mental health [...]

Yemen Red Crescent prepares for forecast ‘severe weather’ in year’s first rainy season

Yemen Red Crescent prepares for forecast ‘severe weather’ in year’s first rainy season
17 April 2023

By the Climate Centre Heavy seasonal rainfall since mid-March has caused flooding in many of Yemen’s governorates, affecting more than [...]

Red Cross battles climate impacts on two fronts in Kenya

Red Cross battles climate impacts on two fronts in Kenya
12 April 2023

By the Climate Centre The start of the long rains in Kenya last month caused floods across northern and southern [...]

Early-spring wildfires ‘augur summer worries’ for Spain

Early-spring wildfires ‘augur summer worries’ for Spain
5 April 2023

By the Climate Centre Some 200 local Spanish Red Cross volunteers in four specialist teams were deployed late last week [...]

EU looks to ‘non-traditional donors’ to help blunt climate-driven disaster

EU looks to ‘non-traditional donors’ to help blunt climate-driven disaster
31 March 2023

By the Climate Centre The European Humanitarian Forum in Brussels last week focused on the “effectiveness and efficiency of aid, [...]

WMO celebrates 150 years of ‘cooperation and data exchange’

<strong>WMO celebrates 150 years of ‘cooperation and data exchange’</strong>
23 March 2023

By the Climate Centre World Meteorological Day today – marked every year on 23 March to commemorate the 1950 agreement [...]

In TC Freddy’s wake, UN convenes multi-agency panel to accelerate early-warning worldwide

In TC Freddy’s wake, UN convenes multi-agency panel to accelerate early-warning worldwide
22 March 2023

By the Climate Centre Arguing that record Cyclone Freddy in Southern Africa once again shows the paramount importance of early [...]

‘Feasible, effective options’ to reduce emissions and adapt remain, but it means fundamental transformation

‘Feasible, effective options’ to reduce emissions and adapt remain, but it means fundamental transformation
20 March 2023

By the Climate Centre The IPCC’s summary of its now-complete sixth assessment of the global climate was published today after [...]

TC Freddy may break record for the longest-lasting cyclone

TC Freddy may break record for the longest-lasting cyclone
15 March 2023

By the Climate Centre The Malawi government said yesterday that record-breaking Cyclone Freddy had claimed nearly 200 lives as it [...]

The Hague round table: ‘The more fragile a country is, the less climate finance it gets’

<strong>The Hague round table: ‘The more fragile a country is, the less climate finance it gets’</strong>
8 March 2023

By the Climate Centre This year’s round table on climate and security in The Hague yesterday covered the growing challenge [...]

Heat-health experts meet in-person for the first time since pandemic

Heat-health experts meet in-person for the first time since pandemic
6 March 2023

By the Climate Centre The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre last week represented the Movement at the first in-person [...]

Back-to-back cyclones in South Pacific mean ‘huge immediate needs’

Back-to-back cyclones in South Pacific mean ‘huge immediate needs’
5 March 2023

By the Climate Centre (This story is edited from IFRC press releases and social media linked in the first two [...]

WMO: Long-lived La Niña ending, but not soon enough to ease Horn drought

WMO: Long-lived La Niña ending, but not soon enough to ease Horn drought
1 March 2023

By the Climate Centre A warming El Niño event “may develop in the coming months” after three years straight of [...]

Rapid IFRC cash grants help National Societies address Cyclone Freddy impacts

<strong>Rapid IFRC cash grants help National Societies address Cyclone Freddy impacts</strong>
27 February 2023

By the Climate Centre Two grants from the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund approved last week are helping the Malagasy [...]

REAP State of Play report: ‘Are we doing enough?’

REAP State of Play report: ‘Are we doing enough?’
24 February 2023

By the Climate Centre REAP’s Early Action: The State of Play 2022 report asks the question: Are we doing enough [...]

Smart early-warning: Hydromet experts discuss ways to progress digitization in Africa

Smart early-warning: Hydromet experts discuss ways to progress digitization in Africa
16 February 2023

By the Climate Centre A three-day expert meeting aimed at progressing the use in Africa of digital technology to help [...]

‘Cholera is back but the world is looking away’

‘Cholera is back but the world is looking away’
14 February 2023

By Petra Khoury, IFRC Director of Health and Care (This article appeared first on The BMJ website and it is [...]

Kenya Red Cross early-action seeds help farmers beat drought

Kenya Red Cross early-action seeds help farmers beat drought
9 February 2023

By Denis Onyodi, Climate Centre, Kwale county, Kenya Farmers in Kenya’s southern Kwale county who had turned to logging and [...]

Prudence Foundation and IFRC collaborate on health impacts of heat, humidity and air pollution

Prudence Foundation and IFRC collaborate on health impacts of heat, humidity and air pollution
3 February 2023

By the Climate Centre The Prudence Foundation and the IFRC through its specialist Climate Centre today announced a new partnership [...]

New DREF grant to help Red Cross assess needs in nationwide Uruguay drought

New DREF grant to help Red Cross assess needs in nationwide Uruguay drought
1 February 2023

By the Climate Centre The Uruguayan government last month asked the Red Cross for support in evaluating the current countrywide [...]

‘No earthquake, drought or hurricane in recorded history took more lives than the Covid-19 pandemic’

‘No earthquake, drought or hurricane in recorded history took more lives than the Covid-19 pandemic’
30 January 2023

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva earlier today. It has been edited slightly [...]

DREF grant responds to Mozambique cholera surge, anticipating rainy-season peak

DREF grant responds to Mozambique cholera surge, anticipating rainy-season peak
25 January 2023

By the Climate Centre The IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund Monday approved a grant of nearly 500,000 Swiss francs to [...]

Storms abate in California but hundreds of Red Cross personnel in place to assist with aftermath

Storms abate in California but hundreds of Red Cross personnel in place to assist with aftermath
19 January 2023

By the Climate Centre The rain is finally ending in California after nine consecutive “atmospheric rivers” saturated the state since [...]

‘Hundreds of Red Crossers helping exhausted Californians as more storms head their way’

‘Hundreds of Red Crossers helping exhausted Californians as more storms head their way’
15 January 2023

By the Climate Centre (American Red Cross advice on finding storm shelters and staying safe from floods, landslides, and power [...]

Last year ‘eighth in a row’ of temperatures above pre-industrial level, threatening Paris target of 1.5°C

Last year ‘eighth in a row’ of temperatures above pre-industrial level, threatening Paris target of 1.5°C
13 January 2023

By the Climate Centre The past eight years were the warmest on record globally, fuelled by “ever-rising emissions and accumulated [...]

WMO: Healing ozone layer will help avoid up to 0.5°C of global warming

WMO: Healing ozone layer will help avoid up to 0.5°C of global warming
9 January 2023

By the Climate CentreThe ozone layer is on course to recover within four decades, with the global phasing-out of ozone-depleting [...]

Climate change made UK record hot year ‘160 times more likely’

Climate change made UK record hot year ‘160 times more likely’
6 January 2023

Human-induced climate change made the UK’s record-breaking annual temperature last year about 160 times more likely, an attribution study by [...]

Record-breaking mild weather across Europe, while Red Cross ready for more of the opposite in North America

Record-breaking mild weather across Europe, while Red Cross ready for more of the opposite in North America
5 January 2023

By the Climate Centre The UK Met Office said Tuesday that the main factor behind the exceptional weather currently being [...]

IFRC: Amid worst drought in 40 years, chance of famine rises 25% in Somalia if displaced people don’t get help

IFRC: Amid worst drought in 40 years, chance of famine rises 25% in Somalia if displaced people don’t get help
2 January 2023

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva on 19 December.) Somalia’s worst [...]

Climate Centre Review of the Year 2022

Climate Centre Review of the Year 2022
21 December 2022

by the Climate Centre (A look at our engagement with the year’s events through the eyes of the Climate Centre [...]

Early warning among ‘top science stories of 2022, chosen by scientists’

Early warning among ‘top science stories of 2022, chosen by scientists’
19 December 2022

By the Climate Centre Early warning of extreme weather is among “the ten biggest science stories of 2022 – chosen [...]

More people, more sessions, more progress at 10th Global Dialogue Platform

More people, more sessions, more progress at 10th Global Dialogue Platform
9 December 2022

By the Anticipation Hub (This story appeared first earlier today on the news area of the Anticipation Hub website.) At [...]

‘Real and long overdue progress’ sees the young recognized as stakeholders in action and policy on climate

<strong>‘Real and long overdue progress’ sees the young recognized as stakeholders in action and policy on climate</strong><strong></strong>
2 December 2022

by the Climate Centre The second annual Red Cross Red Crescent Movement youth climate summit was held online yesterday, organized [...]

UR22 blog: What do acrobatics, doughnuts, beach balls and art have in common?

UR22 blog: What do acrobatics, doughnuts, beach balls and art have in common?
2 December 2022

By Dorothy Heinrich, Climate Centre They are all ways to communicate risk.This was a Climate Centre message at Understanding Risk [...]

COP27: Intergenerational brainstorm for hydromet early warning early action

COP27: Intergenerational brainstorm for hydromet early warning early action
30 November 2022

By Dorothy Heinrich, Climate Centre A designedly intergenerational workshop at COP27 earlier this month produced a five-point call to the [...]

Opinion: Success or failure? A Climate Centre verdict on COP27

Opinion: Success or failure? A Climate Centre verdict on COP27
25 November 2022

By Carina Bachofen and Julie Arrighi, Associate Directors, Climate Centre, The Hague, Washington, DC So the jury’s out on whether [...]