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By the Climate Centre The 2023 global mean temperature reached 1.48°C above pre-industrial levels, and this “strongly increased the intensity [...]

By the Climate Centre The UK Environment Agency yesterday called on the public to remain vigilant after the prolonged wet [...]

by the Climate Centre (A snapshot of the year’s events and our engagement with them through the eyes of the [...]

By the IFRC (This story is a news release that appeared first on the IFRC website earlier today.) The Secretary [...]

By the Climate Centre (A version of this story appeared first yesterday as an IFRC press release from Geneva.) American [...]

By Sajanika Sivanu, Climate Centre, TorontoThe Climate Centre has today – Universal Health Coverage Day – published a comprehensive overview [...]

By the Climate Centre The first call for proposals was announced recently for Pathways2Resilience (P2R) – a new EU-funded programme [...]

By the Climate Centre (A longer version of this story appeared first earlier today on the website of the International [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre today published a summary of key findings on loss and damage from the [...]

 By the Climate CentreThe IFRC yesterday formalized a cooperation agreement with ICLEI – the 2,500-strong global network of local and [...]

By the Climate Centre(A version of this story appeared first as an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dubai [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC and the Kenya Red Cross Society last week launched an emergency appeal for 18 [...]

By the IFRC(This story appeared first on the IFRC website earlier this month.)Planting, watering, weeding, harvesting and feeding the animals [...]

By Catherine-Lune Grayson, Head of Policy, and Amir Khouzam, Policy Adviser (This blog was first published on the ICRC website [...]

By the Climate Centre A study of last month’s record-breaking heat in Madagascar published today by World Weather Attribution scientists [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change threatens to reverse decades of progress towards better health, particularly in the most vulnerable [...]

By the Climate Centre(Since this story was posted and with floods affecting large parts of East Africa, the Uganda Red [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre and the Prudence Foundation today publish a scoping review of academic literature from [...]

By the Climate Centre A new study from World Weather Attribution scientists says lengthy and severe droughts like the one [...]

By the Climate Centre The current El Niño event that developed from July is expected to persist at least until [...]

By the Climate CentreDevelopment and Climate Days returns this year at COP 28 for the first in-person session since before [...]

By the IFRC Regional Office for Europe and the Climate Centre The IFRC has today published a new road map [...]

By the ICRC(This story appeared first on the ICRC website yesterday. Editors: please register here to download high-resolution photos and [...]

By the IFRCThe IFRC and the Boao Forum for Asia this week jointly hosted a high-level youth-led climate action round-table [...]

By the Climate CentreProfessor Saleemul Huq, described as a torchbearer in Bangladesh’s and the world’s struggle against climate change and [...]

By the Climate Centre The second Open Science Conference of the World Climate Research Programme ended Friday in Rwanda with [...]

By the IFRC (This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC website, with an accompanying video.) As the sun blazes [...]

By Rita Nyaga, IFRC Nairobi Senior Communications Officer (This story first appeared on the IFRC website on Friday, the International [...]

By Anne Wanjiru Macharia, IFRC Nairobi Senior Regional Communications Officer, in Djibouti (This special report appeared first on the IFRC [...]

By the Climate Centre Early spring heat in South America was at least 100 times more likely due to human-caused [...]

By the Climate Centre The three-day 11th global dialogue platform (register) on anticipatory humanitarian action got underway in Berlin today [...]

By the Climate CentreThe week-long Adaptation Futures conference ended in Montreal Friday after gathering more than 2,000 participants from at [...]

This year is on track to be the warmest on record after the warmest September continued “an extended streak of [...]

By the IFRC (This story is based on an IFRC press release issued in New York and Geneva last week. [...]

By the Climate Centre (This story appeared first as an inter-agency press release late last week.)As proved so tragically in [...]

The world is far from meeting its climate goals and this is seriously undermining efforts to tackle hunger, poverty and [...]

By the Climate Centre (Since this story was written, the IFRC Thursday announced an emergency appeal for 10 million Swiss [...]

By the Climate Centre Africa Climate Week ended in Nairobi Friday, organized in parallel with the first-ever Africa Climate Summit [...]

By the Climate Centre After record-breaking heat and wildfires earlier this summer, National Societies in several southern European countries are [...]

By the Climate Centre Africa is responsible for only a fraction of global emissions but is suffering disproportionately from climate [...]

By the Climate Centre The Nairobi-based IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre said yesterday that its October to December forecast [...]

By the Climate Centre The Canadian Red Cross last week launched a national appeal to assist people affected by hundreds [...]

By the Climate Centre (A version of this story appeared first on the website of the University of Reading earlier [...]

By the Climate Centre The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) late last week updated its probabilistic forecast for [...]

By the Climate Centre The American Red Cross yesterday said at least 220 trained disaster workers from Maui, other Hawaiian [...]

(This story – an IFRC press release issued jointly in Kuala Lumpur, Dhaka and Beijing – appeared first yesterday.) Countries [...]

By the Climate Centre Storm Hans this week brought high winds, intense rain and landslides to the Nordic region, downing [...]

By Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, Berlin, and Gala Dahlet, FAO, Rome In a world grappling with the dual challenges of [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC and its specialist Climate Centre today published a comprehensive new guide to climate-smart programming [...]

By Anna Wanjiru, IFRC Senior Regional Communications Officer, Nairobi (This story appeared first on the IFRC website last Wednesday.)Most countries [...]

By the Climate Centre Extreme weather and the impacts of climate change are intensifying in what is already the world’s [...]