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By the Climate Centre Over the past two years, extreme-weather events have caused devastation across every continent, adding further pressure [...]

By the Climate Centre The Salvation Army and the American Red Cross yesterday announced that the Lilly Endowment foundation has [...]

By the Climate Centre When world leaders arrive in Egypt for the UN climate talks next month, “they’ll be charged [...]

By the Climate Centre Coinciding with this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, a report from the UN Office [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC was today readying a second humanitarian cash grant to Guatemala, one of the countries [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre is today announcing the establishment of a Youth Advisory Group on Climate that [...]

By the Climate Centre (The most recent World Weather Attribution analysis found that high temperatures driven by climate change dried [...]

By Fleur Monasso and Devin O’Donnell, Climate Centre The Netherlands Red Cross and two IFRC reference centres today publish a [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Islamabad and Kuala Lumpur.) As widespread [...]

By the Climate Centre High temperatures driven by climate change dried out the soil across large parts of the Northern [...]

By the Climate Centre About 13,000 people escaping Hurricane Ian spent Tuesday night in shelters set up by the American [...]

By Sarah Gale, Technical Adviser, Climate Centre, Vancouver (Sarah Gale, a Technical Adviser with the Climate Centre and a former [...]

By the Climate Centre The Philippine Red Cross over the weekend mobilized at least 2,000 volunteers (photo) to assist residents [...]

By the Climate Centre   The UN says its initiative to ensure that all humanity is covered by early warning [...]

By Maarten van Aalst, New York The international humanitarian community is facing a crisis that is changing both quantitatively and [...]

By the Climate Centre A new study from the World Weather Attribution group of international scientists today found climate change [...]

By the Climate CentreThis year’s United in Science report highlights “a huge gap between aspirations and reality” on climate change, [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Africa report, released earlier today, says “water [...]

By Alice Ruhweza, WWF Regional Director for Africa, and Mohammed Omer Mukhier-Abuzein, IFRC Regional Director for Africa (This blog also [...]

By the Climate Centre The current protracted La Niña will probably last to the end of the year, becoming the [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Islamabad and Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The IFRC [...]

By the ICRC (This story and accompanying video shot last month in Garissa county were released by the ICRC earlier [...]

By the Climate Centre The Climate Centre last week joined a Netherlands-supported partnership with the International Union for Conservation of [...]

By Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, Germany The Nigerian Red Cross in central Kaduna city earlier this week completed a humanitarian [...]

By the Climate Centre The UK’s Guardian newspaper last week published what it says is the most comprehensive compilation to [...]

By Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, Germany New research on early warning and early action for typhoons in Palau and drought [...]

(This story is a joint IFRC-WFP press release issued today in Dubai. It has been edited slightly here mainly for [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2021 report [...]

By the Climate Centre (This story is edited from a Met Office press release issued on Friday.) A published event [...]

By the Climate Centre The 13th annual Petersberg Climate Dialogue, hosted by Germany jointly with COP27 president Egypt, was held [...]

By the Climate Centre The British Met Office said today that a temperature of 40.2°C was provisionally registered at London’s [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change and various hazards unrelated to weather are giving rise to an increasing number of [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Budapest.) Extreme temperatures have spiralled into [...]

National Societies in Western Europe were this week again on the alert for dangerously high temperatures and an increased risk [...]

By the Climate Centre A new study from the World Weather Attribution group of international scientists says the extreme rainfall [...]

By the Climate CentreTropical Storm Bonnie swept east to west through Central America over the weekend, just to the north [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Urban Forum (WUF11) ended in the Polish city of Katowice Thursday, with one of [...]

By Maarten van Aalst, Climate Centre Director, The Hague The Climate Centre is twenty years old today. Or to be [...]

By the Climate Centre The 2022 UN ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) in New York today heard strong calls from [...]

By the Climate Centre The Council of the Delegates in Geneva today resolved to scale up anticipatory action to better [...]

By the Climate Centre The Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) Monday released a report on “commitments, trends, challenges and opportunities” [...]

IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday paid tribute to volunteers and staff of National Societies in responding to multiple challenges [...]

By the Climate Centre Francesco Rocca was yesterday elected to a second four-year term as IFRC president by representatives of [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC today launched its first global Heat Action Day as the American, French and Spanish [...]

By the Climate Centre The ICRC says armed conflict and climate change are threatening the production of honey in Yemen, [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization today put at about 70 per cent the chances of the current [...]

By the Climate Centre A new inter-agency research effort, supported by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme, intended to strengthen [...]

By the Climate Centre The annual Bonn climate change conference began yesterday, the same day the UN’s two major food [...]

By the Climate Centre A joint statement Friday by hosts Sweden and Kenya at the end of the Stockholm+50 conference [...]

By the Climate Centre The three southernmost provinces of Angola are suffering a fifth consecutive year of drought, decimating crops, [...]

By the Climate Centre A joint report by the IFRC and WWF says nature-based solutions could reduce the intensity of [...]