By the Climate Centre The Middle East and North Africa had their hottest year on record in 2024, and the [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund described 2024 as a “pivotal year”, with a significant increase in [...]

By the IFRC(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva yesterday.) The IFRC is responding [...]

By the Climate Centre The Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) has now completed activation of both parts of its Early [...]

By the Climate CentreAs COP 30 closes with what UN organizers are calling a global Mutirão – a Portuguese word [...]

By the Climate Centre Arguing that only through locally led adaptation to climate change (LLA) will vulnerable people feel the [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued jointly yesterday in Belem, Panama City and Geneva. A Climate Centre story [...]

By the Climate Centre Mexico needs better data and a wider network of meteorological stations to understand how climate change [...]

By the Climate CentreThe number of countries with multi-hazard early warning systems has reached a record high of 119 and [...]

By the Climate Centre Many of the nearly 120 million people in the world currently uprooted by conflict and their [...]

By Olivier Cottray, ESRI (This blog appeared first on the ESRI website. It has been edited here for length.) On [...]

By the Climate CentreReporting that Kenya is “in the grip of a worsening climate and humanitarian crisis,” the IFRC last [...]

Climate change significantly increased wind speeds and rainfall from Hurricane Melissa, according to a new rapid analysis by World Weather [...]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued jointly in Kingston, Geneva and Panama City yesterday.) By the IFRCThe IFRC [...]

(This piece appeared first in The Conversation on Tuesday.) By Alexander Baker, University of Reading, and Liz Stephens, University of [...]

By the Climate Centre The online segment of this year’s two-part Development and Climate Days was held today, with a [...]

By the Climate Centre The amount of money going to developing countries to help them cope with and recover from [...]

By the Climate CentreA new report from the British Red Cross on people’s experience of flooding shows that the ability [...]

By the Climate Centre Jamaicans were Monday preparing for the expected landfall on the south coast overnight of Hurricane Melissa, [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC today released its key messages to the forthcoming UN climate talk in Brazil, leading with [...]

By Fleur Monasso and Sayanti Sengupta, Climate CentreA stocktake last month by nearly 40 European cities and regions involved in [...]

By the Climate Centre The 2015 Paris Agreement could help the world avoid nearly 60 excessively hot days if countries [...]

By the Climate Centre A new report by the Climate Centre looks at the extent to which climate services for [...]

By the Climate Centre   (This appeal was announced first in an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Wednesday.) [...]

By the Climate CentreKenya faces a “high likelihood of crop failure” as well as depleted pasture, acute water scarcity and [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hail storms, new research [...]

By the Climate Centre (Seven Colombian scientists will contribute to the next report on the global climate from the Intergovernmental [...]

By Dorothy Heinrich and Liz Stephens in Antananarivo (A longer version of this piece in English and French, with more [...]

By the Climate Centre IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday joined a high-level dialogue on early warning and extreme heat [...]

By the Climate Centre The ICRC has published its special appeal for 2025 that aims to enhance the resilience of [...]

By the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued last week in Suva, Kuala Lumpur and Geneva. It [...]

By the Climate Centre The annual survey of water resources from the World Meteorological Organization says the global “water cycle [...]

By the IFRC(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Santiago, Chile last Thursday.) More than 100 representatives from [...]

By the Climate Centre The 2025 youth climate summit, the fifth in the annual series, acknowledged how “the role of [...]

By Eleonora Zomer, Italian Red Cross (volunteer) and Paulo LimaA version of this article appeared first on the website of [...]

By the Climate Centre Climate change made the hot, dry, windy conditions that fuelled the wildfires EU scientists say have [...]

By Jana Bischler, ILO, Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, and Matthew Walsham, FAO (A version of this blog, by the co-chairs of [...]

By the Climate Centre The IFRC Friday announced it had launched an emergency appeal for 3 million Swiss francs to [...]

By Bart van den Hurk, Scientific Director at Deltares and IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair (This post appeared first on [...]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization and the World Health Organization today published a new report and guidance [...]

By the Climate CentreThe IFRC yesterday published a detailed study of Red Cross Red Crescent work to address displacement caused [...]

By the Climate Centre The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Monday announced it had appointed 664 experts from 111 [...]

By the IFRC (This story appeared first on the IFRC website on Friday. It has been edited here for length.) [...]

By the Climate Centre Norway, Sweden and Finland, all of which lie partly above the Arctic Circle, last month saw [...]

By the Climate Centre Human-induced climate change intensified by as much as 15 per cent the recent monsoon rain in [...]

By Tilly Alcayna, Senior Technical Adviser: Health and Climate Change, Climate Centre A research paper jointly authored by the Climate [...]

By the Climate CentreThe World Meteorological Organization has established a new world record for the longest lightning flash – 829km [...]

By the Climate Centre The meteorological service of Türkiye’s Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change last weekend confirmed a [...]