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By the Climate Centre The Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have this week been affected by intense[..]

by the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva earlier today.) The IFRC today called for[..]

By the Climate Centre (The full IPCC report and a special cartoon interpretation are now available on our website. The[..]

by the Climate Centre Even the Arctic, previously all but immune, now faces a rising risk of wildfires, experts say[..]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi yesterday.) As parts of Southern Africa are reeling from the[..]

by the Climate Centre (The new report will be discussed today Tuesday starting 14:00 UTC on a Zoom webinar.) An[..]

by the Climate Centre The current cycle of assessment of the global climate, the sixth or 6AR, is the most[..]

by the Climate Centre Five years of work by the Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience programme was marked at[..]

by the Tajikistan Red Crescent (This story appeared first late last month on the Anticipation Hub. It has been edited[..]

By Manannan Donoghoe, Oxford University, and the Climate Centre The year 2020 was unprecedented, and not only because of Covid-19;[..]

by Sajanika Sivanu and Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, GermanyThe Climate Centre has published a new brief that examines how social[..]

by Sajanika Sivanu and Sayanti Sengupta, Climate Centre, Germany A recent Climate Centre publication offers an overview of the role[..]

The IFRC Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) today released a further third of a million Swiss francs to support Malagasy[..]

by the Climate Centre The agility of Red Cross societies and their international partners helped to blunt the impacts of[..]

By the Climate Centre A website operated by Spanish partners of the World Meteorological Organization was “totally redesigned” and relaunched[..]

by the Climate Centre The British government yesterday released the latest in its series of five-yearly assessments of the climate[..]

by the Climate Centre Nearly two years after the first Covid-19 cases countries are reporting record outbreaks of the Omicron[..]

by the Climate Centre The IFRC late last month published its Global Plan 2022, detailing how it will help National[..]

By the Climate Centre The World Meteorological Organization last month officially recognized a temperature of 38.0°C observed in June 2020[..]

by Rebeka Ryvola de Kremer, Climate Centre, Washington, DC The first-ever collaboration between the Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum[..]

by the Climate Centre (A non-exhaustive look back through the eyes of the Climate Centre news service of the year’s[..]

by Cale Johnstone, Mexican Red Cross(This blog was originally published last month on the Flood Resilience Portal.) Since 2014 the Mexican[..]

by the Climate Centre Arguing that forecasts of what the weather will do – impact-based forecasting – as well as[..]

By World Weather Attribution (This story is a press release issued to the media yesterday by the World Weather Attribution[..]

By the Climate Centre The United Nations and its partners today launched the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022 (GHO), which estimates[..]

by the IFRC (This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kingston, Jamaica last month.) Adolescents overwhelmingly feel they[..]

By Tesse de Boer, Climate Centre People from at least 15 different stakeholder agencies last month took part in a[..]

By Tilly Alcayna, Climate Centre, London A research report by the Climate Centre compiled for the Adaptation Research Alliance launched[..]

by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Glasgow (This story appeared first last week on the website of Thomson Reuters Foundation.[..]

by the Climate Centre (This joint statement by IFRC President Francesco Rocca and Secretary General Jagan Chapagain was first published[..]

by the Climate Centre (The full key messages from this year’s Development and Climate Days were first published on the[..]

by the Climate Centre Development and Climate Days ended alongside COP 26 yesterday with a closing panel that was moderated[..]

by the University of Reading (This story appeared first yesterday on the news website of the University of Reading.) Reading[..]

by the Climate Centre The Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, today told a COP 26 event “there is no[..]

By the Climate Centre A record number of people are expected to attend this year’s Development and Climate Days, which[..]

by the Climate Centre Three UN agencies at COP 26 last week announced the creation of a Systematic Observations Finance[..]

by the Climate Centre(A full rundown of Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at COP 26 is online, including D&C Days[..]

By Hugo Slim, Oxford (This story appeared first last week on the website of The New Humanitarian, a news agency[..]

by the Climate Centre (A full rundown of Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at COP 26 is online, including D&C[..]

(This statement was issued Friday and signed by Mike Adamson, CEO of the British Red Cross, IFRC Secretary General Jagan[..]

by the Climate Centre (A full rundown of Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at COP 26 is online, including D&C[..]

by the Climate Centre (A full rundown of Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at COP 26 which began yesterday, including[..]

by Devin O’Donnell and Tilly Alcayna, Climate Centre (A full rundown of Red Cross Red Crescent engagement at COP 26,[..]

by Dr Asha Mohammed, Secretary General, Kenya Red Cross (This story appeared first on Friday on the website of the[..]

by the IFRC (This story is a press release issued by the IFRC on Thursday. A full rundown of Red[..]

By Robert Mardini, ICRC Director-General (This statement, timed to coincide with the lead-up to COP 26, appeared first on the[..]

By the Climate Centre Yolanda Kakabadse, a former Ecuadoran environment minister, was yesterday appointed to chair the Climate Centre’s board,[..]

by the Climate Centre The planet is in a “severe climate crisis” but humanity has never been better equipped to[..]

(The following statement on behalf of the 160 signatories to the charter was first posted by the IFRC and ICRC[..]

by the Climate Centre Major international donors gathered online yesterday to pledge new or renewed funding to the IFRC’s Disaster[..]

by the Climate Centre The presidents of the IFRC and ICRC yesterday called on world leaders to implement “a rapid[..]