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The ICRC Tuesday told the UN Security Council that assistance to the most vulnerable “must go beyond hard security measures[..]

“Country assessments in Afghanistan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan on linkages between climate and health and livelihoods are something[..]

The Climate Centre and the Boston-based Friedman School and Feinstein International Center today announced the appointment of the head of[..]

(This article appeared first on Tuesday on the Africa Portal website.) The aftermath of Cyclone Eloise, which hit Mozambique on[..]

The US-based Nature Conservancy last week launched a major new guide to strategies for nature-based coastal resilience, including input from[..]

Hundreds of representatives from governments, UN, development and humanitarian agencies, universities, and other branches of civil society yesterday attended a[..]

The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening its environmental sustainability and supporting advocacy.[..]

“It’s so important to invest in early warning and early action because all the analysis shows it provides the best[..]

The global summit on climate adaptation (CAS 2021), hosted by the Netherlands, that is getting underway today will, of course,[..]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Geneva today.) The IFRC today announced a major expansion of one[..]

NASA last week joined the Anticipation Hub created by the German Red Cross, the IFRC and the Climate Centre with[..]

The Earth’s surface temperature in 2020 equalled 2016 as the warmest on record, the US space agency NASA said yesterday,[..]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.) Rescue and relief efforts have been ramped[..]

Twenty-twenty equalled the warmest year ever recorded globally, 2016, and it was the warmest on record for Europe, the EU’s[..]

The Climate Action report is out! The Climate Centre is often asked by National Societies and others, “We want to[..]

(This story is based on a press release and departmental text issued by the IFRC late last month.) The IFRC[..]

A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2020 through the eyes of the Climate Centre news[..]

(This story appeared first earlier today of the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Asia-Pacific has faced a record number[..]

An expert meeting on Social protection in a changing climate was held virtually in late November to “discuss big ideas[..]

The IFRC Friday launched its Global Plan 2021 detailing its ten-year Strategy 2030 that has climate change at its centre,[..]

(This is a longer version of the story that appeared on the IFRC website earlier today; a story on its[..]

The Climate Centre is joining a new project launched last week bringing together leaders in research on climate change and[..]

This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading medical journal, says the last[..]

The annual Development and Climate Days meeting was held virtually yesterday and today as one of two parallel events to[..]

This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading medical journal, says the last[..]

Data issued last month by Public Health England puts at 2,556 the “total cumulative all-cause excess mortality” across the three[..]

(This interview with former Climate Centre intern Hannah Sizelove appeared first last month on the website of the Watson Institute[..]

The Climate Centre is this month inviting contributions (here) – letters, drawings, poems and art works – from around the[..]

(This story appeared first in the Bangkok Post last week and on the IFRC news site. It has been slightly[..]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva earlier today.) Global efforts to tackle climate change[..]

(A full version of this article appeared earlier this month in the online magazine of FMO, the Netherlands Entrepreneurial Development[..]

A new flagship report detailing a decade of work in 11 countries by the Partners for Resilience alliance was symbolically[..]

The UN yesterday said it had won Green Climate Fund (GCF) support for a new programme worth nearly US$ 50[..]

An international group of scientists have detailed the process by which they have been able to generate “numerical results actionable[..]

Linking humanitarian action with social protection could provide an opportunity to reach those most at risk from climate change and[..]

(Vietnam’s recent struggle against a back-to-back series of deadly floods and storms can be tracked through four press releases issued[..]

(This story appeared first last week on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited here for[..]

Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense with climate change “and have serious and potentially life-threatening impacts on human health,[..]

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by the UN, the World Bank,[..]

Sweden earlier this week detailed two new climate-related initiatives intended to increase the resilience of the most vulnerable people faced[..]

One in three people globally are still not adequately covered by early-warning systems, despite extreme weather and climate events increasing[..]

(This story is a press release issued yesterday by the IFRC in Pretoria to mark International Disaster Risk Reduction Day;[..]

Extreme-weather events have increased dramatically and now dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century, according to a UN report[..]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been edited slightly here[..]

(The photos from Bangladeh and India used in the Vice Media story can be downloaded from the IFRC’s shaRED platform[..]

At last week’s 6th International Climate Adaptation Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the IFRC (Climate Centre) jointly hosted a[..]

“During the Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing, awareness programmes on climate change were put on hold,” says Astrid, a young Red[..]

Key messages from the ICRC’s recent report on conflict and climate, When Rain Turns to Dust, featured at last week’s[..]

(This story is a press release first issued by the IFRC in Geneva and New York yesterday. It has been[..]

The Climate Centre earlier this month remotely contributed technical and humanitarian input at a two-day training workshop in the Solomon[..]