IFRC: Acting before disasters key to saving lives, protecting development in South America

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 annual survey of water resources from the World Meteorological Organization says the global “water cycle has become increasingly erratic and extreme, swinging between deluge and drought”. The detailed assessment of the availability of freshwater, including streams and rivers, reservoirs, lakes, groundwater, soil moisture, snow and ice “highlights the cascading impacts of too much or too [...]
Read moreBy 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 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Monday announced it had appointed 664 experts from 111 [...]