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The campaign focuses on 14 humanitarian challenges, one of which is climate change. Recently, Rebecca McNaught and Maarten van Aalst[..]

UNFCCC COP15 in Copenhagen El Niño, October 2009 Preparedness for Climate Change Climate change and health report IRI-IFRC Summer Internships[..]

Climate change is contributing to more frequent and deadlier natural disasters, and governments need to speed up measures to mitigate[..]

Wealthy nations are dragging their feet on committing money to help developing countries adapt to climate change, leaving them to[..]

If necessity is the mother of invention, we should be looking forward to a breathtakingly innovative agreement on climate change[..]

Climate related natural disasters like droughts, hurricanes and floods forced 20 million people – slightly less than the population of[..]

In words, world leaders expressed will to combat global warming with a global treaty at the UN summit on climate[..]

Good morning. I want to thank the Secretary-General for organizing this summit, and all the leaders who are participating. That[..]

Geneva,  World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3), which has brought together from 31 August to 4 September 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland, more[..]

PARIS, Sept 2, 2009 (AFP) – Africa and much of south Asia face extreme risk from climate change but top[..]

Typhoon Morakot has made landfall on China’s south east coast having cut a swathe of destruction across the northern Philippines[..]

Under-resourced media are failing rural people in developing countries, who are most vulnerable to climate change and in greater need[..]

To mark the 150th anniversary of the battle of Solferino and to highlight Red Cross and Red Crescent emergency disaster[..]

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has launched a USD$ 8 million initiative to help[..]

To many people enduring its effects worldwide, the global economic crisis must have felt like what we, in the humanitarian[..]

This article reflects upon how gendered approaches to climate-change adaptation can be strengthened in the Pacific region. The article looks[..]

By Bec McNaught (Senior Programme Officer RC/RC Climate Centre) Summary The climate is changing and communities in some countries are[..]