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Study: Global flood-risk can be contained by intensifying adaptation

April 22, 2015
Vulnerability to river-flood danger around the world is declining, according to a study in the […]

A Pacific first: understanding climate risk through games

April 20, 2015
In a first for the Pacific, community-focused teams from ten Pacific island nations have come […]

The Economist on disaster: ‘forewarned is forearmed’

April 14, 2015
A detailed news briefing on volcanic eruptions and their climate impacts in the current issue […]

Programme managers from Ethiopia, Germany, SA pool experience in new handbook on climate adaptation

April 13, 2015
A new handbook book has been compiled by programme managers from Ethiopia, Germany and South Africa […]

‘Paying for predictions’ at Tacloban media workshop on climate

April 1, 2015
The Philippine Climate Change Commission (CCC), jointly with the United Nations Development Programme and the […]

Forecast-based financing key to early disaster-response

March 27, 2015
(This blog post was first published by the ICRC regional delegation in Delhi on 24 March 2015.) […]

WMO: Thousands of lives saved by better forecasting, early warning and readiness

March 24, 2015
Thousands of lives have been saved around the world over the past year alone by […]

New 15-year global framework recognizes climate change as a driver of disaster risk

March 19, 2015
The new global framework for policy and programming on disaster risk reduction (DRR) “outlines clear targets and […]

At Sendai, IFRC announces ‘One Billion Coalition for Resilience’

March 16, 2015
IFRC President Tadateru Konoe yesterday presented the International Federation’s voluntary commitment toward post-2015 disaster risk […]

‘Let’s square up to the task’: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands speaks to UN conference on disaster risk

March 15, 2015
(Full text of today's speech by HRH Princess Margriet of the Netherlands at the opening […]

Lethal Pacific storm marks start of Sendai disaster conference, as IFRC and UN call for ‘unprecedented cooperation’ on climate

March 14, 2015
The opening over the weekend of the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) […]

‘Long-anticipated’ El Niño officially here, but expected to stay weak without major influence on weather

March 9, 2015
US scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say the technical threshold for […]

Losses from river floods to worsen significantly by 2030, says new global ‘risk analyzer’

March 5, 2015
River flooding will “affect more people and cause significantly more damage by 2030” because of […]

Introducing humanitarians and environmentalists to decision-science insights and applications

March 2, 2015
An increasing number of scientific disciplines focus on understanding how and why people make decisions and […]

Germany continues ‘paradigm shift’ in preparedness with drive for new forecast-based financing trials

February 25, 2015
Germany's Federal Foreign Office and the German Red Cross (GRC) this week distributed a six-point action plan for […]

Weather and climate warnings ‘do little’ to protect farmers and vulnerable people in developing world

February 20, 2015
(This story first appeared on www.trust.org last Friday 13 February.) Warnings of extreme weather and climate threats […]

UNICEF and Climate Centre address health risks in Ghana through serious play

February 17, 2015
Some 12,000 Ghanaian children die each year from diseases that could be prevented by hand-washing […]

Better use of climate information could bolster African development, says new report

February 13, 2015
Better use of climate information could help promote development in sub-Saharan Africa, according to a […]

IFRC humanitarian cash for Albania after ‘worst floods since 1971’

February 9, 2015
The IFRC is releasing more than a quarter of a million US dollars in emergency […]

As Davos meeting closes, climate ‘warning shots’ from Africa and Pacific

January 29, 2015
When global figures gathered in the Swiss resort of Davos last week for the annual […]

WEF report: Extreme weather second only to conflict as ‘likely’ source of global risk

January 21, 2015
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) begins in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, today, and among the featured […]

IFRC mobilizes to help nations in Southern Africa hit by disastrous seasonal floods

January 16, 2015
Tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes in Malawi, Mozambique […]

A high-tech future for humanitarians one step closer after Red Cross Red Crescent summit in NL

January 9, 2015
Clusters of unmanned aerial vehicles that could relay mobile-phone signals using a “mesh network” to restore communications […]

El Niño: We’re still in limbo, says International Research Institute for Climate and Society

January 8, 2015
The Pacific Ocean remains primed for an El Niño event, according to the Australian Bureau of […]

Final data for 2014 set to confirm ‘no standstill in global warming’

January 5, 2015
International meteorologists say last year is on course to become the hottest ever recorded in […]

Global agreement on climate in 2015 ‘important step’ closer after COP 20 in Peru

December 15, 2014
A global agreement on climate change that will harness action by all nations “took a […]

‘Rethinking possible futures’ through solar-powered, lighter-than-air sculpture at D&C Days

December 6, 2014
An ambitious, cooperative project to create solar-powered, lighter-than-air sculptures at Development and Climate Days (“D&C […]

Red Cross community work in Pacific is ‘solid base’ for planning climate adaptation

November 6, 2014
Community-based approaches are increasingly emphasized as the most viable for planning and implementing climate adaptation […]

Climate change impacts already felt ‘on all continents and across the oceans’, says IPCC

November 2, 2014
By the Climate Centre The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today published the full […]

New study of downstream effects of El Nino on flood risk

October 20, 2014
(This article was first published by Climate Central on 20 October 2014.) The phantom El Niño continues to hold […]

Environment and climate change: The impact of climate change on human mobility

October 18, 2014
The climate is a key determinant of where people live and climate change can lead […]

IFRC World Disasters Report: climate change contributing to ‘a new era of risk’

October 16, 2014
This year, World Disasters Report takes on a challenging theme as it questions why culture is […]

Final conference in Climate Forum East finds fun ways to point up health challenges

October 14, 2014
Participants at the final conference of the Climate Forum East project, in the Belarus capital […]

Join us for the 12th Development & Climate Days at COP 20 in Lima

October 13, 2014
At the Country Club Lima Hotel during COP 20 in Lima 6–7 December 2014 #zerozero For the first time […]

IFRC announces ‘information to action’ initiative at UN Climate Summit in New York

September 23, 2014
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today announced a “Climate […]

Ebola and climate impacts in Africa: Is there a link?

September 21, 2014
For the first time in its history, the United Nations has created an international mission […]

New Pacific partnerships announced as UN small islands conference closes in Samoa

September 4, 2014
The IFRC and the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) today signed a […]

First-ever global conference on climate and health ends at WHO in Geneva

September 3, 2014
The first-ever global conference on climate and health ended last Friday at the Geneva headquarters of the […]

Cultivating resilience in Guatemala: agreement to consolidate ‘inter-institutional cooperation’

August 28, 2014
Guatemala’s Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARN), the National Coordination for Disaster Reduction […]

New global campaign on ‘vital’ weather and climate services for small island states

August 8, 2014
A global campaign to improve weather and climate services for all small island developing states […]

Climate Centre joins White House ’round table’ on agriculture and food resilience

August 5, 2014
Intense heatwaves, heavier downpours, and severe droughts and wildfires. These are all climate impacts projected […]

‘Gender and climate change’: New Australian Red Cross briefing paper

July 30, 2014
The latest addition last week to the Australian Red Cross (ARC) series of online gender briefing […]

Gender and climate change

July 27, 2014
This guidance note outlines how climate change can impact men and women differently and identifies […]

What’s in it for them? New CDKN ‘resource pack’ on climate change in Africa and South Asia

July 23, 2014
The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) last week launched a comprehensive resource pack “to […]

Factoring climate and urban risk into assessment: new IFRC guidance

July 22, 2014
The IFRC yesterday announced the release of its new supplementary guidance, Integrating Climate Change and […]

Turning climate science into animations: A lesson in teamwork from the Pacific

July 18, 2014
Two humorous animation films by an alliance of agencies in the Pacific link climate science […]

In fight against extreme poverty, World Bank to screen investments for ‘climate and disaster risk’

July 18, 2014
As of this month, US$ 52 billion of new development investment in the World Bank’s […]

Participatory games summer school at the Universita della Svizzera italiana

July 11, 2014
Last month’s Humanitarian Summer School on games for development and humanitarian work was the first […]

New German support for ‘humanitarian challenges of climate change’ includes forecast-based funding

July 10, 2014
Germany – in a bid to improve understanding between humanitarians and climate scientists – has […]

‘Actionable information’ at the Understanding Risk Forum 2014

July 4, 2014
The biennial forum of Understanding Risk (UR), whose theme was “producing actionable information”, ended at […]

WMO: ‘Prepare for El Nino’

July 1, 2014
Many governments are now preparing for an El Niño – associated with regional-scale drought and […]

Harnessing ‘human computation’ for 21st century humanitarianism

June 24, 2014
World experts in the emerging field of “human computation” gathered in Washington, DC last week […]

Climate Centre trains UN agro-development specialists in game facilitation

June 12, 2014
The Climate Centre last week ran a two-day training session in game facilitation for staff […]

Philippines calls for ‘focused international effort’ to meet climate threats

June 6, 2014
President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines yesterday said it is now vital to mount “a […]

‘Future climate for Africa’ – pointers on resilience from Zambia

May 29, 2014
Officials, academics, scientists and development practitioners last week gathered at two workshops in Zambia to […]

‘Unprecedented’ river levels behind Serbia floods, says World Meteorological Organization

May 25, 2014
Deadly floods and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia were caused by “some […]

Somali Red Crescent rolls out participatory climate games

May 22, 2014
Resources from the Climate Centre’s Climate Training Kit were rolled out for the first time […]

Global learning: PfR ‘writeshops’ in South-East Asia and Central America

May 15, 2014
Professionally facilitated “writeshops” last June in Bali, Indonesia, and earlier this year in Guatemala and […]

Forecast-based financing could ‘catalyze humanitarian action’, says new research

May 9, 2014
A new research paper by specialists from the Climate Centre, German Red Cross, Royal Netherlands […]

CBA8 conference ends with call for financial help for vulnerable communities to adapt

May 2, 2014
The 8th Annual Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA8) ended in the Nepalese capital this week […]

El Nino by northern autumn ‘at least 75% likely’, but potential strength uncertain

April 25, 2014
The New York-based International Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), an IFRC partner organization, this […]

IPCC: GHG emissions up despite reduction efforts, but pathways to substantial cuts are available

April 17, 2014
(This is a shortened version of the IPCC press release issued from Berlin on 13 […]

When playing helps build resilience in Mali

April 10, 2014
This article was first published on the social reporting blog of the International Fund for […]

George Washington University students ‘Pay for predictions’

April 4, 2014
Before heading off on their spring break, students enrolled in George Washington University (GWU) Geography’s […]

IPCC climate report sounds humanitarian ‘clarion call’

March 31, 2014
(This article was first published by the Thomson Reuters Foundation) The latest report from the […]

IFRC ‘deeply concerned’ by humanitarian consequences of climate risks highlighted in new IPCC report

March 31, 2014
The Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), […]

IFRC publishes online climate course

March 21, 2014
A new course, Climate change – an introduction to staff and volunteers, was launched yesterday […]

‘Sound art’ on a climate theme: competition results

March 20, 2014
The results have been announced in the first-ever international contest for the creation of sound […]

Explaining the global-warming ‘hiatus’: heat sinking into the oceans

March 20, 2014
The Director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Lisa Goddard, explained […]

‘Engagement games’ for real-world action

March 19, 2014
Many of the initiatives that societies take around the world suffer from the same critical […]

‘Taking science to society’: A game on the ethics of providing climate services

March 10, 2014
There is enormous pressure on the climate science community to provide output that is relevant […]

Double the extreme events, five times the losses? Europe faces a flooded future, says new research

March 5, 2014
Flood losses in Europe are likely to increase “considerably” over the next few decades, partly […]

New science satellite promises ‘near real-time’ precipitation measurement anywhere on Earth

February 28, 2014
The world yesterday entered what the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration calls “a new […]

Ready! Lessons in the design of humanitarian games

February 21, 2014
This detailed look at best practice for using games in disaster risk reduction, using the […]

UK Met Office: more research ‘urgently needed’ to refine climate models

February 19, 2014
The British Met Office – in a new report offering a “global perspective” on the […]

How to ‘be Boulder’ with climate communications. A webcam session of Paying for predictions

February 18, 2014
The Climate Centre last Thursday remotely facilitated a session at the University of Colorado-Boulder of […]

In a changing climate, Dutch lottery grant will ‘help tens of thousands’ in Philippines prepare for disasters

February 11, 2014
The Secretary General of the Netherlands Red Cross (NLRC), Gijs de Vries, has welcomed a […]

Science can save lives. But make research accessible

January 31, 2014
(This is an abridged version of an article in the current issue of Nature Geoscience […]

NASA: climate warming continued in 2013

January 24, 2014
Scientists at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) say last year tied with […]

‘Community-based adaptation’: the future

January 20, 2014
A new look at the future of “community-based adaptation” (CBA) has been made available for […]

Caribbean Reference Centre for Disaster Risk Management launches ‘virtual library’

January 15, 2014
The IFRC’s Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Reference Centre (CADRIM), hosted by the Barbados Red Cross […]

Making better use of scientific information – IPCC authors play ‘Decisions for the decade’

January 9, 2014
A group of nearly 40 of the world’s leading climate scientists this week took time […]

Red Cross workers on both sides of Atlantic grapple with brutal winter

January 7, 2014
Countries on both sides of the North Atlantic continue to face very severe winter weather […]

Climate Centre Review of the Year 2013

December 28, 2013
Here are some of the highlights of the Climate Centre year 2013. Please follow links […]

Climate Centre games ‘deep uncertainty’ with World Bank decision-makers

December 24, 2013
A Climate Centre team last month joined a workshop on decision-making at the World Bank […]

UNISDR: Next world conference on DRR, in Japan, should include ‘strong urban focus’

December 12, 2013
The United Nations General Assembly has set the stage for a new global agreement on […]

Ethical issues for ‘climate services’ unpacked at international conference in Jamaica

December 9, 2013
The Third International Conference on Climate Services (“ICCS3”), hosted by the Meteorological Service of Jamaica […]

New training webcasts for climate-resilient development from IRI, USAID

December 5, 2013
The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the US Agency for International […]

Young people and volunteers take lead on climate awareness in Eastern partnership

December 4, 2013
The activities of Climate Forum East (CFE) are now well underway in the six countries […]

White House order on climate seeks to build resilience against weather extremes

November 29, 2013
An executive order from President Obama on climate impacts earlier this month requires federal agencies […]

‘European Development Days’ in Brussels includes brainstorm on climate-risk assessments

November 27, 2013
On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, this year’s European Development Days (EDD13) gathered thousands of […]

At close of UN climate talks, Secretary-General Ban calls for ‘bold announcements and actions’

November 25, 2013
As the UN-led climate talks in Warsaw – COP 19 – ended on Friday, Secretary-General […]

Communications on climate: a role for music?

November 21, 2013
(This is the last in a series of three blogs from the D&C Days side-event […]

With climate adaptation, success breeds success

November 20, 2013
An old saying goes “imitation is the highest form of flattery”. That’s certainly the view […]

Can beans and dice change lives? The potential of serious, fun games

November 19, 2013
The power of games to get people thinking about their climate vulnerability was revealed this […]

Updated standards for climate-smart risk reduction unveiled at ‘buzzing, fruitful’ COP 19 side-event

November 18, 2013
A new edition of the inter-agency Minimum Standards intended to bridge national climate policy and local […]

Second IFRC side-event at COP 19 in Warsaw: the all-weekend ‘Development and Climate Days’

November 16, 2013
The second of two IFRC side-events at the 2013 UN climate talks in Warsaw – […]

Super Typhoon Haiyan: the climate connection

November 15, 2013
People in the Philippines who track climate news won’t have failed to notice that it […]

IFRC engagement with COP 19 side-events gets underway

November 14, 2013
The first of two official side-events co-hosted by the IFRC delegation at the COP 19 […]