Temperature records again set to be broken amid dangerous new European heatwave
July 23, 2019
At least yellow alerts for extreme heat were in force as of midday Tuesday in […]
IFRC: Severe flooding puts more than 4 million people in Bangladesh at risk of food insecurity and disease
July 19, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today. With support from the German […]
IFRC: Nearly 6m people in South Asia threatened by monsoon floods
July 17, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday in Kuala Lumpur and […]
Urgent action needed to tackle climate change’s ‘silent killer’: heatwaves
July 16, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in New York and Geneva.) […]
Ireland: ‘Put the most vulnerable at the centre of our work’
July 15, 2019
A panel at the UN in New York heard a strong call Friday from Ireland’s […]
‘Higher than average’ monsoon rainfall triggers humanitarian interventions across Asia
July 15, 2019
The IFRC said late last week that heavy monsoon rain had triggered landslides in camps […]
The battle against extreme heat: IFRC will issue new guidelines to assist cities next week
July 11, 2019
IFRC President Francesco Rocca – at a press conference at UN HQ in New York […]
‘One climate-crisis disaster is happening every week’
July 9, 2019
Mami Mizutori, the UN secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction (photo, centre), has said […]
‘Hotter but less deadly? Preparedness may cut toll of Europe’s heatwave’
July 4, 2019
(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The […]
WMO: ‘Visible and increasing urgency of climate action’ in focus at the UN Abu Dhabi climate meeting
July 1, 2019
After a week in which much of Europe was engulfed by extreme heat, the World […]
Climate change, conflict and resilience: Debating humanitarian policy at a high-level round table in Amman
July 1, 2019
(This story appeared first on the ICRC website last month. It has been edited slightly […]
Red Cross Red Crescent launches Climate Training Kit 2.0
June 28, 2019
The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre today launched an updated and expanded version of […]
International Federation at ECOSOCHAS: ‘Listen to the science on climate’
June 27, 2019
IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy Tuesday issued a new call for the international community […]
Air pollution and irrigation mask true severity of Indian heatwave, study shows
June 26, 2019
(A longer version of this article, by scientists of the World Weather Attribution collaboration that […]
Red Cross urges public to check on neighbours as Europe braces for heatwave
June 25, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release that appeared on its news site earlier today.) […]
‘We need to talk about conflict and climate change’
June 18, 2019
(This article appeared first in The Canberra Times last week. Leonard Blazeby is ICRC Head […]
4th International Solferino Youth Meeting includes workshop on ‘major humanitarian challenge’ of climate change
June 17, 2019
(This is an edited version of the press release issued in Geneva and Rome that […]
Northern summer heatwaves on separate continents may set modern-era records
June 13, 2019
The IFRC in Europe yesterday said an 80-year temperature record had been broken in the […]
UN humanitarian chief, praising German leadership on early action, announces $45m for Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya
June 7, 2019
Mark Lowcock, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Wednesday told an audience in Berlin he […]
Norwegian Red Cross research ‘leaves no doubt’ about scale of global commitment required on climate
June 6, 2019
The Secretary General of the Norwegian Red Cross, Bernt Apeland, says the evidence of the […]
Bangladesh: How forecast-based financing supported objective decision-making in advance of Cyclone Fani
June 6, 2019
(This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC news site. It has been edited slightly […]
EU science academies: growing evidence climate change affecting human health
June 5, 2019
Experts from 27 national science academies in the European Union say in a new report […]
Cook Islands prepares for ‘early action rainfall watch’
May 30, 2019
(A version of this story first appeared last week on the SPREP news site.) Cook […]
Afghanistan: millions still in desperate need after flood crisis
May 22, 2019
(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site yesterday.) Afghan Red Crescent volunteers and […]
IFRC at #GPDRR2019: ‘Let’s be climate smart and risk informed in all we do’
May 17, 2019
The week-long Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, hosted by the Swiss government in Geneva […]
UN: ‘If we continue engaging with each other and the planet as we do, then our very survival is in doubt’
May 16, 2019
(This story appeared first on the Thomson Reuters Foundation news site yesterday and has been […]
IFRC: Cyclone Idai casts a shadow over global disaster conference
May 15, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday. It has been edited […]
‘Early warning must reach the last metre. The last mile is not enough’
May 15, 2019
The Second Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conference (MHEWC) organized by the World Meteorological Organization ended in […]
Netherlands wants development programming that’s sensitive to both conflict and climate
May 8, 2019
The Dutch government last week called for “more and better [development] programming that is both […]
With climate change ‘greatest long-term threat’ facing Maldives, Red Crescent 2030 strategy focuses on resilience
May 8, 2019
The recently launched Maldivian Red Crescent (MRC) Strategic Plan 2019–2030 calls for the inclusion of […]
Afghanistan: ‘Drought has finished all our livestock – now it’s killing people’
May 8, 2019
(This personal story was one of three told to Gorata Fembo published by the IFRC’s […]
Early warning for waves helping to build resilience in Tuvalu
May 7, 2019
(This story appeared first last week on the website of the Secretariat of the Pacific […]
UN praises ‘almost pinpoint accuracy’ of forecast-based warnings, with clean-up underway in India and Bangladesh from Cyclone Fani
May 6, 2019
The UN and local media have praised the accuracy of the forecast-based warnings that kept […]
IFRC: One of the strongest storms to strike the Indian subcontinent in decades makes landfall
May 3, 2019
(This story first appeared on the IFRC news site earlier today.) Cyclone Fani, one of […]
Green Climate Fund looking for ‘last mile’ project proposals (like FbF)
May 3, 2019
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) says it’s looking for more project proposals that incorporate the […]
New papers highlight potential of social protection in managing climate risk
May 1, 2019
The IFRC together with the United Nations children’s agency Unicef and the UK Department for […]
Hong Kong Red Cross explores the ‘climate message’ through games
May 1, 2019
The Climate Centre last week facilitated a three-day training session on climate games for the […]
Second Mozambique cyclone: is history pointing finger at climate change?
May 1, 2019
The IFRC yesterday said lives are still at risk in the far north of Mozambique […]
A ‘mega event of ideas’ in Pakistan for tackling climate change
April 24, 2019
The Pakistan Red Crescent Society and the German Red Cross Monday announced the results of […]
IFRC at centenary climate and health conference in Cannes: a call for ‘inspiration, resolve, leadership’
April 17, 2019
The major global conference on climate and health organized by the French Red Cross in […]
‘We don’t want 2 degrees. We want 1.5 or we will become the nomads of the Pacific. Our home, our paradise, will disappear’
April 15, 2019
The major global conference on climate and health organized by the French Red Cross has got […]
The first ‘humanitarian COP’
April 12, 2019
(Editors: an IFRC media advisory to mark this occasion was issued yesterday in Cannes and Geneva.) […]
CBA13: ‘We want dignified communities, self-reliant communities able to solve their own climate issues’
April 10, 2019
More than 250 people attended the 13th international conference on community-based adaptation to climate change (CBA13) in Addis Ababa […]
Forging partnerships for early warning early action in Tuvalu
April 7, 2019
The challenges of reaching the ‘last mile’ and building the partnerships needed to address them […]
‘Iran is under water’
April 5, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release issued on Wednesday.) As the flooding emergency in […]
‘Storm-hit Mozambique must rebuild for “tomorrow’s climate”’
March 28, 2019
(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has […]
IFRC: Climate change increasing hardship in Afghanistan where 10m people living with aftermath of extreme weather
March 28, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Kabul, Kuala Lumpur and […]
IFRC Secretary General: Speed, quality and scale of response critical to preventing disease outbreaks in Mozambique
March 27, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva […]
Uganda Red Cross pioneers Y-Adapt in Africa
March 27, 2019
The Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) earlier this year became the first National Society in […]
New professorship will boost role of science in humanitarian mission to reduce climate risk
March 26, 2019
(A version of this story first appeared earlier today as a press release from the […]
Australian cyclones: ‘Know your weather, know your risk’
March 25, 2019
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said Saturday it had “mobilized its full national resources well in […]
Cyclone Idai in Mozambique: ‘The scale of this crisis is staggering’
March 23, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday in Beira, Nairobi and Geneva. New […]
Red Cross deploys ERUs to Beira as Idai survivors arrive by sea
March 22, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC yesterday in Beira, Nairobi and […]
Mozambique: ‘Many, many families have lost everything’
March 19, 2019
(This story is a press release issued earlier today by the IFRC jointly in Beira, […]
First aerial views: devastation in Beira after Cyclone Idai
March 18, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva and Nairobi earlier […]
IFRC releases humanitarian cash for Mozambique as Cyclone Idai makes landfall
March 14, 2019
The IFRC Thursday released US$ 344,000 in cash from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to […]
Emergency teams in Mozambique on alert as ‘dangerous and powerful’ Tropical Cyclone Idai bears down on coast
March 13, 2019
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Nairobi and Geneva yesterday.) […]
Harnessing humour to address risk: Red Cross Red Crescent launches cartoon caption competition
March 6, 2019
The evidence is irrefutable: Humour can help improve communication, build relationships, enhance problem solving, and enable difficult […]
Report: Heat-related deaths and illness largely preventable
March 1, 2019
A new technical report on heatwaves believed to be the first of its kind commissioned […]
Indian Red Cross signs on dotted line for strengthened collaboration with met department on forecasts, extremes, resilience
February 27, 2019
The Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) and the Indian government’s Earth System Science Organization umbrella […]
‘Quite exceptional’ winter heatwave in UK sets new temperature records
February 27, 2019
The British Met Office today confirmed that new one-day temperature records for February and winter […]
‘From Iraq and Pakistan to the Caribbean, climate change is driving threats of new insecurity and violence’
February 21, 2019
(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation; it […]
IFRC: Hundreds of thousands ‘worryingly exposed’ in Cox’s Bazar camps ahead of cyclone and monsoon seasons
February 19, 2019
(This story appeared first on the IFRC website yesterday. It has been edited here for […]
‘Early action protocol’ in place to protect Peru’s alpaca herders
February 14, 2019
The IFRC reported Tuesday that the first early-action protocol of the forecast-based component of its […]
CNN report on Red Cross help to Zimbabwe’s farmers facing ‘triple challenge’ of climate change, food security and HIV
February 14, 2019
A CNN International Edition report says a community-resilience programme run by a partnership of the […]
With South Pacific cyclone season underway, Red Cross societies prepared and ready
February 13, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Suva, Kuala Lumpur and […]
Climate and disaster: PfR-supported seminar for East African journalists
February 12, 2019
Partners for Resilience agencies late last month hosted a week-long seminar for nearly 40 journalists […]
WMO: Past 22 years include 20 warmest on record
February 8, 2019
In what it describes as “a clear sign of continuing long-term climate change associated with […]
‘The world from which the humanitarian system emerged no longer exists’
February 8, 2019
This year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships (HNPW) week in Geneva Wednesday heard calls from senior […]
Red Cross emergency teams watch for further flooding in N. Queensland
February 7, 2019
The Australian Red Cross yesterday said its emergency teams on the north coast of Queensland […]
Report highlights ‘alarming vulnerability’ of Himalayan region – even in optimistic climate scenarios
February 6, 2019
A landmark study released Monday that brought together 350 researchers and policy experts from more […]
Annual Report 2018
February 1, 2019
A year of progress for forecast-based financing. Find our multimedia report here.
Red Cross urges public to check on people during big freeze
February 1, 2019
(A version of this story appeared earlier today as an IFRC press release.) The IFRC is calling […]
IPCC starts work on impacts and adaptation for next global climate assessment
January 29, 2019
Scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who cover impacts, adaptation and vulnerability […]
First ever ICRC contribution to Security Council debate on climate
January 28, 2019
The ICRC’s Permanent Observer to the UN, Robert Mardini, Friday told an open Security Council […]
Influenza and extreme cold among ‘deadly risks’ combining against Mongolia’s children
January 24, 2019
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Ulaanbaatar and Geneva.) An […]
Understanding the need for climate adaptation of small and medium enterprises in Kenya and Uganda
January 23, 2019
A summary of a 2018 study in eight urban areas of Kenya and Uganda on […]
‘Conflict and climate nexus’ unpacked at Nairobi high-level round table
January 18, 2019
The first of a 2019 series of high-level round tables on the interconnected vulnerabilities and […]
Anticipatory action tops list in UN blueprint for future humanitarian funding
January 18, 2019
The UN humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, has proposed expanding three approaches to funding to close […]
World Bank to put support for adaptation ‘on a par’ with mitigation for first time
January 16, 2019
Arguing that climate change “poses an acute and increasing threat to global development”, the World […]
Alpine regions see deaths amid ‘schneechaos’
January 14, 2019
Meteoalarm red alerts for dangerously heavy snowfall or avalanches were in force Monday for Alpine […]
National Societies across Asia Pacific and Mideast grapple with impacts of damaging seasonal-weather
January 10, 2019
The Red Cross Red Crescent across the Asia Pacific region and in the Middle East […]
‘The focus shall not be on cost but on economic and social benefits of adaptation and resilience’
January 8, 2019
The UN yesterday issued an official outcome document from the Marrakech Partnership round table on […]
Global humanitarian agencies list conflict, migration and climate among top priorities for 2019
January 7, 2019
Humanitarian agencies surveyed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation have said they are bracing for “a […]
‘Small numbers, tremendous change’
January 3, 2019
(This article appeared frst in the print edition of the latest Red Cross Red Crescent […]
World-first expert forum charts possible ways forward on killer heatwaves
January 2, 2019
Amid widespread scientific agreement that with climate change potentially lethal heatwaves are starting earlier and […]
Australian Red Cross again confronting ‘biggest killer’ among natural disasters
January 2, 2019
With the southern-hemisphere summer approaching its peak, the Australian Red Cross (ARC) is again warning […]
IFRC: Extreme weather intensifies ‘chronic forgotten crisis’ in North Korea
January 2, 2019
(A version of this story appeared first on the IFRC news site late last month) […]
Review of the Year 2018
December 19, 2018
A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2018 through the […]
Inter-agency effort to assist Tuvalu with early warning and action for drought
December 19, 2018
Drought is a tricky hazard to prepare for in the Pacific – a silent, slow-onset […]
New IFRC report addresses climate change as #1 threat-multiplier for displacement in Asia Pacific
December 18, 2018
An IFRC report launched last week at the ISDR-Asia Partnership Forum in Bangkok says migration […]
IFRC welcomes prospect of ‘new era of global climate action’
December 16, 2018
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today.) The IFRC today welcomed the […]
Research: Heatwaves, droughts and floods among recent weather extremes linked to climate change
December 13, 2018
New research published on Monday, as the second week of UN climate talks in Poland […]
‘A warming world raises “scary” prospects for poor food producers who face lower harvests and competition for land’
December 13, 2018
(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Sunday.) In […]
IFRC at COP resilience event: ‘We need to move away from debating value for money to value for people’
December 10, 2018
A round table alongside the climate talks in Poland today heard a wide range of […]
‘Follow the science,’ lead climate negotiator for LDCs tells Development and Climate Days closing event
December 9, 2018
The lead climate negotiator for the world’s least developed countries has called for action on […]
At D&C Days in Katowice, a recipe for eradicating world hunger
December 9, 2018
The role of cooks in advocating for the second Sustainable Development Goal – to wipe […]
Half a degree matters. Opening D&C Days plenary centres on IPCC special report on global temperature-rise scenarios
December 8, 2018
The two-day annual Development and Climate Days workshop opened this morning in Katowice alongside the United […]
At COP 24, PfR argues for ‘large-scale initiatives to transform whole landscapes, rural and urban, into safer and more prosperous places’
December 4, 2018
The Partners for Resilience alliance – in a joint statement today shortly after the annual […]
Climate-related training for trainers at IFRC Asia Pacific HQ
December 4, 2018
More than 20 participants from National Societies and IFRC offices across the Asia Pacific region […]