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A workshop in Dar es Salaam last week brought together municipal authorities with multilateral partners […]

(This story appeared first on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It has been […]

Four agricultural cooperatives from semi-arid regions of Morocco joined forces to exhibit their wares to […]

The two-day Development & Climate Days (‘D&C Days’) workshop over the middle weekend of UN climate […]

(As the UN climate talks in Marrakech approach their halfway mark with the traditional Development and Climate […]

Representatives from the National Societies of Armenia, Georgia, Kenya, Malawi and Nepal gathered in Marrakech […]

Governments of the world’s most disaster-prone region, Asia, should pursue a paradigm shift from disaster […]

The historic Paris agreement on the global climate enters into force today Friday, becoming legally […]

New research published last month in the science journal Nature estimates that climate change from […]

(This story appeared first on Tuesday on the IFRC news site. The latest news on […]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday said “a new era of climate reality” has dawned […]

(This article appeared first on the website of the British Red Cross last Thursday 13 […]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC news site.) States must do more […]

Eradicating hunger and poverty must “go hand in hand” with rapid transformation of agriculture to […]

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) last week said September had been “an exceptionally wet […]

US forecasters yesterday reinstated official ‘watch’ status for La Niña under the ENSO alert system; […]

The IFRC publishes its annual World Disasters Report 2016 today – International Day for Disaster Reduction […]

(This interview with Climate Centre Director Maarten van Aalst by Deutsche Welle’s Martin Kuebler was first published […]

The UN announced Wednesday that the historic Paris agreement to address global climate change will […]

(A version of this story by the IFRC’s Ika Koeck was first published yesterday on […]

(Action to respond to disasters, prepare for them, and build resilience against shocks is finally […]

(This story is a press release issued earlier today by the IFRC.) At the close of […]

The first major international conference on the science behind the 1.5°C climate ambition agreed at […]

US forecasters earlier this month cancelled the official ‘watch’ status for La Niña under the […]

(A version of this story was first published last Friday on the IFRC’s news site. […]

The Malawi Red Cross last week convened an all-day workshop in the capital, Lilongwe, to […]

A joint study by scientists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Indian Ocean Regional Intervention Platform – known by its French […]

The IFRC today welcomed the ratification by China and the US of the Paris climate […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the BRACED programme.) Picture this scenario: […]

South Africa’s met office this week said recovery from the El Niño-related drought currently affecting […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent this weekend called for greater investment in community resilience so […]

(This story was published first yesterday by the IFRC, whose emergency appeal for just over […]

(This interview was published first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation – the Climate […]

The IFRC yesterday issued an emergency grant of just under a quarter of a million […]

The Climate Centre last week joined the 12th ‘Atlantis’ Red Cross Red Crescent Mediterranean youth […]

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) last week declared a “regional disaster” and launched an […]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) – the IFRC’s forecasting partners – […]

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday said it would examine whether a reading of 54.0°C […]

Extreme heat as well as destructive rainfall made headlines around the world last week, with […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Climate […]

A report out earlier this week from the British government’s principal advisers on climate says […]

The Vanuatu Meteorological Service (VMS) last week said its new, simpler map that plots cyclones […]

The three major Rome-based UN agencies specializing in food or agriculture this week called for […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the IFRC news site. The Climate Centre’s community resilience […]

Recent operational experience from forecast-based financing humanitarian distributions in Africa and Asia was showcased by […]

The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) on Thursday announced its 2015 ‘Climate Think Tank […]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the website of the Red Cross EU Office […]

The IFRC earlier this month called for “an immediate scale-up in response” to the spread […]

(This story is a press release that was issued by the IFRC earlier today from Geneva […]

(This web story, edited here for length, appeared first yesterday on the website of the […]

Human-caused climate change played an important role in the heavy rains that pounded parts of France late […]

(This blog by IFRC operations manager Jesper Fridolf, from the Swedish Red Cross, edited slightly […]

Scientists are this weekend urgently analysing whether climate change made the latest flood disaster in […]

(This story was first published earlier today on the Asia Pacific area of www.ifrc.org.) For […]

A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) earlier this month looks at […]

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Friday said the coming Atlantic hurricane season from […]

The IFRC’s science partners, the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), earlier this […]

Social protection programmes can build people’s “anticipatory, adaptive and absorptive” capacity to resist climate shocks and disasters, […]

(This article, reproduced here under Creative Commons, appeared first yesterday on the website of the […]

(This story is an IFRC press release published first earlier today on ifrc.org.) The World […]

(This is the text of an address by IFRC Secretary General Elhadj As Sy at […]

(This story appeared earlier today on ifrc.org and has been slightly edited here for length.) […]

The head of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, Laura Frigenti, Friday told the closing […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Movement has affirmed its key messages to the World Humanitarian […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued today.) The IFRC today announced a major […]

Two of the most influential figures in the sector yesterday called for a more “forward-looking […]

(This story is a press release issued today by the UK-based Climate and Development Knowledge […]

The major global ‘public-private’ conference announced at COP 21 last year to gather leaders from […]

The Katakwi district branch of the Uganda Red Cross Society (URCS) Friday carried out another […]

The third meeting took place at the UN campus in Bonn last week of the […]

The US Climate Prediction Center and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) […]

The tenth-anniversary Community-Based Adaptation Conference – ‘CBA10’ (proceedings) – ended yesterday on the Dhaka campus […]

(This opinion piece appeared first Saturday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dr […]

(This is a press release issued by the IFRC Friday shortly after the signing of […]

The text of the historic global agreement thrashed out at the COP 21 UN climate talks […]

Planning for the operational roll-out of forecast-based financing (FbF) in Bangladesh is now at an […]

The text of the historic global agreement thrashed out at the COP 21 UN climate talks […]

(This article, edited slightly here for length, first appeared on the Understanding Risk website. Through the […]

(This is a press release issued by the IFRC in Nairobi on Saturday. Its full appeals […]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The […]

A cluster of agency reports from the field over the past week, including the IFRC, […]

A case study from PfR Philippines that shows that traditional knowledge and practices reinforced with scientific […]

A case study from PfR Philippines. The Philippine RC has deepened its understanding on empowering […]

A case study from PfR Indonesia.  PfR’s interventions have focused on helping farmers improve their livelihood […]

The World Bank Group yesterday unveiled a new action plan on climate designed to accelerate efforts […]

Aerial surveys between Cairns, in northern Queensland, and Papua New Guinea show the Great Barrier […]

This publication sets out several simple strategies that can help to manage the unavoidable impacts of […]

(This story is a press release, slightly edited here for length, from the The Nature […]

The Ghana Education Service and Red Cross and the Climate Centre earlier this month joined […]

The World Meteorological Organization – which today marks the anniversary of the 1950 convention establishing […]

February has set a record for being the most abnormally warm month since global records […]

(This story first ran earlier this week on ifrc.org. The opening a year ago of […]

A humanitarian distribution under Forecast-based Financing (FbF) has now been carried out in the rain-swept […]

Government officials and risk-management experts on Friday called for health resilience to be placed at […]

The Indonesian Red Cross – often known internationally by its Indonesian-language acronym PMI for Palang […]

Many thousands of animals could starve over the next few weeks on Mongolia’s vast steppe […]

(This is an interview between the Wellcome Trust and Madeleine Thomson, Senior Research Scientist at IFRC […]

The Peruvian Red Cross is assisting 2,000 families as part of its German-supported ‘Forecast-based Financing’ […]