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

The IFRC Friday convened a webinar on geoengineering and the implications for the humanitarian sector […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre yesterday sent out invitations to an international scientific […]

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

The Togolese and German Red Cross, the Climate Centre and other partners yesterday shared in […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi on Friday.) Prolonged and worsening […]

With temperatures in the latest potentially lethal heatwave forecast to remain in the mid-40s Celsius […]

(This story appeared first Tuesday on the ECMWF website. It has been edited here for […]

The world’s wetlands – natural buffers against storms, floods and droughts – are being lost […]

(This story appeared first on the IFRC news site on Friday and has been edited […]

The UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID) yesterday published a new strategy to focus […]

Two more countries – in the southern hemisphere on opposite sides of the Pacific rim […]

Europe is facing a future of rising sea levels and worse heatwaves, floods, droughts and […]

With about half of Kenya now affected by drought, the Secretary General of the Kenya […]

Using data compiled by US and British agencies, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) yesterday confirmed […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Governments need […]

Europe’s severe cold wave, which last week led the IFRC to urge people across the […]

Extreme-weather events are now the top global risk in terms of ‘likelihood’ over the next […]

(This story, edited slightly here for length, first appeared on the IFRC news site on […]

The Fagnavodrevo project in Madagascar’s north-west Sofia region is being implemented by the Malagasy Red […]

IT SHOULD BE an uncontroversial statement of fact that individuals and organizations with a stake […]

This paper presents the City Learning Lab approach for inclusive decision-making at a city level. This paper […]

This is our snapshot of the climate-related humanitarian events of 2016, through the eyes of […]

A new collection of studies highlights the role of climate change and the strong El […]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the International Federation’s news site.) The German government – […]

The forecast-based financing (FbF) project in Peru – implemented by the Peruvian Red Cross and […]

The Dutch Foreign Minister, Bert Koenders, yesterday said water- and climate-related security problems belong on […]

A inter-agency forum in the Philippine capital, Manila, on forecast-based financing (FbF) and emergency preparedness […]

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

(This feature story appeared first last week on the website of the World Bank. It […]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Marrakech and Geneva on […]

The head of the IFRC’s Africa region, Dr Fatoumata Nafo-Traore, told the International Federation’s principal […]

(This story appeared first earlier today on the IFRC website.)  Amid spikes in dengue cases […]

The IFRC this week emphasized its support for the developing UN ‘blueprint for action’ on […]

(Yesterday was Gender Day at COP 22 focusing on women as “leaders, innovators, and agents […]

(The 2016 D&C Days event in Marrakech that ended on Sunday saw the first major engagement […]

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 […]

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

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

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 […]