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The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasser, said yesterday […]

World leaders must unite to renew their commitments to humanity and end crisis and reduce […]

(This story, slightly edited here for length, appeared first on the BRACED website. In its […]

The IFRC yesterday launched an appeal worth nearly US$ 2.4m in response to the outbreak […]

An emergency meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva today declared a “public […]

The ICRC, International Federation and Devex – a prominent media platform for the global development […]

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) – a leading global provider of early […]

The course provides an introduction to climate change and aims to help staff and volunteers […]

Humanitarian need over the past decade has grown “at a staggering rate,” IFRC Secretary General […]

The IFRC’s Community Preparedness and Risk Reduction Department yesterday announced that the e-learning course Climate […]

The IFRC last week launched an emergency appeal worth US$ 2.2m to enable the Ethiopian […]

Temperatures in much of the UK in December 2015 were closer to those of the […]

(This story appeared first last month on the IFRC’s news site. The most recent IFRC […]

The Geneva-based Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) last month published its first annual report based on three […]

(This is the Climate Centre’s review of highlights of 2015 – a historic year of […]

To the campaigners who for years lobbied for a global deal on climate, to the […]

(This story appeared first last month on the website of the Institute of Development Studies; […]

The European Union has announced it’s contributing €125m to finance emergency response in countries affected […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued this evening shortly after the historic climate agreement […]

(This article appeared first yesterday on the Climate Central website; it has been slightly edited […]

(This web story is an abridged version of a longer piece that first appeared on […]

The British Red Cross (BRC) this week launched a major operation in the north-west English […]

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon – summing up the first week of the COP […]

(This blog on the first day of Development and Climate Days in Paris also appears […]

The 13th Development & Climate Days (D&C Days) weekend workshop alongside annual UN climate talks got […]

(This story appeared first on the news site of ifrc.org.) Nine months have passed since […]

(This is a joint press release issued simultaneously this morning in the Netherlands and at COP […]

(This story is a joint statement by the IFRC and the World Food Programme, issued […]

(This story was first published earlier today as a press release on www.ifrc.org.) As climate […]

(This story appeared first earlier this week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited […]

In a ground-breaking humanitarian action triggered by a scientific forecast of flood risk, the Uganda […]

(This story appeared first as a press release by the World Bank yesterday.) Climate change […]

(This story appeared first yesterday on the website of Climate Central, convenor of the World […]

(This opinion piece appeared first on the IFRC news site last week.) We are increasingly seeing debates […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent recognizes that climate change is a ‘threat multiplier’ in the […]

(This story appeared first last week on the IFRC news site. It has been edited […]

An IFRC programme to help National Societies engage with National Adaptation Plans (NAP) reached Kenya […]

“It does not inspire,” Prakash Javadekar, India’s minister for environment, forests and climate change, said […]

(This is a press release issued by the UN-OCHA Ethiopia Humanitarian Country Team on 13 […]

(These stories first appeared yesterday on the Cordaid and Wetlands International websites. They are edited […]

The small Vanuatu village of Epau now has its own draft action plan for climate […]

“We want to continue with you, we want to learn from you, we can also […]

The Secretary General of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), Abbas Gullet, who is in […]

A major international conference on resilience taking a 360-degree look at both lessons learned over […]

The IFRC in a press release yesterday strongly welcomed the adoption at a special UN summit […]

A three-day summit to adopt an ambitious new sustainable development agenda for humanity post-2015 was […]

For a city planner looking to make a new building flood-proof, or a farmer interested […]

Communities and humanitarian and development workers are facing rapidly changing risks from unplanned urbanization, environmental […]

Resilience generally denotes the ability of social systems to function and flourish despite disturbances.  In […]

The IFRC this weekend issued a new information bulletin on the severe El Niño affecting […]

(This article first appeared last week as a guest blog on the website of the […]

(This story was first posted on the website of the Nairobi-based Somalia Water and Land […]

“Yet further strengthening” over the next few months of the current already-strong El Niño is […]

Floods and mudslides in several Central Asian countries last month renewed fears that melting glaciers […]

Parts of Asia have been “inundated by floodwaters and ravaged by landslides” as heavy rains […]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) – an IFRC science and forecasting […]

This report was produced in collaboration with Reading University and with support from the UK […]

A new World Bank study using “uniquely rich data” that combines information on health, social […]

The first newsletter produced by the knowledge-management component of the “BRACED” climate-resilience programme – supported […]

The Climate Centre last month provided technical input at an IFRC workshop in Togo on […]

Policy-makers must determine how best to invest disaster-related funds, given an understanding of global distribution […]

“The rains are different now. Twenty years ago we could plan for harvests. We knew […]

The chances of the current El Niño continuing through the northern-hemisphere autumn are now 99 per […]

This story was first published on 16 July on the website of the US National […]

This paper examines the role of games in improving communication and spurring learning, and improving […]

This paper presents the Minimum Standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction and details how they can […]

The first twice-yearly dialogue platform supported by the German Federal Foreign Office – gathering meteorologists, […]

This month saw the release of The Red Cross and Red Crescent’s Principled Approach to Innovation […]

Friday’s closing statement from the four-day international scientific conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris describes […]

The Argentine Red Cross (ARC) and the Climate Centre last week took part in the […]

Climate science provides an essential ingredient in work on resilience, but with tighter focus on […]

The IFRC’s Pacific Regional Office has distributed the outcome report from a wide-ranging Red Cross […]

It’s “virtually certain” that climate change increased the likelihood of the heatwave now affecting Europe, […]

The International Federation and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) – a […]

This story (edited slightly here for length) was first published by IRIN last week, as the Sindh […]

The International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at Columbia University’s Earth Institute has […]

Plans for a new universal climate agreement will “step into a higher gear over the […]

The US government today announced Climate Services for Resilient Development, a new international public-private partnership […]

The Netherlands government has said it supports the groundbreaking concept of forecast-based financing, intended to […]

(This article first appeared on Climate Central’s website on 3 June. It has been edited […]

More than 5,000 decision-makers and specialists gathered in Brussels this week for Europe’s leading forum […]

(Joint press release issued yesterday by the World Bank, African Development Bank, and World Meteorological […]

The United Nations Association-UK (UNA-UK) yesterday released a major report, Climate 2020, on the new global framework due […]

El Niño – the phenomenon of warmer-than-average sea-surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific – recently […]

An intensive participatory workshop in Nairobi earlier this month documented five years’ implementation and learning […]

With the outcome targets established at the start of the programme broadly achieved, the Partners […]

We know the climate is changing and future generations will bear the brunt. The “weirding” […]

(This story was first published last week on the IRIN humanitarian news and analysis website. […]

The IFRC secretariat yesterday released a new guide to its specialist reference centres, of which […]

This IFRC publication provides a new overview of Red Cross Red Crescent reference centres, of […]

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the IFRC have developed a new ‘Seasonal Rainfall Watch’ […]

The 9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9) ended in Nairobi yesterday with a call […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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