Red Cross Red Crescent steps up in Malaysia
January 11, 2021
(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.) Rescue and […]
2020: a year of ‘extraordinary climate events’ and a tie for the warmest on record
January 8, 2021
Twenty-twenty equalled the warmest year ever recorded globally, 2016, and it was the warmest on […]
Climate Action report: global inspiration, local examples
January 5, 2021
The Climate Action report is out! The Climate Centre is often asked by National Societies […]
IFRC releases emergency forecast-based funds for humanitarian action in Mongolia and Mozambique
January 4, 2021
(This story is based on a press release and departmental text issued by the IFRC […]
Conferences
January 2, 2021
Learn 18 innovative methods that spark participatory interaction between the event participants. The suggestions below […]
Innovative engagement
January 2, 2021
Climate change is an extraordinarily difficult problem, but when operating in complex systems innovative engagement […]
Anticipatory action
January 2, 2021
Advances in weather forecasting and climate science now enable us to act before disasters strike […]
Locally led adaptation
January 2, 2021
Locally led adaptation is an approach that empowers front-line communities to advance their own solutions […]
Who we are
December 29, 2020
At least 31 different countries are represented in our mostly virtual team, who are based […]
Climate Centre news review of the year 2020
December 17, 2020
A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2020 through the […]
Record climate disasters in Asia-Pacific push millions to ‘breaking point’
December 16, 2020
(This story appeared first earlier today of the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Asia-Pacific […]
Blog: Social protection in a changing climate – what are the experts saying?
December 9, 2020
An expert meeting on Social protection in a changing climate was held virtually in late […]
Scaling up climate action an ‘absolute priority’ in new IFRC Global Plan 2021
December 8, 2020
The IFRC Friday launched its Global Plan 2021 detailing its ten-year Strategy 2030 that has […]
Turning up the volume on early humanitarian action: ‘one-stop-shop’ Anticipation Hub goes live
December 8, 2020
(This is a longer version of the story that appeared on the IFRC website earlier […]
Climate Centre part of new EU-funded project joining the dots on climate and health research
December 7, 2020
The Climate Centre is joining a new project launched last week bringing together leaders in […]
Lancet Countdown report on climate and health flags ‘growing levels of heat-related mortality among vulnerable people worldwide’
December 3, 2020
This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading […]
Any old iron? (Or mementos of today.) Climate Centre presents 2050 time-capsule project to D&C Days online audience
December 3, 2020
The annual Development and Climate Days meeting was held virtually yesterday and today as one […]
report on climate and health flags ‘growing levels of heat-related mortality among vulnerable people worldwide’
December 3, 2020
This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading […]
Deaths related to last summer’s heatwaves in England highest since start of planning, says government
December 1, 2020
Data issued last month by Public Health England puts at 2,556 the “total cumulative all-cause […]
Student spotlight: Hannah Sizelove, Climate Centre intern
December 1, 2020
(This interview with former Climate Centre intern Hannah Sizelove appeared first last month on the […]
Be an engine of long-termism and a ‘Future Ancestor’
December 1, 2020
The Climate Centre is this month inviting contributions (here) – letters, drawings, poems and art […]
Opinion: Tackling the humanitarian impacts of the climate crisis together
November 22, 2020
(This story appeared first in the Bangkok Post last week and on the IFRC news […]
Global response to climate change is failing people in greatest need, says IFRC’s
November 17, 2020
(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva earlier today.) Global […]
‘Big risk, little time’ – an interview with Professor Maarten van Aalst
November 16, 2020
(A full version of this article appeared earlier this month in the online magazine of […]
PfR – ‘a vision, not a project’ – passes the baton
November 13, 2020
A new flagship report detailing a decade of work in 11 countries by the Partners […]
New UNEP programme centred on early warning will support climate resilience in Pacific island nations
November 12, 2020
The UN yesterday said it had won Green Climate Fund (GCF) support for a new […]
Climate scientists on the ‘tricks of the trade’ for attribution studies
November 11, 2020
An international group of scientists have detailed the process by which they have been able […]
Blog: Learning from National Society experience on climate-related humanitarian social protection
November 10, 2020
Linking humanitarian action with social protection could provide an opportunity to reach those most at […]
Climate scientists to put ‘relentless storms and floods’ devastating central Vietnam under microscope
November 2, 2020
(Vietnam’s recent struggle against a back-to-back series of deadly floods and storms can be tracked […]
As disaster train gathers speed, efforts gear up to clear the track
October 26, 2020
(This story appeared first last week on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It […]
New heatwave study maps ‘significant exposure increases’ threatening vulnerable populations in global South
October 26, 2020
Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense with climate change “and have serious and potentially […]
Report: Support people most vulnerable to disasters to understand (and insure against) risk better
October 23, 2020
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by […]
‘When it comes to climate change and risk, we’re all on the front line’
October 23, 2020
Sweden earlier this week detailed two new climate-related initiatives intended to increase the resilience of […]
report emphasizes need to ‘move from early warning to early action’
October 14, 2020
One in three people globally are still not adequately covered by early-warning systems, despite extreme […]
Forecast-based financing in Southern Africa – the future of humanitarian risk reduction
October 14, 2020
(This story is a press release issued yesterday by the IFRC in Pretoria to mark […]
UN: Climate-related disasters increase more than 80% over last four decades
October 13, 2020
Extreme-weather events have increased dramatically and now dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century, […]
With heatwave impacts eating city budgets, insurers seeking ways to reduce financial risks
October 7, 2020
(This story appeared first on Monday on the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. It […]
IFRC-Vice Media tie-in highlights gravity of multiple crises facing South Asia
October 6, 2020
(The photos from Bangladeh and India used in the Vice Media story can be downloaded […]
Adaptation Futures webinar on the future of climate information and early warning
October 5, 2020
At last week’s 6th International Climate Adaptation Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the IFRC […]
Blog: Asia-Pacific youth are the ‘disaster representatives in their communities and have the tools to help’
October 5, 2020
“During the Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing, awareness programmes on climate change were put on […]
Climate change (and some KMs from the ICRC) in 8 cartoons
September 28, 2020
Key messages from the ICRC’s recent report on conflict and climate, When Rain Turns to […]
IFRC study: Twin crises of climate-related disasters and Covid-19 affecting more than 50 million people
September 24, 2020
(This story is a press release first issued by the IFRC in Geneva and New […]
Solomon Islands early-action rainfall workshop
September 23, 2020
The Climate Centre earlier this month remotely contributed technical and humanitarian input at a two-day […]
Ecuador Red Cross assists residents threatened by volcanic ash
September 22, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today. It has been edited slightly […]
Opinion: No choice but to address humanitarian impacts of Covid and climate at the same time
September 21, 2020
(This contribution from IFRC President Francesco Rocca first aired on Al Jazeera English on Saturday. […]
‘There are visible signs of climate change at practically every turn in this environment’
September 16, 2020
(This story is an ICRC statement issued yesterday in Geneva in English and French, together […]
IFRC launches emergency appeal for Sudanese floods ‘unprecedented in magnitude’
September 15, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva Friday; it has […]
Smoke from US wildfires reaches Europe – ‘massive relief effort’ by American Red Cross
September 15, 2020
Smoke from the wildfires in the western United States has reached the Netherlands, according to […]
Blog: Keeping workshop participants on their ‘virtual toes’ at Climate:Red session on training
September 14, 2020
Building capacity virtually is here to stay, and interactive methodologies can keep participants virtually on […]
‘Incredibly inspiring’ Climate:Red Summit closes with a princess and a king (of bhangra)
September 11, 2020
IFRC Secretary General Jagan Chapagain yesterday thanked the Norwegian, Finnish, Italian and British Red Cross and […]
Climate Action: Examples from the Red Cross Red Crescent Partners
September 9, 2020
This document showcases a wide range of concrete examples over a decade of climate action […]
Humanitarians facing a ‘super-storm’ of needs can use cartoons to create a ‘simple sense of existence’
September 9, 2020
“There are many ways to serve. But maybe one good way is to use cartoons […]
Opinion: Red Cross Red Crescent makes history with global virtual climate summit
September 9, 2020
By Maarten Van Aalst, Climate Centre Director IT’S PERHAPS a bit of a cliché to […]
IFRC’s first-ever virtual climate summit, Climate:Red, ‘happening everywhere’
September 9, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Geneva. It has been edited […]
IFRC increases emergency ‘forecast-based action’ cap by 40%
September 2, 2020
The IFRC late last month raised the maximum grant for forecast-based action within the Disaster […]
Climate-related extreme weather events and Covid-19
September 1, 2020
A first look at the number of people affected by intersecting disasters.
New Red Cross Red Crescent-UK Met Office guide to ‘impact-based forecasting’ for early humanitarian action
September 1, 2020
Without determined and ambitious action on climate, 200 million people a year could need international […]
New research could make it easier to predict path of devastating megastorms
August 20, 2020
New research will make it easier to predict the path of some of the world’s […]
New online guidance on cash and social protection in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement
August 18, 2020
The online information hub for humanitarian cash assistance hosted by the British Red Cross has now […]
US scientists: Last month in the Northern Hemisphere the hottest ever recorded, Arctic sea ice the lowest
August 17, 2020
July 2020 was the hottest month ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, breaking the previous […]
Registration open for Climate:Red Summit next month
August 14, 2020
Registration is open for the Climate:Red Summit on 9 and 10 September, the IFRC Solferino […]
17.5 million affected by floods and threatened by disease in South Asia
August 7, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Dhaka and Kuala Lumpur.) Monsoon […]
Climate Centre joins new global alliance against heatwave ‘silent killers’
August 4, 2020
The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center and 30 global partners including the Climate […]
Red Cross calls on people to check on neighbours and loved ones during dangerous heatwave
July 30, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued yesterday in Budapest and Geneva that also […]
Humanitarian crisis worsens from South Asia floods as nearly 10m people affected
July 24, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, Delhi, Dhaka, Kathmandu […]
Indonesian Red Cross welcomes progress on government and PfR road map for addressing land subsidence
July 20, 2020
Further progress has been made in discussions involving Indonesia’s Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment […]
Forecast-based action a ‘bright spot in a bleak humanitarian outlook’
July 17, 2020
UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock has welcomed the forecast-based action that recently enabled several UN […]
Ecuador volcano eruption puts Red Cross observers through their paces
July 14, 2020
Last month’s eruption of the Sangay volcano in Ecuador provided Red Cross volunteers with an […]
‘Unusually heavy’ monsoon highlights importance for public safety of national met service warnings, says WMO
July 13, 2020
“Unusually heavy” monsoon rainfall and flooding affecting many parts of Asia has again highlighted the […]
ICRC report: Climate change and conflict are a cruel combination stalking the world’s most vulnerable
July 9, 2020
(This story is an ICRC press release issued earlier today. The new report is accompanied […]
‘Combine human, animal and environmental health to prevent pandemics’
July 8, 2020
A rise in zoonotic diseases that jump from animal hosts to humans is being driven […]
‘A humanitarian recipe for a green, resilient and inclusive recovery from Covid-19’
July 6, 2020
IFRC writers Friday put forward a three-part framework for ensuring that recovery from the global Covid-19 […]
New research flags potential for extending forecast-based humanitarian action to drought
July 1, 2020
The humanitarian implications of droughts are profound and far-reaching, but traditionally the humanitarian role has […]
IFRC: Early action to save lives in Bangladesh amid severe flood forecast
June 30, 2020
(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Dhaka, Kuala Lumpur and […]
Climate Centre launches new podcast series with a detailed look at heatwaves
June 30, 2020
The Climate Centre today launches a new multimedia resource for the humanitarian sector, podcasts, with […]
‘Why disaster preparedness cannot wait’
June 28, 2020
(This article appeared first on Friday on the Project Syndicate comment website.) The world has […]
UN: Failure of governance at the heart of global crises
June 23, 2020
The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Mami Mizutori, last week said there is […]
International Energy Agency Covid recovery plan that avoids ‘rebound in emissions’
June 22, 2020
The International Energy Agency on Thursday presented a three-year plan for economic recovery from the […]
IFRC issues urban heatwave guide for Red Cross Red Crescent city branches
June 18, 2020
The IFRC and Climate Centre today released their new City Heatwave Guide for Red Cross […]
Acting early in a time of pandemic: the challenge of being ready for extreme weather during Covid-19
June 18, 2020
(A longer version of this article appeared last week as part of a series of […]
Red Cross Red Crescent to be represented on global partnership assisting countries with climate commitments
June 17, 2020
The global NDC Partnership – launched during COP 22 in Marrakech in 2016 – last […]
Fostering anticipatory action on floods through social protection in Nepal
June 16, 2020
(This story summarizes a master’s thesis by Sabrina Desroches which is also a Climate Centre […]
Attribution scientists’ note-to-self: focus more on developing world (and look beyond patchy climate data)
June 3, 2020
Lack of good historical observations and verifiable climate models as well as a “significant bias […]
IFRC report: Climate adaptation and risk reduction share fundamental goals
June 2, 2020
(A version of this story ran first last month on the website of Ireland’s University […]
Global partnership on heat and health urges better preparation for Northern Hemisphere summer amid pandemic precautions
May 26, 2020
(A longer version of this story first ran earlier today on the GHHIN website.) An […]
WMO updating guidelines on impact-based forecasting, incorporating humanitarian input
May 25, 2020
The World Meteorological Organization says it will later this year issue updated guidance on impact-based […]