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Many people across the world still live in poverty, worsened by extreme weather and climate […]

All key indicators in the State of the Global Climate 2020 report, issued by the […]

(A version of this story appeared first on the IFRC website for disaster law on […]

Social protection (SP) can be key to protecting vulnerable groups and helping them build resilience to […]

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, the Dutch meteorologist who developed the KNMI Climate Explorer and is […]

The ‘Can’t Take the Heat’ podcast explores how people will adapt to a warming world. […]

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We offer many virtual and face-to-face courses and opportunities for the development of capacity that […]

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The UK COP 26 presidency said Friday it had been “heartened by participants’ show of […]

The UK yesterday hosted the online Climate and Development Ministerial meeting, gathering governments and other […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva.) […]

(This story appeared first on Monday on the SERVIR website.) Disconnects between forecasters and decision-makers […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent is today launching a set of resources including videos for National […]

The IFRC yesterday released a new video detailing the work of its reference centres, hosted […]

A new report aims to encourage countries to make progress “on the mutually supportive objectives […]

Global warming is distorting forecasts of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific – […]

The UN Friday published an interim report it describes as a “red alert” for the […]

The European Commission last week adopted a new strategy on adaptation which it says sets […]

Setting the scene on health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) response in a changing climate

The Climate Centre earlier this week jointly hosted an expert workshop on responding to climate […]

The ICRC Tuesday told the UN Security Council that assistance to the most vulnerable “must […]

On Monday 22 February 2021, the Climate Centre convened a workshop on responding to climate […]

“Country assessments in Afghanistan, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan on linkages between climate and […]

The Climate Centre and the Boston-based Friedman School and Feinstein International Center today announced the […]

(This article appeared first on Tuesday on the Africa Portal website.) By Mohammed Omer Mukhier-Abuzein, […]

The US-based Nature Conservancy last week launched a major new guide to strategies for nature-based […]

Hundreds of representatives from governments, UN, development and humanitarian agencies, universities, and other branches of […]

The Red Cross Red Crescent has published a new checklist for greening the Movement, strengthening […]

“It’s so important to invest in early warning and early action because all the analysis […]

by Maarten van Aalst, Director, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague The global […]

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

NASA last week joined the Anticipation Hub created by the German Red Cross, the IFRC […]

The Earth’s surface temperature in 2020 equalled 2016 as the warmest on record, the US […]

What is happening in the oceans, coasts, poles and mountains? And what is happening in […]

As detailed in our most recent annual report (for 2022), we were supported as a […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.) Rescue and […]

Twenty-twenty equalled the warmest year ever recorded globally, 2016, and it was the warmest on […]

The Climate Action report is out! The Climate Centre is often asked by National Societies […]

(This story is based on a press release and departmental text issued by the IFRC […]

Senior Financial Officer Vacancy: We are seeking a Senior Financial Officer to be part of […]

Humour keeps us honest. It strips away illusions that support the status quo. It helps […]

Learn 18 innovative methods that spark participatory interaction between the event participants. The suggestions below […]

Climate change is an extraordinarily difficult problem, but when operating in complex systems innovative engagement […]

Advances in weather forecasting and climate science now enable us to act before disasters strike […]

The Climate Centre provides guidance and resources for inclusive urban climate action at scale. The […]

Locally led adaptation is an approach that empowers front-line communities to advance their own solutions […]

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At least 31 different countries are represented in our mostly virtual team, who are based […]

A look back at our engagement with the climate-related humanitarian events of 2020 through the […]

(This story appeared first earlier today of the website of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.) Asia-Pacific […]

An expert meeting on Social protection in a changing climate was held virtually in late […]

The IFRC Friday launched its Global Plan 2021 detailing its ten-year Strategy 2030 that has […]

(This is a longer version of the story that appeared on the IFRC website earlier […]

The Climate Centre is joining a new project launched last week bringing together leaders in […]

This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading […]

The annual Development and Climate Days meeting was held virtually yesterday and today as one […]

This year’s Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, published today by the world’s leading […]

Data issued last month by Public Health England puts at 2,556 the “total cumulative all-cause […]

(This interview with former Climate Centre intern Hannah Sizelove appeared first last month on the […]

The Climate Centre is this month inviting contributions (here) – letters, drawings, poems and art […]

(This story appeared first in the Bangkok Post last week and on the IFRC news […]

(This story is a press release issued by the IFRC in Geneva earlier today.) Global […]

(A full version of this article appeared earlier this month in the online magazine of […]

A new flagship report detailing a decade of work in 11 countries by the Partners […]

The UN yesterday said it had won Green Climate Fund (GCF) support for a new […]

An international group of scientists have detailed the process by which they have been able […]

Linking humanitarian action with social protection could provide an opportunity to reach those most at […]

(Vietnam’s recent struggle against a back-to-back series of deadly floods and storms can be tracked […]

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

Heatwaves have become more frequent and intense with climate change “and have serious and potentially […]

The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), a partnership led by the insurance industry and supported by […]

Sweden earlier this week detailed two new climate-related initiatives intended to increase the resilience of […]

(This story is a press release issued yesterday by the IFRC in Pretoria to mark […]

One in three people globally are still not adequately covered by early-warning systems, despite extreme […]

Extreme-weather events have increased dramatically and now dominate the disaster landscape in the 21st century, […]

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

(The photos from Bangladeh and India used in the Vice Media story can be downloaded […]

At last week’s 6th International Climate Adaptation Conference, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the IFRC […]

“During the Covid-19 lockdown and social distancing, awareness programmes on climate change were put on […]

Key messages from the ICRC’s recent report on conflict and climate, When Rain Turns to […]

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

The Climate Centre earlier this month remotely contributed technical and humanitarian input at a two-day […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued earlier today. It has been edited slightly […]

(This contribution from IFRC President Francesco Rocca first aired on Al Jazeera English on Saturday. […]

(This story is an ICRC statement issued yesterday in Geneva in English and French, together […]

(This story is an IFRC press release issued in Nairobi and Geneva Friday; it has […]

Smoke from the wildfires in the western United States has reached the Netherlands, according to […]

Building capacity virtually is here to stay, and interactive methodologies can keep participants virtually on […]