Farmers in Uganda’s Otuke district say climate-centred agricultural extension supported by CARE as part of the Partners for Resilience (PfR) programme has fortuitously helped them withstand the...
by Maarten van Aalst, Director, Climate Centre On the Thursday before last, at pretty much the exact moment I was sitting down in the locked-down safety of my house in the Dutch city of Utrecht to...
A new report on 2019 from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) shows that Asia was the continent most affected by disasters in 2019, with 40 per cent of all events, 45 per...
The sixth Pacific Island Climate Outlook Forum (PICOF) was held virtually late last month, ushering in “a new era” for the annual forum which gathers national meteorological and hydrological services...
The 11th international Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin last week heard a renewed call from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for “brave, visionary and collaborative leadership” to tackle...
by Andrea Ficchì and Liz Stephens, University of Reading Fifty-one new reporting-points – including 24 in Kenya, the first there – came online for African rivers at the end of last month, assisted by...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres today put forward six climate-related actions to shape recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and turn the process into “a real opportunity to do things right for...
New research on climate impacts and global biodiversity published last week in the journal Nature suggests that its collapse could be abrupt, more widespread, and sooner than anticipated, starting in...
A series of three new feature-length documentary films on PfR’s work in the Philippines, commissioned by the Netherlands Red Cross, was formally launched this week on the alliance’s YouTube channel...
The IFRC yesterday issued an “imminent crisis” cash grant of just over 50,000 Swiss francs from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to help the Vanuatu Red Cross Society (VRCS) issue early-warning...