02/12/2019 - by the Climate Centre (A version of this story appeared earlier today on the FbF website of the German Red Cross.) Typhoon Kammuri, known locally as Tisoy, is expected to hit the Bicol...
Two new warnings this week from within the UN system suggest that the world will struggle to meet even the modest ambitions of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The United Nations Environment Programme...
New research from 35 global institutions published last week in one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, has set out what it says are the lifelong health consequences for a child born...
(An earlier version of this blog was published to coincide with GEO Week 2019: Earth Observations for Disaster Risk Reduction, in Canberra, where the Australian Red Cross and the Climate Centre...
Two grave warnings with major humanitarian implications published this week and last by international scientists have highlighted the seriousness of the climate crisis facing humanity. A declaration...
A version of this story first appeared on the website of the Pacific Meteorological Desk Partnership last Tuesday.) Forging stronger relationships between national meteorological services and...
(Dr Michael Charles heads the IFRC Southern Africa Cluster. His article was first published by the Southern Times last month, before the September Climate Action Summit in New York, and was...
The IFRC’s Governing Board (pictured) last week approved the organizations’s new Strategy 2030 that “proposes an urgent shift of leadership and decision-making to the most local level – placing...
The much-heralded Risk-informed Early Action Partnership (REAP) intended to protect a billion people in the developing world from extreme weather has been launched at the UN General Assembly in New...
(A version of this story appeared earlier today on the PfR website. It has been edited here for length.) Partners for Resilience (PfR) are today calling on world leaders gathered in New York for the...