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...
The long-term response to coronavirus “must tackle habitat and biodiversity loss,” according to the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Inger Andersen. “Never before have...
by Andrew Norton, Director, International Institute for Environment and Development The Coronavirus pandemic will have a huge global impact in 2020, not only on health and well-being, but also on our...
by Sayanti Sengupta and the Climate Centre, London The first of a series of expert meetings for 2020 on social protection options in various future-climate scenarios was held in London yesterday...