We are mourning the loss of our dear colleague, Jon Gascoigne.

We are excited to announce that Theodore Talbot, Cristina Stefan, Omaira Chaudhry and Jessica Texter will be joining the team bringing years of experience across a diverse range of sectors.

Responding to recent IDA20 replenishment announcement, the Centre’s Daniel Clarke says it’s time to look through a different lens and shift the coversation to what’s really needed.

The Centre is delighted to announce a new non-executive Board made up of nine members. These expert voices from a range of sectors and a diversity of experience will provide challenge, oversight and strategic support of the Centre’s mission and in line with its values of impartiality, quality, creativity and empowerment.

Responding to today’s IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, the Centre’s Daniel Clarke calls on world leaders to urgently tackle climate risk.

The G7 communique states that G7 members have committed hundreds of millions worth of new financing for early action, disaster risk, and insurance.

The UK’s International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP29 Presidency, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, announced that the Centre for Disaster Protection will receive additional support of £5 million from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Read on for full details…

The G7 Foreign and Development Ministers meeting concluded yesterday with the release of a full read out of Ministerial commitments. Here, Daniel Clarke responds to agreements made on Disaster Risk Financing by calling on the G7 to agree clear solutions that reduce the cost of disasters and improve community preparation and resilience.

New study, released by the Centre for Disaster Protection, shows consistent failure to prepare international aid before disasters strike, even when we can see a crisis coming, is putting lives at risk.

Alongside this report, the Centre is releasing a Statement of Support signed by over 40 leaders from across the across the development, humanitarian and private sectors endorsing the Crisis Lookout coalition's three asks of the G7 ahead of the Leader’s summit in Cornwall in June: Predict crises better; Prepare response better; Protect vulnerable people better.

Ahead of a meeting of G7 Foreign and Development ministers next month, the Centre for Disaster Protection convened leaders from across the Crisis Lookout coalition to explore the international financial response to covid-19 and what lessons it held for world leaders as they prepare to ‘Build Back Better’ from the crisis. The event was also an opportunity for the Centre to launch its new paper: Predict and Protect: G7 solutions for a new approach to crisis risk financing, setting out detailed and practical proposals for how the G7 could better protect vulnerable communities by better predicting and preparing for disasters.

Following a call by world leaders for a new global pandemic treaty, Daniel Clarke, Director of the Centre for Disaster Protection responds.

The Crisis Lookout coalition is calling for a new system that better predicts disaster risks, such as pandemics, floods, droughts and conflicts, and agrees in advance the financial support that will be needed to help affected communities.

The Centre for Disaster Protection was proud to be part of this year’s Climate:Red, the global climate change summit organised by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

International organisations have committed more than $48 billion in covid-19 funding, yet this money is not reaching the countries where poverty is increasing most, reveals a new study published today (26th June 2020) by the Centre for Disaster Protection.