A new report from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has laid bare the devastating environmental and economic consequences of the unlawful discharge of untreated wastewater from Israeli settlements into Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.

Somalia is experiencing its third drought in less than a decade. The country's droughts are becoming more frequent and intense because of climate change. Women and girls are bearing the brunt.

The Haor is a wetland region in north-western Bangladesh, a place of immense beauty in all its seasons. This bowl-shaped landscape transforms into an expanded body of water during the monsoon as it accumulates runoff water from surrounding sources.

“I have never seen so much rain in the 40 years since I moved into my home in this village!”

A cholera outbreak in the making.

BRCiS (Building Resilient Communities in Somalia) is a humanitarian Consortium that takes a holistic approach to supporting Somali communities in developing their capacities to understand and manage hazards and shocks so that they can build a better future for themselves.

The scale of suffering inflicted by drought on Iraq’s populations this year is laid bare in new research by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

The last El Niño phenomenon brought droughts and floods that increased humanitarian needs around the world. NORCAP experts have worked in some of the hardest hit areas, putting preparedness in the priority seat, to increase national and regional ability to cope with future events.

This year’s World Meteorological Day, emphasised the importance of early action and early warning systems for impact-based forecasting – a focal point for NORCAP’s climate services experts.

This document presents a summary of the Nansen Conference, hosted by the Norwegian government in partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the Centre for Climate and Environmental Research, and attended by civil society, authorities, scientists, and humanitarian and development practitioners.