Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

What Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre does

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre is a Dutch non-profit foundation (Stichting International Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre on Disaster Preparedness), registered as an ANBI (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling) and housed at the Netherlands Red Cross in The Hague. Founded in 2012 as part of the broader International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, it operates with a small distributed staff (11-50) and supports the Movement's 192 National Societies with climate science translation, tools, training, and guidance to reduce the impacts of climate change and extreme weather on vulnerable people.

Its core product portfolio is methodological rather than software: the Climate Training Kit (an interactive, multilingual curriculum covering climate risk management, policy, finance and adaptation), the Y-Adapt youth curriculum (a games-based program for 13-25 year-olds), anticipatory action frameworks including Forecast-based Financing and impact-based forecasting, the NEAT+ environmental screening tool for humanitarian operations, the Heat Action Day initiative held annually on 2 June, the Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition, The Nature Navigator handbook, Climate Games, and StoryMaps. The Centre also produces the Strategy 2030 roadmap, the annual report, The Climate Carrot podcast, and a steady stream of policy briefs and research reports.

It does not sell commercial products or services. Revenue is generated through grants and institutional partnerships — primarily the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Canadian Red Cross, European Commission, and the IFRC system itself. Its go-to-market is event-driven and community-led: it works through regional focal points in Africa (North/East, West/Sahel, Southern), the Middle East, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean, leveraging the Movement's volunteer networks to deliver training and implement anticipatory action pilots (e.g., Nigeria, Nepal, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Timor-Leste) and to participate in global coalitions such as the Global Heat Health Information Network, Early Warnings for All, the Climate and Environment Charter, Pathways2Resilience, the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance, and Partners for Resilience.

Name

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Legal name

Stichting International Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre on Disaster Preparedness

Website

https://climatecentre.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre is a Dutch non-profit foundation that supports the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement's 192 National Societies with climate science translation, anticipatory action frameworks, training resources, and youth engagement programs to reduce climate and extreme weather impacts on vulnerable communities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Humanitarian Climate Risk Management

NAICS

Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312), Community Food and Housing, and Emergency and Other Relief Services (6242), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation (BPAGAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Climate Adaptation & Resilience Programs (BPADALAD), Community Resilience, Preparedness Training & Exercises (HLAJAGAL), Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

Keywords

• Climate risk management
• Anticipatory action
• Humanitarian climate adaptation
• Early warning systems
• Forecast-based financing

Headquarters

HQ city

The Hague

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Foundation Funding and Grants: As a Dutch ANBI (Public Benefit Organisation), the Climate Centre operates as Stichting International Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre on Disaster Preparedness. The organization receives funding through partnerships, donors, and the broader Red Cross Red Crescent Movement network.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre provides climate science guidance, training tools, anticipatory action frameworks, and technical support to the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its 192 National Societies. Its core offerings include the Climate Training Kit, Y-Adapt youth curriculum, Heat Action Day global awareness initiative, forecast-based financing programs, and early warning systems designed to help humanitarian actors reduce climate and extreme weather impacts on vulnerable communities.

Product overview

The Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre operates as a knowledge and guidance organization within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, offering a portfolio of climate-focused products and initiatives rather than a unified software platform. The core offerings include the Climate Training Kit (an interactive training resource covering climate risk management, policy, and finance), Y-Adapt (a youth-focused games-based curriculum for climate adaptation), and the Heat Action Day global awareness initiative. Additional products include the Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition, The Nature Navigator handbook, StoryMaps, The Climate Carrot Podcast, and Climate Games. The organization also supports anticipatory action through Forecast-based Action/Forecast-based Financing programs and early warning systems, alongside the annual Climate and YOUth Summit. These products collectively serve National Societies and humanitarian partners in reducing climate impacts on vulnerable populations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Climate Training Kit (CTK): An interactive set of training materials prepared by IFRC and the Climate Centre to strengthen capacities of trainers and facilitators within the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement and its partners on climate risk management.
• Y-Adapt
• Heat Action Day

Products and services

• Climate Training Kit (CTK) Interactive training materials prepared by IFRC and the Climate Centre covering climate change basics, policy dialogues, climate finance, and adaptation strategies, used by National Societies worldwide.
• Y-Adapt Curriculum A games-based curriculum with seven sessions engaging 13-25 year-olds to understand climate change and develop adaptation action plans in their communities.
• Heat Action Day A global day of awareness and action on extreme heat held annually on June 2nd, bringing communities together to address the growing threat of extreme heat linked to climate change.
• Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition (HAAD) A design competition challenging architecture and urban design students to develop affordable and scalable structural solutions addressing extreme heat in cities, focused on protecting vulnerable populations.
• Forecast-based Action / Forecast-based Financing Anticipatory action programs enabling National Societies to take early action based on weather forecasts before disasters occur, helping protect vulnerable communities from climate impacts.
• Early Warning for All (EW4All) Initiative A national initiative strengthening people-centered early warning systems, working with national meteorological services and civil protection authorities to establish government-led systems for routine tracking of disaster losses and damages.
• The Nature Navigator A handbook developed by IFRC providing guidance on nature-based solutions covering climate adaptation and mitigation, serving as a sustainable strategy for environmental protection in humanitarian operations.
• Climate and YOUth Summit An annual summit connecting young people worldwide to explore climate challenges, learn skills, share best practices, and inspire climate action within the humanitarian movement.

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained officials across six pilot municipalities in Timor-Leste
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

17 partnerships are on record, tiered major, minor and core.

• Pathways2ResiliencemajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023The Climate Centre became part of Pathways2Resilience in 2023, supporting 150 regions and communities in Europe to scale up climate adaptation.
• University of Colorado BoulderminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013Partnership to send CU graduate students to Africa for three-month internships focusing on climate, building academic collaborations with the Climate Centre.
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Climate Centre is an integral part of the IFRC, supporting the entire Red Cross Red Crescent network of 192 National Societies in reducing climate impacts on vulnerable people. The IFRC has made climate change one of its top five priorities in Strategy 2030.
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe ICRC is a key partner in the Movement, with the Climate Centre supporting ICRC's Climate and Environment Transition Fund and providing guidance on green response and environmental sustainability in humanitarian operations.
• Netherlands Red CrosscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Climate Centre head office is housed at the Netherlands Red Cross in The Hague. NLRC is the lead agency for the Partners for Resilience alliance and has significantly integrated Climate Centre's resilience-thinking into its strategy.
• Zurich Climate Resilience AlliancemajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Climate Centre supports the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance by reviewing the state of early warning for extreme heat, designing protocols, analysing data, and helping draft country case studies.
• Global Disaster Preparedness CentermajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in organizing the Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition (HAAD) to stimulate creative thinking on tackling heat risks in cities.
• Global Youth Mobilization (GYM)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the Global Youth Mobilization network of the world's largest youth organizations to empower young people in climate action through the Climate and YOUth Summit and youth-led initiatives.
• Partners for Resilience (PfR)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlliance comprising CARE Nederland, Cordaid, NLRC, the Climate Centre, and Wetlands International, working in 11 countries from 2010-2020 to integrate disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, and ecosystem management.
• Global Heat Health Information NetworkmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Climate Centre is part of the leadership team of this influential network addressing heat-related health impacts through early warning systems and urban heat action planning.
• Columbia UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-standing academic partnership through the Climate and Society master's programme, providing internships and research collaborations.
• Oxford UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership providing internships and research collaborations on climate and humanitarian action.
• Yale UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partnership providing internships and research collaborations on climate and humanitarian action.
• 510 (Red Cross Data Initiative)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with 510, part of the Red Cross named after 510 million square kilometers of Earth's surface, providing internship opportunities in data and technology for humanitarian applications.
• The Nature ConservancymajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in the Resilient Islands project for the Caribbean, a five-year IFRC-Nature Conservancy initiative that 'redefined community resilience by utilizing nature's protective power against the climate crisis'.
• Canadian Red CrossmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerProvided financial support for the development of the Climate Training Kit along with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Partners for Resilience.
• American Red CrossmajorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in organizing the Climate and YOUth Summit and youth climate engagement programs.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Overseas Development Institute (ODI): Independent global affairs think tank producing research on development, humanitarian, and climate issues. Comparable operating model of producing policy-relevant research and advisory services for governments, multilaterals, and humanitarian actors.
• Germanwatch: Environmental and development policy organization focused on climate change, sustainable development, and humanitarian impacts. Comparable mission of linking climate science to policy, advocacy, and development practice, particularly for vulnerable populations.
• Stockholm Environment Institute: Independent research organization working on environment and development issues at the science–policy interface. Comparable in producing applied climate-risk research, tools, and policy guidance that governments and humanitarian actors use to inform adaptation and resilience decisions.
• Climate Analytics: Berlin-based climate science and policy institute producing research to support ambitious climate action. Closely comparable to the Climate Centre's role as a translator of climate science into actionable humanitarian and adaptation programming, with similar mission-driven, donor-funded operating model.
• Acclimatise: Climate change adaptation advisory firm providing risk assessment, planning, and policy support to governments, multilaterals and humanitarian actors. Directly comparable business model of translating climate data into adaptation strategy and programming.
• International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED): Research and policy organization focused on sustainable development, climate adaptation, and locally-led action. Comparable mission of bridging environmental science with development practice, particularly for vulnerable communities in the Global South.

Broad incumbents

• World Resources Institute (WRI): Global research organization with programs spanning climate, energy, food, forests and water. Comparable in producing rigorous climate-risk research and tools, but at significantly larger scale and broader thematic scope than the Climate Centre's humanitarian focus.
• UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR): UN system lead for disaster risk reduction, coordinating the Sendai Framework and Early Warnings for All initiative. Overlaps substantially with the Climate Centre's anticipatory-action and early-warning work, but operates at a much larger scale and as an intergovernmental body.

Emerging players

• Climate Central: US-based climate science communication and journalism organization. Comparable function of translating climate science into actionable communications and visualizations, though with greater emphasis on media and public awareness than humanitarian programming.

Others

• Global Disaster Preparedness Center: Red Cross-affiliated (American Red Cross) reference center for disaster preparedness programming. Closely related entity co-developing initiatives like Heat Action Day and the Heat Adaptive Architecture Design Competition with the Climate Centre, and serving an overlapping audience of National Societies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• Facebookfacebook.com/climatecentre
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/red-cross-red-crescent-climate-centre
• Instagraminstagram.com/rcclimatecentre

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

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