Climate Change: Coping with the Humanitarian Impact
Posted by Craig Clarke
on Oct 5, 2009
A report released from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs finds that climate-related natural disasters. displaced 20 million people from their homes last year, nearly 4x higher than displacement from conflict areas
Tackling climate change needs a global and comprehensive response; curbing greenhouse gases, helping people adapt to changing weather and investing in risk reduction. But for humanitarians, there is one clear-cut challenge: to ensure an effective disaster response.
Climate disasters are on the rise. Around 70 percent of disasters are now climate related – up from around 50 percent from two decades ago.
In the last decade, 2.4 billion people were affected by climate related disasters, compared to 1.7 billion in the previous decade.
The cost of responding to disasters has risen tenfold between 1992 and 2008. Destructive sudden heavy rains, intense tropical storms, repeated flooding and droughts are likely to increase.
Click here to go to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Climate disasters are on the rise. Around 70 percent of disasters are now climate related – up from around 50 percent from two decades ago.
In the last decade, 2.4 billion people were affected by climate related disasters, compared to 1.7 billion in the previous decade.
The cost of responding to disasters has risen tenfold between 1992 and 2008. Destructive sudden heavy rains, intense tropical storms, repeated flooding and droughts are likely to increase.
Click here to go to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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