“Local communities say, climate change is creating ‘cascading effects of climate change from which we cannot recover’” At Climate Refugees we believe frontline communities should be at the center of informing decision-making processes. Extreme weather and climate change-related events are disproportionately impacting the world’s poorest and marginalized people. We are not alone in our beliefs, with just about every policy …

Global human mobility in the context of climate change and associated environmental degradation and disasters has become a subject of high-level political interest. There is strong demand for evidence-based quantitative understanding of how climate has affected mobility thus far and how it may do so in future. This report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Global Data Institute explores …

A recent report from Ground Truth Solutions, ICCCAD and IIED shows that people on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh see the assistance they receive as not responding to their most pressing needs and failing to take their views into account. This case study will set out key findings from the report and make the case for …

Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change “Addressing the human rights implications of climate change displacement including legal protection of people displaced across international borders” This submission is based on Climate Refugees’ October 2022 in-country research in Kenya and Somalia on climate-induced displacement, migration and human rights …

“When we asked them what had displaced them, they replied with one simple word: Water.” — IDP, Baringo County, Kenya Upon invitation from the United Nations Transitional Committee (TC) on the operationalization of the new funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage, Climate Refugees submitted this case study on climate-driven loss and damage in Kenya to inform TC discussions …

This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledgeof climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and socio-economic literature since the publication of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) in 2014. Main Resources Link Longer Report

In October 2022, Scotland hosted a conference which brought together international representatives and practitioners to articulate best practice and explore innovative new opportunities to mobilise finance for, and address Loss and Damage ahead of COP27. Insights for Accelerating Action on Loss and Damage Issues of climate justice, gender equality and human rights are central to the Scottish Government’s approach to addressing loss and damage …

This report was developed jointly by UNDP and UNDRR in order to guide the next generation of disaster data systems (DDS). UNDP and UNDRR conducted an in-depth analysis of the current status of national disaster database systems in 13 countries globally by applying UNDP’s Digital Disaster Risk Reduction Maturity Model (DDRRMM) assessments, which were developed to provide guidance to governments, …

Vulnerable countries and communities are already facing loss and damage resulting from climate impacts, and urgently need financial support to recover and rebuild livelihoods and infrastructure. Despite increasing demands, however, finance for addressing loss and damage has been largely absent and falls far short of the scale of needs. There are also gaps in the existing climate finance architecture that …