Climate Crisis Fuels Flooding and Deepens Displacement, Making Life Even Harder for People Already Uprooted from Their Homes
Climate change exacerbates the risk of displacement. The past decade saw on average 24 million displacements caused by disasters every year: 92 per cent were triggered by weather-related hazards (with floods accounting for nearly half of these), and the rest by geophysical hazards, such as earthquakes. In 2023, floods caused 9.8 million displacements.
Displacement and climate vulnerability are intertwined, especially in conflict-affected settings: 60 per cent of the world’s 114 million refugees and people internally displaced by conflict are in countries on the front lines of climate change, exacerbating the protection needs and risks for displaced people and contributing to new, onward, and protracted displacement.
As a result, it is the most vulnerable people in the world who are disproportionately affected by flooding and other climate shocks and stresses.
This includes refugees and displaced people who lack basic resources, permanent shelters and robust social safety nets, and who may be excluded from government measures to strengthen flood preparedness and resilience.
Host communities are also hit hard, especially those living in informal settlements and shantytowns in flood-prone areas where infrastructure such as drainage and wastewater treatment is often inadequate, and homes flimsy.
Because of its global presence, partnerships, and emergency preparedness, UNHCR is well-placed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the protection and humanitarian consequences of floods in displacement settings and, when requested by governments, to extend assistance to all people displaced by floods.
In April 2024, UNHCR announced its campaign to raise $100 million for a new Climate Resilience Fund. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said, “The impacts of climate change are only becoming more devastating, increasingly exacerbating conflict, destroying livelihoods and, ultimately, triggering displacement.”
The fund will address these challenges head-on by advancing climate resilience initiatives and supporting communities most vulnerable to climate threats, reducing the environmental impact of emergency responses, providing sustainable resources and clean energy for refugees and displaced people, and helping equip them to withstand future climate shocks.
A UNHCR staff member distributes emergency items to refugees displaced by floods in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee settlement. © UNHCR/Eric Bakuli
When a climate shock strikes, UNHCR responds rapidly in partnership with governments, other UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations.
UNHCR launches public fundraising appeals for individual crises so that people who want to can help us deliver basic necessities to mitigate the immediate effects of displacement, destruction, hunger, disease and disruption of livelihoods.
Essential items include blankets, mosquito nets, tarpaulins, emergency shelters, gas cylinders, kitchen sets, female sanitation kits, soap and jerry cans, as well as help to evacuate affected families to safety and rehabilitate refugees’ shelters when the waters subside.
In the immediate aftermath of a flood or other climate shock, your support can make all the difference. To help those affected by recent flooding disasters, you can donate here.
A girl looks out of the tent where her family are living after their home was damaged by flooding in northeastern Afghanistan. © UNHCR/Wahid Ahmad Enayat
SOURCE: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Go to ORIGINAL: https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/climate-crisis-fuels-flooding-and-deepens-displacement 2024 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2024/07/13/climate-crisis-fuels-flooding-and-deepens-displacement-making-life-even-harder-for-people-already-uprooted-from-their-homes/
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