Description:
"This occasional policy paper aims to improve the
humanitarian sector?s understanding of the nexus between
climate change and violent conflict. This is crucial, given
that about 80 per cent of the humanitarian crises with an
inter-agency humanitarian appeal are conflict related,
and climate change is expected to exacerbate this. The
chair?s summary of the World Humanitarian Summit made
it clear that in order to prevent conflict, a complementary
approach which includes addressing climate change, is
needed. The High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing
also highlighted ?the growing inter-linkages between
humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and climate
change-related interventions” and their relevance for
humanitarian action.
This paper suggests a series of indicators and new metrics
for assessing the risk of climate change-induced conflict for
157 countries covering more than 99 per cent of the world?s
population. The aim is to identify indicators that can help
to identify countries that are exposed to what is described
here as the climate-conflict nexus, i.e, the intersection
between two key factors: weak institutions and pre-existing
social fragility, as well as climate change vulnerability.
Measuring and quantifying these interlinks, particularly
their humanitarian impact, is essential for delivering on
the High-Level Panel?s call to reflect their implications in
humanitarian finance allocations.
This paper identifies 20 countries [including Myanmar] in the climate-conflict
nexus. They encompass some 780 million people living
mostly in South Asia, South-East Asia and sub-Saharan
Africa. All of the countries in the climate-conflict nexus
are low- or lower-middle-income nations, where the
international humanitarian system is already actively
providing life-saving assistance to millions of people
affected by recurrent humanitarian crises......Contains a short case study of Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar...
Source/publisher:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
Date of Publication:
2016-05-00
Date of entry:
2016-07-01
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- Individual Documents
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Language:
English
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