The world is experiencing an increasing number of climate-related disasters that trigger mass displacement and hunger. But did you know it's usually the countries contributing the least to climate change that bear the brunt?

Learn how conflict and climate change interact to form a compounded crisis in the Central Sahel, one of the world’s most vulnerable regions.

Learn how IRC teams are providing innovative solutions in the countries on the frontlines of climate change.

The IRC's new report, Watchlist Insight: Climate and Humanitarian Crisis in the Central Sahel, highlights the ways that long-term economic underdevelopment and political marginalisation are making communities in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger more vulnerable to the effects of both the climate crisis and protracted armed conflict.  

An estimated 23.7 million civilians in Afghanistan require humanitarian support for basic needs such as warm clothes for the winter, electricity, food and clean water. Having undergone the worst winter in 15 years in 2023, the colder, more remote provinces, such as the Bamiyan province, are still suffering disastrous effects.

The three global challenges of climate change, extreme poverty and conflict are converging to form a new epicentre of crisis. But these communities at the epicentre of the climate crisis are being unjustly abandoned by global leaders. Climate-vulnerable, conflict-affected communities contribute the least to climate change, bear its worst impacts, and yet have been consistently left out of the business-as-usual approach to climate action focused on stable settings. COP28 has the opportunity to address the climate injustices facing the most vulnerable communities worldwide - not just fragile states, but specifically climate-vulnerable, conflict-affected countries. Global leaders at the annual climate conference can shift power to the communities at the epicenter of the climate crisis and contribute to the achievement of climate justice by committing to: • Improving risk mapping of conflict-affected communities to target action where it is most needed; • Investing in innovative adaptation, resilience and anticipatory action designed for conflict settings; • Adopting a “people-first” approach to delivery through meaningful non-governmental partnerships; • Making climate finance more equitable and accessible to adequately resource action.

As Europe deals with a heat wave, people least responsible for global emissions are on the front lines of an urgent, deadly battle against climate change.

Four reasons why the International Rescue Committee’s Emergency Watchlist ranks South Sudan among the top 10 countries most at risk of experiencing a worsening humanitarian crisis in 2023.

Find out how climate finance helps the world’s most vulnerable communities address the impacts of climate change.

Climate change is set to unleash lasting damage across the world—even if we succeed in limiting global warming. It is also dramatically worsening already dire situations around the globe. It's time for all of us to become better stewards of the planet.