Author(s)
de Geoffroy, V., Knox Clarke P., Bhatt, M., and Grunewald, F. with Doherty, J.
Adapting humanitarian action to the effects of climate change, 2021
21/10/2021
Humanitarian actors, working on the ground to deal with the effects of climate-related disasters, are well placed to observe the intensification of the effects of climate change, and the increasing complexity of the weather events, often extreme, they cause in all regions of the world, including regions where such events were previously rare or unknown. Lessons from previous experience will help mitigate some of the disasters that result from extreme weather events, some of which continue to follow familiar patterns, but new guidance - new lessons - are needed in the face of inevitably more complex disasters, some of them not yet imagined, much less understood.