A new report and factsheet were published on climate fragility risks in Afghanistan. For the past four decades, this country has suffered from the devastating impacts of constant armed conflict. Many Afghans are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as a result of their exposure to droughts, floods and other natural disasters, as well as their reliance on climate-sensitive livelihoods such as rain-fed agriculture and pastoralism. Conflicts have increased Afghanistan’s vulnerability to climate change, the impacts of which may, in turn, help to create the conditions for continued violence.
The report and fact sheet give an overview of climate fragility risks and present entry points for addressing them. They are authored by Oli Brown of Chatham House and written for the Climate Security Expert Network. They were published on a new website by this group, that aims to feed the Climate Security mechanism of the UN system. The secretariat is based at adelphi in Berlin.
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