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The “Human Impact Report: Climate Change - The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis” is the first major report to comprehensively document the full impact of climate change on human society. The report compiles latest research from wide-ranging sources into a plausible account of today's human impact of climate change worldwide. The report aims to help refocus the climate change debate, long centered on distant environmental or future scenarios, towards its current human effects, breaking the silent suffering of millions.
The report provides a first assessment of the orders of magnitude of impacts caused by climate change in different respects: health, poverty, water, human displacement, security and development. The report’s findings indicate that climate change is responsible each year for hundreds of thousands of deaths. It is a serious threat to over half of the world’s population. Worst affected are some of the world’s poorest, who lack any responsibility for causing climate change.
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The report was compiled by Dalberg Global Development Advisors under supervision of the Global Humanitarian Forum, and submitted to an esteemed Review Panel prior to publication.
Read the full report here.
| Climate change is a global problem with varying local effects. In the words of Kofi Annan: “People everywhere deserve not to suffer because of climate change. People everywhere deserve a future for their children. People everywhere deserve to have leaders who find the courage to achieve a solution to this crisis.” Above all, it is a fundamental injustice that the world’s poorest groups, who are responsible for less than 1% of global emissions that are the principle cause of climate change, suffer 99% of the casualties it brings. |
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The Forum works to analyze and raise awareness on the various facets of climate justice. The Forum's campaigning work on climate justice aims at public mobilization and sensitization around key political opportunities for tackling climate change, notably the negotiations leading to the UN Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen this December (COP-15). The Forum Campaigning work is carried out in close cooperation with key members of the global civil society, such as Oxfam, Greenpeace, WWF, Avaaz, the Global Campaign for Action Against Poverty, 350.org, the World Council of Churches, Christian Aid, and many others [link to list of GCCA under Campaign].