Humanitarian Action Must Adapt to Climate Change Realities

The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat in the future. Its effects are happening now, impairing human rights, creating new humanitarian needs and exacerbating and protracting those that already exist. 2020 was one of the three warmest years on record, with a global mean temperature of 1.2 °C above pre-industrial times. The past six years were the hottest on record, and 2010-2019 was the hottest decade on record, characterized by climate- and extreme-weather-related disasters, such as heatwaves, droughts, tropical storms and acute floods.