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New UN-backed report cites climate change among factors fuelling internal displacement

New UN-backed report cites climate change among factors fuelling internal displacement

May 13, 2016, at 01:49 pm

New York, May 13 (Just Earth News/IBNS): Disasters associated with slow processes of environmental change – drought, sea level rise and desertification – demonstrate again the growing importance of climate change as a driver of disaster risk, as senior United Nations official said on Thursday on the heels of the release of a global report which revealed that more than 19 million people in 2015 were forced from their homes by natural hazards