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Protecting People in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: Setting the Scene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Kirsten Hagon
Kirsten Hagon*
Affiliation:
Senior Analyst, Humanitarian Policy and Diplomacy Unit, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
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For the 2020 World Disasters Report, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) compiled and analyzed disaster data since the 1960s, looking globally at the number and type of disasters, the number of people affected and how and where and reviewing how this has changed over time. When looking at the trends in disaster data, the impact of climate crisis is clear.

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Protecting People in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 115 , 2021 , pp. 156 - 158
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 IFRC, World Disasters Report 2020 (July 5, 2021), at https://www.ifrc.org/media/8968.