Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR): Climate Change

Brown University’s Climate and Development Lab (CDL) produces timely, accessible and impactful research that informs a more just and effective climate change policy.

Climate Diplomacy analyses the international debates on climate diplomacy and security, while developing key narratives, contributing to awareness raising and capacity building efforts, and supporting international and regional dialogues around the world.

The RICHAMP project advances storm model capabilities and develops a real-time hazard and impact prediction system for hurricanes and nor'easters in Southern New England. The system includes cascading consequences of extreme weather impacting critical infrastructure (such as wastewater treatment facilities, sewer systems, airports and seaports). 

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is the specialized agency of the UN for meteorology, operational hydrology, and related geophysical sciences a year later.

Resources from the USNWC Climate Change Portal

This 2020 article explores examples of migration caused by climate change in the USA and abroad.

A five part series of articles exploring the influence of climate change on conflicts from around the world.

Forest fires in the Hama region of Syria show how ecological losses and battles over resources feed off of each other in a conflict.

Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform agriculture and remake the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.

Over the next 50 years, as many as 3 billion people may decide to move due to climate conditions causing huge disruption around the world. Just how disruptive that move will be depends a great deal on how the people in the more temperate parts of the world react, & how wealthier populations within those countries handle unequal exposure to climate impacts.

This plan outlines how the DoD is to integrate climate change adaptation and climate resilience across agency programs, management of real property, public lands and waters, and financial services amongst other things.

The Climate Action 2030 is a strategy set out by the Department of the Navy (DON) to achieve the Nation’s commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, while becoming a more capable, agile, and lethal fighting force.

USAID's new Climate Strategy that will guide our humanitarian and development work through 2030 in a way that is truly different: by calling on all corners of USAID to play a part in our whole-of-Agency response.

Eight of the ten countries hosting the most multilateral peace operations personnel in 2018 are located in areas highly exposed to climate change. This policy brief illustrates how climate change impacts the efficacy of peacebuilding in these areas.

The Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements was established on 20 February 2020 in response to the extreme bushfire season in Australia in 2019-20. The Commission examined coordination, preparedness for, response to and recovery from disasters as well as improving resilience and adapting to changing climatic conditions and mitigating the impact of natural disasters.

A NATO Agenda on Climate Change and Security provides a 360-degree approach and encompasses measures to increase both NATO's and Allies' awareness of the impact of climate change on security.

In the central Sahel, states are mobilising to combat the impact of climate change as way of reducing conflict. But to respond suitably to growing insecurity, it is important to look beyond a simplistic equation linking global warming and resource scarcity to outbreaks of violence.

The Guidelines on the Protection of the Natural Environment in Armed Conflict set out rules and recommendations relating to the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian law (IHL).

Observing, Analysing, and Acting for Global Equity and the Preservation of Livelihoods. Produces the the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) each year.

This report provides an overview of U.S. climate change policy as of September 2021. It begins with background on U.S. emission trends and a brief history of U.S. climate change policy, and discusses emissions mitigation activities at the subnational level, including state and regional programs.