As the 25th UN climate summit gets underway in Spain, a new report by Oxfam has found disasters fuelled by climate change are the top driver of human displacement.
More than 20 million people across the globe have been displaced by"climate-fuelled" disasters in the past decade, new research by Oxfam has revealed.
“The current bushfires in Australia have shown that nobody is immune to the impacts of the climate crisis,” Oxfam Australia climate change advisor Simon Bradshaw told SBS News. On average, nearly five per cent of the populations of Tuvalu, Cuba and Dominica were displaced by extreme weather each year in the decade between 2008 and 2018.
It found people living in low-income countries such as India, Nigeria, and Bolivia are more than four times likely to be displaced by extreme weather disasters than people in richer countries, such as the United States or Australia."It’s very concerning because behind these numbers are people’s lives, their livelihoods," he said.
Spain's acting energy minister, Teresa Ribera, said she's looking for a clear signal of commitment from all members.
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