Climate Threats, Fragility, and Conflict Risks

Climate Change
Written By Cate Urban

How do the set of countries that are most threatened for heightened climate risks relate to the set of fragile or conflict‐ affected states?

  • Countries with high fragility:

    • The risks of conflict are already very high due to many other factors

    • The consequences of climate change join those factors

  • Countries with low fragility:

    • Existing macro-level attributes of state and society suggest potential for mitigating any conflict risks that climate threats may cause

  • Programming Implications:

    • In fragile and non-fragile states, programming to address climate threats should be sensitive to its impact on preexisting conditions (existing mitigators or vulnerabilities) that relate to violent conflict

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Climate Threats, Fragility, and Conflict Risks

Source: USAID
Year: 2011

Cate Urban

I founded Urban Web Renovations after 11 years of leading global marketing strategies for nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC. In each position I held, one thing remained the same – my passion for managing web sites and social media accounts for both organizations and major thought leaders.

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