Research and Reports: Drawing attention to key humanitarian concerns.

The “Human Impact Report: Climate Change - The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis” is the first major report to comprehensively document the full impact of climate change on human society. The report compiles the latest research from wide-ranging sources and creates a plausible account of today's human impact of climate change worldwide. The report aims to help refocus the climate change debate, long centered on distant environmental or future scenarios, towards its current human effects, breaking the silence of millions who are suffering.

The report provides a first assessment of the impacts of climate change on: health, poverty, water, human displacement, security and development. The report’s findings indicate that climate change is responsible each year for hundreds of thousands of deaths. It is a serious threat to over half the world’s population. Worst affected are some of the world’s poorest groups.

The report was compiled by Dalberg Global Development Advisors under supervision of the Global Humanitarian Forum, and reviewed by an esteemed Review Panel prior to publication.