There are some 22 million people like Hassan displaced every year in climate-fueled disasters, according to the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM). COP27 READ:
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt – Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia – one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons.
“My wife died of hunger here, and I became helpless,” he said, speaking in a video interview distributed by the UN refugee agency. Some had lived along coastlines or on islands that are losing land to rising seas. Others in the Arctic fled crumbling cliffs as permafrost thaws. Some are seeking more financing for adapting to weather extremes. They also want rich nations to pay for“Each government impacted by climate change migrants can raise the subject” at the UN summit, said Caroline Dumas, the IOM’s special envoy for migration and climate action.
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