Our Planet Climate and Geopolitics
At least 40 people have died in western Yemen after heavy rains and flooding. Five more are missing and more than 500 homes had to be evacuated, according to local authorities. Yemen’s displacement crisis – one of the worst in the region after ten years of war – has been significantly aggravated by climate disasters impacting food security, aid delivery, housing and livelihoods. According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center, 240,000 people were displaced by climate-related events in 2023, three times more than those displaced by the conflict. That includes forest fires, cyclones, floods, and droughts. But increasing floods in particular meant 174,000 people had to flee their homes in 2023, up from 10,000 people a decade earlier.
