Climate emergency: What is and what are its effects

Surely you have heard of the climatic emergency, because it is a concept that we find more often in the informative media. But what really is climatic emergency? There is scientific evidence that indicates that the world is facing this crisis caused, mainly, by burning fossil fuels by humans, which has enhanced the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) directly altering the composition of the atmosphere and the world average temperaturemaking it increase significantly, so climate change has been triggered and accelerated.

The climate emergency state indicates the negative impact on people’s livesthe ecosystems and the economy that have caused the actions of the human being and that translate into adverse effects such as The temperature rise, desertification, sea rise or water scarcityall of them direct and interconnected effects of climate change, one of the greatest challenges for the future of life on the planet, as we know it today.

The effects of climate change are repeated day after day and are increasingly causing a greater displacement of people affected by these adverse phenomena that they bring accordingly Lack of water, food, basic resources or household losswhich ends up translating into a humanitarian emergency.

Talking about the effects of climate emergency is to do all natural alterations that can directly affect our life as we know it today, such as:

• Impact on biodiversity: affectation of essential processes of organisms, proliferation of invasive species, changes in migratory patterns …
• Fires: These phenomena are increasingly intense due to the increase in average temperature and the decrease in rainfall.
• Thaw: The loss of glaciers is accelerating at very high rhythms.
• Sea level rise: As a consequence of the thaw, it can cause loss of natural spaces or even cities.
• Desertification: Chronic drought is causing various areas of the world to run the risk of becoming deserts.
• Temperature increase: Global warming encourages heat waves in summer, increasingly implacable and lasting, which causes imbalances in ecosystems and people.
• Extreme weather phenomena: Torrential rains, droughts, extreme heat, strong storms, earthquakes, hurricanes … The frequency of these phenomena has increased causing natural disasters and an unprecedented humanitarian emergency.

From the UNHCR Spanish Committeework with the objective of ensuring the respect and international protection of refugees, displaced and asylum seekers, channeling the necessary funds of ACNUR to develop a Humanitarian aid work and to be able to reach as much as possible of the more than 114 million refugees and displaced people in the world. Without a doubt, the effects of climate change and its consequences have become one of the main motifs of displacement.

To help these refugees due to climatic emergency, ACNUR urges states to take urgent, necessary and joint measures, in order to mitigate the effect of such effects of climate change. In this sense, there are three basic challenges to work:

• Reduce the impact on the environment.
• Serve the climate displaced.
• Help victims of natural disasters.

But, in addition to this, ACNUR works in a humanitarian response policy, in order to mitigate the effects of climate change and improve the lives of refugees, through actions such as reforestation, support for renewable energy or ecological fuels, boost recycling and care of the environment and, above all, focusing on the assistance and protection of climate refugees.

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