Dire UN Report Warns of Conflicts Worsened by Climate Change

Feb 28, 2022 | Ja'han Jones
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of experts assembled by the U.N. to represent 195 governments, said in its report Monday that “climate change has caused substantial damages, and increasingly irreversible losses, in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems." The impacts of climate change are “larger than estimated in previous assessments," according to the report.

Some of their most dire warnings concerned the conflicts that could arise in a climate-afflicted world, where communities are forced to compete for increasingly scarce resources such as food, water and shelter. 

The panel report’s specific warnings come at a time when global strife — including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — is in focus, with several communities around the world seeking refuge in foreign countries. Climate change and the scarcity it creates, the experts warned, will color those interactions.