Climate Change: New IRC Report Warns: Aid Cuts and Unequal Climate Finance Are Leaving Conflict-Affected Communities behind

Oct 22, 2025
International Rescue Committee
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has released a new policy brief, “Navigating the Climate Crisis in a New Era of Aid,” ahead of the Berlin Climate Security Conference, calling for urgent global action to protect communities living at the intersection of climate crisis and armed conflict. The report reveals that 17 conflict-affected, climate-vulnerable countries—home to just 11% of the world’s population—account for 70% of humanitarian need and 70% of those facing crisis levels of food insecurity. Yet, in 2022, they received only 12% of adaptation finance allocated to developing countries.