{"id":43,"date":"2026-05-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/knowledge-hub\/climate-change-is-real\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:00:00","slug":"climate-change-is-real","status":"publish","type":"drg_publication","link":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/knowledge-hub\/climate-change-is-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change Is Real: Why Conflict-Affected Regions Face the Greatest Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This blog marks the beginning of a series exploring the intersection between climate change, conflict, and fragility. Across the upcoming blogs, five key climate-related concerns in conflict-affected settings will be examined in greater depth: water scarcity, food insecurity, land degradation and desertification, resource competition, and limited disaster response capacity, alongside their implications for public health and human security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through examples from countries such as Afghanistan and Sudan, this series aims to highlight how climate change is increasingly shaping humanitarian crises, displacement patterns, and local instability, while also exploring possible pathways towards more sustainable and conflict-sensitive responses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat. Its effects are visible across the globe \u2014 from rising temperatures and prolonged droughts to increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Climate Change as a Risk Multiplier in Fragile Contexts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A growing body of research demonstrates that climate change interacts with fragility, conflict, and violence in ways that intensify insecurity. Weak governance structures often lack the capacity to respond effectively to environmental shocks. Infrastructure \u2014 such as irrigation systems, roads, and water networks \u2014 is frequently damaged or underdeveloped, limiting both immediate response and long-term adaptation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Afghanistan, recurrent droughts and floods have displaced hundreds of thousands of people, particularly in rural areas where communities depend heavily on subsistence farming and pastoralism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"template":"","drg_publication_type":[4],"class_list":["post-43","drg_publication","type-drg_publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","drg_publication_type-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/drg_publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"drg_publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage.drg.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/drg_publication_type?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}