Overview
- The No Escape II report finds weather-related disasters caused roughly 250 million internal displacements over the past decade.
- By mid-2025, 117 million people were displaced by war, violence and persecution, with three-quarters living in countries facing high to extreme climate hazards.
- The number of countries reporting both conflict- and disaster-related displacement has tripled since 2009, with extreme-exposure countries projected to rise from three to 65 by 2040 that together host over 45% of conflict-displaced people.
- By 2050, the hottest 15 refugee camps in the Gambia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Senegal and Mali are projected to face nearly 200 days of hazardous heat stress per year, threatening habitability.
- UNHCR warns that funding cuts and a climate-finance shortfall leave fragile hosts with about a quarter of needed resources and calls for finance to reach communities at highest risk.