Fragility and conflict

The World Economic Forum has published its Global Risks Report 2024, highlighting the need for dialogue in the face of growing global fractures.

The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict.

This report was written to catalyse change across the climate adaptation, disaster risk management, and humanitarian sectors to focus on the most vulnerable and excluded, who are least responsible, but most affected by the climate crisis.

In Dubai, leaders should focus their attention on policy solutions for vulnerable regions where climate change is amplifying the consequences of armed conflict and compounding failures of governance.

Building Forward Better argues for a new way of thinking about and delivering the climate agenda in fragile and conflict-affected situations.

WMO and its partners are stepping up efforts to make sure that nobody is left behind in the international drive towards Early Warnings For All.

Wars and insecurity can complicate getting help to the people who are most at risk from climate-change-related threats. Requirements for donors also stand in the way of cash flow to fragile countries but tracking how money is spent can be more difficult.

This paper explores what is driving the conflict-climate gap, and what we know about armed group behaviour and potential forms of engagement.