As global temperatures rise, warmer air and oceans are expected to fuel stronger hurricanes, with dangerous consequences.
This article finds evidence that “risk of armed-conflict outbreak is enhanced by climate related disaster occurrence in ethnically fractionalized countries”. The authors state that while each conflict is the result of a very context-specific mixture of factors, natural disasters triggered by anthropogenic climate change might act as a threat multiplier.
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Source: UNEP