European Disaster Volunteers

There are thousands of case studies, reports, and first hand-accounts about how climate change is driving disaster and how those processes are affecting lives around the world. In this section, we've picked out just a few key sources so that you can learn more about the key issues. 

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Guide: Disaster Management

Produce by the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, this paper focuses on climate change's influence on disasters and the need to adjust our approach to disaster risk reduction and response accordingly.

Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement

Climate change not only increases the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, it makes communities more vulnerable to disaster by forcing them to migrate. In this academic paper, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees elaborates on the problem of climate change and forced migration.

Right to Survive in a Changing Climate (Background)

In this report, Oxfam outlines the effects climate change is having on disaster and on people worldwide. The full report is also available. (The Right to Survive - Full Report)

Tajikistan Case Study

This Oxfam report illustrates the effects of climate change, highlighting the combined effects of climate change, increasing disaster, and poverty.

Climate Change, People, and Poverty

This paper brings together the voices of affected populations and scientists to shed light on the increasing effects of climate change, disaster, and poverty.