Climate Change

Editorial Focus

Understanding the crisis of humanitarian action in the age of climate change

Whether this is the “age of crises”,[1]Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, States of Fragility 2022, OECD Publishing, 2022, https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/states-of-fragility-2022_c7fedf5e-en polycrisis or permacrisis, the idea that we are living in...

Clara Egger - Fernando Espada

Focus

Climate change and humanitarian crises: a nuanced perspective

The relationship between climate change and humanitarian crises is often oversimplified in public dis­course. Contrary to popular belief, climate change is not the direct cause of disasters, but rather an...

Rodrigo Mena

Focus

The climate crisis, an opportunity to reform the humanitarian sector

Faced with the intensification of human­itarian crises linked to climate change, this article offers a rethink of the humanitarian sector centred on a “new humanism” that integrates humans and ecosystems....

Pierre-Marie Goimard - Chloé Orland - Olivia Pélegrin

Focus

From ecological transition to environmental justice: reflections and dilemmas

Aline Hubert’s article is salutary in that it not only underlines both the aid sec­tor’s efforts and shortcomings in meet­ing the challenges of climate change, but also opens up new...

Aline Hubert

Focus

French humanitarian organisations factoring in climate change: what do their dedicated management tools tell us?

In the face of climate change, French humanitarian NGOs are adopting dif­ferent models while confronting a dual injunction: environmental and decolo­nial. The management tools they use reveal three distinct approaches,...

Vincent Pradier

Focus

Climate-humanitarian crisis in the Russia-Ukraine war: double vulnerabilities overlooked by the humanitarian response

In Ukraine, the direct dangers of the conflict are compounded by major environmental damage that is com­promising agriculture and ecosystems. According to the authors, despite the scale of international mobilisation,...

Andrii Bahinskyi - Nina Potarska

Forum

Climate change: humanitarian aid at a crossroads

Published on 6 December 2024 So what does a world at +2°C mean for international aid and development? With this question in mind, Groupe URD, in partnership with Humanitarian Alternatives,...

Damien Guillou

Focus

Responding to a non-traditional humanitarian crisis: the case of Northern Central America

The “Northern Triangle” of Central America might seem a good place to put the famous nexus into practice. However, the author feels that, for too long, the favour given to...

Julio E. Rank Wright

Innovations

Integrating a low-carbon strategy in an international aid and development organisation: the example of Électriciens sans frontières

Non-governmental organisations are no exception to the need to reduce our carbon footprint. In France, around ten of them have taken practical steps in this direction. Claire Desoubry explains the...

Claire Desoubry

Focus

Disasters in India and the mobilisation of national actors

The work CartONG does is invaluable. For this issue, it has produced a map and a chart to measure India’s vulnerability to extreme climate events and the involvement of its...

CartONG

Focus

Incorporating the sciences into humanitarian interventions: the case of anticipatory action

The anticipation of natural risks, especially due to climate change, has received increasing attention over the past few years. The author explains which forms this “anticipatory action” can take as...

Camille Balcou

Editorial Focus

Population science working hand-in-hand with humanitarian workers?

Vincent Léger is co-pilot of this issue’s Focus.

Vincent Léger