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 A publication of the Global Humanitarian Forum
Climate change is here. It has a human ace. This report details the nevertheless silent crisisoccurring around the world today as a result o global climate change. It is a comprehensiveaccount o the key impacts o climate change on human society. Long regarded as a distant,environmental or uture problem, climate change is already today a major constraint on all humaneorts. It has been creeping up on the world or years, doing its deadly work by aggravating ahost o other major problems aecting society, such as Malaria and poverty. This report aimsat breaking the silent suering o millions. Its fndings indicate that the impacts o climate change areeach year responsible or hundreds o thousands o deaths with hundreds o millions o people directlyand severely aected. Climate change is a serious threat to over hal o the world’s population. Hal a billion people are at extreme risk. Worst aected are the world’s poorest groups, who lack anyresponsibility or causing climate change.
Human Impact Report
Climate Change
 
Human Impact Report
Climate Change
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Cover Picture:Laurent Weyl, Collecti Argos. ‘Elderly woman looking ater her cow on top o a large dyke.’Sea-level rise and changing monsoon patterns have changed the landscape where she grew up.District o Satkhira, ‘Bangladesh: Le grand debordement’
Introduction
 
Kof Annan
 
President, Global Humanitarian Forum
 Advisory panel members
 
Nitin Desai
Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, India;Distinguished Fellow, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Jan Egeland
Former Director, Norwegian Institute o International Aairs;UN Under-Secretary-General or Humanitarian Aairs and Emergency Relie Coordinator (2003–2006)
Saleemul Huq
Senior Fellow, Climate Change, International Institute or Environment and Development (IIED), London
 Andreas Merkl
 Andreas Merki, Director, Global Initiatives, ClimateWorks Foundation, San Francisco.
Rajendra K. Pachauri
Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC);Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI); Director, Yale Climate and Energy Institute
Johan Rockström
Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Stockholm Resilience Centre
Jerey Sachs
Director, The Earth Institute, Colombia University, New York; Quetelet Proessor o Sustainable Development and o Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the MillenniumDevelopment Goals.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Founding Director, Potsdam Institute or Climate Impact Research (PIK);Member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Barbara Stocking
Chie Executive, Oxam GB
Klaus Töper
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (1998-2006)
Margareta Wahlström
 
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Disaster Risk Reduction
Conclusion
 Walter FustCEO/Director-General, Global Humanitarian Forum; Chair, Steering Group, Human Impact Report: Climate Change
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