UN News · November 6, 2026
A new UNHCR report released before the COP31 climate talks in Türkiye finds that about three in four refugees, nearly 90 million people, live in countries highly exposed to drought, floods and extreme heat. It also finds that fragile, conflict-hit countries hosting many refugees get only about a tenth of global climate funding.
Displaced families in a camp in Baidoa, Somalia, live with the threat of flooding. (© IOM/Hanifah Abdikadir Ali)