How do you get climate funding to conflict-hit nations?

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Politically fragile or conflict-hit countries such as Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen and a range of nations in Africa's Sahel often also feature on lists of countries most at risk from climate change. 

In many cases, their vulnerability to climate impacts - droughts, floods, extreme heat and crop failures - stems not just from the kind of extreme weather now facing a growing share of the world, but from a lack of investment to prepare for it.

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For many years, aid agencies have responded to humanitarian disasters in countries hit by weather shocks and conflict, providing emergency food and other help.

But as climate change and geopolitical shocks like Russia's invasion of Ukraine drive soaring demand for aid and higher prices for the wheat and other crops often provided as assistance, aid agencies are struggling to keep up.

The international aid system was already "overwhelmed" by rising need and inadequate funding before the Russia-Ukraine war, said Gernot Laganda, the climate and disaster risk reduction chief at the U.N. World Food Programme, last year.

That suggests as climate change brings worsening shocks, overwhelming aid networks, vulnerable people with few remaining options may need to migrate - or could simply die or face human trafficking or other perils - unless new ways to deliver help are put in place. 

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