A migrant family crosses the US-Mexico border from Ciudad Juarez into El Paso, Texas last month.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said about 2.3 million others were displaced by conflict in the same period, indicating the vast majority of internal displacements are now triggered by climate change. “Things are getting worse as climate change aggravates existing factors like poverty, conflict, and political instability,” Brunt said.
Statistics from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre show that on average 22.7 million people are displaced every year.
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