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Why climate change? For people living in the world’s most fragile places, climate change can turn ordinary activities into daily struggles for survival. Failed harvests, prolonged droughts, floods and extreme weather make it harder to earn a living, access clean water and build a secure future.
Climate change deepens poverty and inequality, hitting those who are already vulnerable, and those least responsible for global emissions, hardest.
For families with limited savings or support, recovering from floods, storms and other climate-related disasters can mean rebuilding their lives from scratch.
But it shouldn’t be that way.
Concern works alongside people facing the impacts of climate change to overcome today’s challenges, build futures and look forward with hope. We support people and communities to prepare for, adapt to and recover from climate shocks, helping them strengthen their resilience and protect their livelihoods.
Our programmes combine immediate support with long-term solutions, integrating disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation across livelihoods, health, nutrition, WASH and education.
Through advocacy, we work with communities and partners to influence climate and disaster risk reduction policy and hold decision makers accountable. We also promote environmentally sustainable programme practices, support low-carbon development and are committed to reducing our own operational carbon emissions.
Together, we can help stop the extreme becoming everyday.
A closer look at our climate programmes
Climate change impacts are likely to play out disproportionately across countries, exacerbated by pre-existing inequalities. Those living in fragile and conflict-affected states are hit hardest because they are more vulnerable to the damaging effects of a hazard and have lower coping capacities and supports.
In addition, those hardest hits by the effects of climate change are often those least responsible for emissions.
Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Concern integrates climate-sensitive programming and climate adaptation across its work to ensure interventions respond to current and projected climate risks. By analysing how changing climate patterns shape vulnerability over time, we adapt existing and new interventions to strengthen the adaptive capacity and resilience of vulnerable communities, local systems and the natural environment. Where climate risks are a significant driver of vulnerability, Concern implements targeted climate adaptation interventions that support long term resilience and locally led adaptation.
In 2025, across 18 countries, 881,148 programme participants strengthened their capacity to anticipate, absorb and adapt to climate related hazards.
In Sierra Leone, the Green Climate Fund Coastal Resilience programme established 24 Community Adaptation Committees, including sub-committees dedicated to WASH, livelihoods, mangrove stewardship and coastal protection. Awareness raising on mangrove conservation improved biodiversity and strengthened natural coastal defence against erosion and storm surges.
Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience
Nature-based Adaptations and Resilience Solutions
