Giving Compass' Take:

• Erica Sanchez and Leah Rodriguez report that humanitarian crises caused by climate change primarily impact low-income countries and receive little global attention. 

• How can funders work to bring attention to these crises? How can these countries be prepared to take on climate change to come? 

• Learn about the most neglected displacement crises of 2017. 

Low-income countries are hit the hardest by climate change-induced disaster, yet they receive the least media attention, the Guardian reports.

An analysis of more than 1 million online news stories showed climate change-induced crises to be the most underreported humanitarian disasters of 2018. The “Suffering in Silence 2018” report, published by CARE, showed devastating food crises that swept across Madagascar, Ethiopia, and Haiti barely received coverage.

While climate change caused drought and hurricanes that decimated food sources for people in Ethiopia and Haiti, no more than 1,000 global news stories were published about each disaster, according to the report. Severe El Niño conditions and drought destroyed crops in Madagascar that left more than 1 million people hungry and stunted half the country’s children. There were only 34,776 news reports on the top ten least reported humanitarian disasters.

Read the full article about humanitarian crises caused by climate change by Erica Sanchez and Leah Rodriguez at Global Citizen.