in collaboration with The World Government Summit is a global platform dedicated toshaping the future of governments worldwide. Each year, the Summitsets the agenda for the next generation of governments with a focuson how they can harness innovation and technology to solve universalchallenges facing humanity.The World Government Summit is a knowledge exchange center at theintersection of government, futurism, technology, and innovation. Itfunctions as a thought leadership platform and networking hub forpolicymakers, experts and pioneers in human development.The Summit is a gateway to the future as it functions as the stage foranalysis of future trends, concerns, and opportunities facing humanity.It is also an arena to showcase innovations, best practice, and smartsolutions to inspire creativity to tackle these future challenges.To Inspireand EnableThe Next Generationof GovernmentsWorld Government Summit01 Table of ContentsAuthorsExecutive SummaryIntroductionThe Climate Change Induced Displacement CrisisVulnerability, Planning and PreparednessWay ForwardTopics 060711152133 AuthorsJaivir Singh, Vice Chairman, PwC India Foundation &Leader, PwC Global Office for Humanitarian Affairs.Antara Ray, Director, Climate Resilience and DRR, PwC IndiaNidish Nair, Executive Director and Leader,Climate Resilience and DRR, PwC India ExecutiveSummary07 The increasing frequency, complexity and scale of climate changeevents is likely to have debilitating impacts on the state ofglobal development, stability and prosperity. Over 7,000 majordisasters occurred between 2000 and 2019, claiming 1.23million lives and affecting 4.2 billion people worldwide.1A totalof 389 climate-related disasters were recorded in 2020, resultingin the deaths of 15,080 people, affecting 98.4 million othersand inflicting $171.3 billion in economic damage.2Today, dueto extreme climate events, 34 million people are acutely foodinsecure while approximately 18 million lack regular access tosafe water.3In 2020, apart from causing destruction and scarcity,disasters forced over 33.4 million people to abandon their homesseeking shelter and security,4internally displacing three timesthe number of people uprooted by violence and conflict.The climate situation is rapidly fuelling poverty andinstability5and is likely to increase economic burdenson governments struggling with the management of thepandemic and ever-increasing humanitarian needs. Inthe current COVID-19 transition and recovery context, itis desirable for governments to integrate climate changeadaptation and mitigation strategies into decision makingand policy frameworks addressing recovery and resilience.Integration will secure governments and deliver on the globalvision for sustainable development through purposive andindirect reduction in vulnerability and poverty, while buildingpartnerships to protect our collective futures.To rebuild climate resilient pathways for equitable developmentwhile addressing existing and emerging humanitarianneeds, support that surpasses typical funding arrangementsis available through private sector engagement. Throughleveraging domain expertise, skillsets, networks and on-groundpresence, collaborations between the private sector, non-profitorganizations and governments are successfully addressingdiverse humanitarian sector needs, many of which are relevantto countering the impact of climate change through immediateresponse or more embedded and engaged collaborations forlong-term resilience. Successful private sector engagementscan potentially be executed via multi-stakeholder collaborativemodels across geographies and affected communities with afocus on localising capabilities and capacities.This paper presents an overview of current and emergingchallenges from climate change and climate induceddisplacement, examples of collaborative models, availableexpertise addressing similar challenges in varied contexts, anintegrative model for designing interventions and next steps forgovernments, non-profits and the private sector in executingthese interventions. The main objective of the paper is to providerecommendations for exploring non-traditional engagementpartnerships with the private sector for developing solutions toaddress climate change induced displacement and its impact onremote, evolving and complex landscapes.Impact of DisastersExtreme climateevents inducedFood InsecurityExtreme climateevents induceddisplacement•7,000 major disasters between 2000 and2019 worldwide•1.23 million lives lost and 4.2 billion peopleaffected•34 million people acutely food insecure•18 million people lack regular access to safewater.•30 million people displaced due to disastersin 2020•Disasters caused 3 times more displacementthan violence in 2020 1. The Cost Of Climate Change and the Displacement CrisisResponding to 335 natural disasters in 2017 cost governments$340 billion while the cost of damage caused by natural disasters- ensuring response, reconstruction and recovery - increas