Climate migration: one more effect of economic inequalities

In 2024, our planet reached the highest average temperature since records began. The effects of these temperatures are not only heat waves, but also the alteration of the water cycle and the intensification of extreme phenomena such as droughts, forest fires, storms or floods. One of the closest and most devastating examples has been the Dana that on October 29 affected the populations of Valencia and Albacete and left more than 200 dead and thousands affected.

Scientific evidence supports the unequivocal existence of climate change, which leads us to the current scenario where natural disasters are increasingly powerful and recurrent, intensifying human and material losses.

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