Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Afghanistan*

Written by

Ingvild Brox Brodtkorb

Research Fellow

Kheira Tarif

Researcher, SIPRI

Katongo Seyuba

Researcher, SIPRI

Thor Olav Iversen

Senior Researcher

Ed.

Cedric H. de Coning

Research Professor

Florian Krampe

Senior Researcher, SIPRI

Summary:

Afghanistan faces severe climate vulnerability while being more exposed to extreme weather events and natural hazards (including droughts and floods) than the global average. This has been compounded by environmental degradation caused by prolonged conflict, poor natural resource management and limited resilient infrastructure. Together with complex humanitarian and economic crises and mass returns of Afghans from Iran and Pakistan, all these factors deepen the population’s vulnerability to overlapping crises.

* This is an updated version of the fact sheets on Afghanistan published in February 2022 and February 2023.

Published year: 2026
Publisher: NUPI & SIPRI
Page count: 4
Language: English