Climate change is no longer a distant threat — it is a present global emergency. Across the world, its impacts are destroying livelihoods, deepening inequalities, and forcing millions of people to leave their homes.

Prolonged droughts, devastating floods, and rising sea levels have become daily realities for communities already burdened by poverty and conflict. Climate change multiplies these vulnerabilities, eroding food security, intensifying competition for scarce resources, and undermining peace.

Yet amid this crisis, many communities are coming together to protect their land and rebuild their lives. They are finding creative ways to grow food, adapt to extreme weather, and demand public policies that safeguard their future.

JRS’s Approach

JRS is part of a growing Jesuit and wider faith-based movement for reconciliation with creation — a collective response to our shared calling to care for our common home and to serve the most vulnerable, who bear the greatest burdens of the climate crisis.

We recognise that responding to forced displacement today requires confronting the environmental and social injustices that drive it. There can be no true protection of human dignity without a habitable planet. For this reason, we are committed to integrating eco-social justice across all our programmes.

What JRS Is Doing

Across the world, JRS accompanies communities on the frontlines of the climate emergency, working to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change. We walk alongside them as they find sustainable solutions to adapt to their new realities.

In Africa and Asia, we accompany rural and coastal populations adapting to frequent floods, rising sea levels, and degraded land — helping communities strengthen resilience through training, research, and awareness-raising.

In Latin America, JRS supports families who have lost their livelihoods to hurricanes and droughts. We document how human actions intensify climate events that cause displacement, and we advocate for just, inclusive solutions.

JRS serves as a bridge between local realities and global policy, ensuring that climate-induced displacement is seen, understood, and addressed. We advocate for national and international policies that recognise and protect those most affected.

The challenges are immense — but so too is our shared capacity for hope. As climate change reshapes our world, JRS remains committed to accompanying those most affected, transforming compassion into action.