The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis

Acknowledgments
Report team — We are grateful for the support of Dalberg Global Development Advisors
who provided a consulting team to manage the Human Impact of Climate Change project under
the auspices of the Global Humanitarian Forum in Geneva. The Dalberg team worked under the
supervision of the Forum’s report Steering Group comprising of Walter Fust (Chair), Martin Frick,
Matthew McKinnon (Coordinator), and Petra Heusser and included Søren Peter Andreasen, Tanja
Øglænd, Barbara Wagner, Jasmin Blak and Jacob Hariri. The Dalberg team was responsible for
analytical inputs, collaboration with external partners and experts, facilitation of the advisory panel,
and for compiling and editing the report.
Advisory panel — The Global Humanitarian Forum and Dalberg Global Development Advisors
would like to thank all contributors to this report, whose valuable insight and collaboration was much
appreciated. Specifically, we would like to thank our advisory panel: Nitin Desai, Jan Egeland, Saleemul
Huq, Andreas Merkl, Rajendra Pachauri, Johan Rockström, Jeffrey Sachs, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,
Barbara Stocking, Klaus Töpfer, and Margareta Wahlström without whom this report would not have
been possible.
Contributors to models and estimates — We would also like to give special thanks to Diarmid
Campbell-Lendrum, Roberto Bertolini, Maria Neira and colleagues at the World Health Organization; David
Rogers, Health and Climate Foundation; Paul Epstein, Harvard University; and A.J. McMichael, Australian
National University Canberra, for their valuable advice on the impact of climate change on global health,
along with Chris Hope for his collaboration in updating the Stern Model. We are extremely grateful to
Eberhard Faust and Angelika Wirtz of Munich Re and NatCatSERVICE along with David Bresch of Swiss
Re for providing valuable information and insight on disaster losses. Additional thanks also to Alyson
Warhurst and Andrew Hartley of Maplecroft and Peter G. Baines of University of Melbourne.
Special thanks go to Gunther Fischer, IIASA, and Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Research Centre,
for valuable input on food security. Caroline Sullivan of Southern Cross University, Australia, was
instrumental in the drafting and review of the water section, particularly in relation to her Climate
Vulnerability Index; a novel approach to measuring the impact of climate change on water pressures.
Special thanks go to Dieter Gerten and Jens Heinke of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact
Research (PIK) for their valuable collaboration in the calculation of an updated water stress figure.
Additionally, great thanks go to Blanca Jiménez, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico; Allali Abdelkader,
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