Griffith continued to emphasize that climate change is the "core issue" of peace and security now and even in the coming decades. At present, people in South Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Somalia are already in the front line affected by climate change, so they are faced with the problems of drought, flood, desertification and water shortage.

Griffith urged all countries to give priority to more long-term coping methods and ensure that a considerable proportion of funds can be used in the form of contributions to adapt to and mitigate climate change.

WFP/Arete/Siegfried Modola is in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. Internally displaced mothers take their children to participate in the WFP famine assessment.

On the same day, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, who also briefed the Security Council, said that during his just concluded trip to Central America, he personally felt how the conflict had "fuelled" the already serious hunger crisis. He also said that "we are facing a global emergency of unprecedented scale" under the threat of multiple famines that may break out in the world.