; and (B) should be granted at least a temporary stay in the country where they have found refuge. (7) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change affirms with high confidence that societal adaptations in the near term can help reduce the risks of climate change throughout the 21st century. (8) Since 2013, typhoons and storms in the Philippines have displaced nearly 15,000,000 people. (9) Violence in Burma’s Rakhine State has forced nearly 1,000,000 Rohingya refugees into Bangladesh, where they are exposed to the country’s vulnerability to the effects of extreme flooding and landslides worsened by climate change. (10) In 2019, extreme flooding in Northern and Northeast India displaced at least 3,000,000 people, including almost 2,000,000 people in the Northern Indian state of Bihar and more than 1,700,000 people in Northeastern Assam state. (11) The small Pacific island Nation of Kiribati is preparing for large swaths of the country to be uninhabitable and for its people to migrate with the skill to integrate into their new host nation. (12) More than 150,000,000 people around the world now live on land that will be below sea level or regular flood levels by the end of the century unless adaptation measures are taken. (13) The effects of climate change also exacerbate social, economic, and political tensions within and among nations. (14) In 2014, the Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review cited the effects of climate change as a threat multiplier that could aggravate stressors abroad. (15) In 2016, a memorandum from the National Intelligence Counsel entitled Implications for U.S. National Security of Anticipated Climate Change highlighted how climate change could create or inflame tensions between nations in already disputed regions, such as the Arctic. (16) Continued climate change will drive further displacement. According to the International Organization for Migration, by 2050, there could be as many as 200,000,000 climate-displaced persons, including those who are internally displaced. (17) The