; and (B) states [t]he United States should identify ways to apply existing protection frameworks in the context of climate change-related displacement and to identify gaps where the United States should forge new legal pathways to protection. (19) As noted in a March 2023 report by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants' International Refugee Assistance Project and the Human Security Initiative, many asylum seekers have cited the destruction of their homes, agricultural lands, and businesses due to climate-related causes as contributing to their decisions to flee, as these climate-related environmental disasters exacerbated their conditions of marginalization. (20) The United Nations Human Rights Council has recognized that climate change poses an existential threat that has already negatively affected the fulfillment of human rights, specifically noting that— (A) all States should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights ; and (B) the adverse effects of climate change are felt most acutely by those segments of the population that are already in vulnerable situations owing to factors such as geography, poverty, gender, age, indigenous or minority status, national or social origin, birth or other status and disability . (21) The effects of climate change also exacerbate social, economic, and political tensions within and among nations. (22) The UNHCR Global Trends Report 2020 found, 95 percent of all conflict displacements in 2020 occurred in countries vulnerable or highly vulnerable to climate change. Disasters can also strike populations already uprooted by conflict, forcing them to flee multiple times, as was the case with [internally displaced persons] in Yemen, Syria and Somalia and refugees in Bangladesh. (23) Climate-vulnerable states experiencing protracted conflict, such as Afghanistan or Yemen, can be affected by multiple climate-related threats simultaneously, such as— (A) drought and flooding events in Afghanistan