This is climate breakdown: a new series exploring the real impacts on people

How do you capture the effects of the climate crisis on people right now? We have collected testimonies from around the world

• This is climate breakdown: I heard on the scanner there's a child in the water'

In March 2024, the Guardian's environment desk began collaborating on a project that we hope will give voice to the growing number of people around the world living through the daily impact of climate breakdown. Our journalists have worked alongside researchers and humanitarian workers at the Climate Disaster Project (CDP) in Canada and the International Red Cross to compile a series of testimonies from survivors of recent extreme weather events.

CDP is an international teaching newsroom coordinated out of the University of Victoria in Canada that collaborates with disaster survivors. The teams are trained in trauma-informed interview skills, and spent hours speaking with people, listening to their stories and then relaying them in a way that takes us all through the experience. In publishing these testimonies and sharing them with you, we were able to help fulfil the project's aim of creating a people's history of climate change" that would honour the dignity of the survivors.