Afghanistan is experiencing the most devastating impacts of climate change, according to the country's envoy at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting.

Speaking at the 15th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on the issues of climate change and its impact on human rights, Mohibullah Taib, Counsellor of Human Rights at the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan in Geneva, said hundreds of thousands of people in Afghanistan face the possibility of being displaced due to climate change, and that natural disasters in the country's north and northeast have also created a number of difficulties.