Theo James, British actor and newly appointed Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has called for the inclusion of refugees in climate policy on the world stage.

His plea came as he was heading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP29, to call for greater support for those affected by the impact of climate change.

In its first climate report released on Tuesday, the UNHCR revealed that three out of every four forcibly displaced people worldwide (about 90 million out of 120 million) live in countries that are highly or severely exposed to climate change.

James, whose grandfather was a refugee who fled Greece to Syria during World War II, will join the UNHCR and its advocates at the climate summit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, according to Reuters.

The star of the TV series The Gentlemen and the Divergent movie franchise traveled last month to the Eastern Basin of southeastern Mauritania, where he met refugees who fled conflict in Mali to a region already grappling with poverty, limited access to basic services, and climate shocks. The Sahel, a semi-arid region, has been experiencing increasing extreme weather events, including higher temperatures and droughts.

"Refugees do not contribute to the vast majority of rising global temperatures and carbon emissions but they are on the frontline of suffering," James told Reuters.

He added that the UNHCR now has specific data which links the climate crisis to forcibly displaced people and the refugee crisis, “we need to amplify the message that those two things are intimately interlinked," James said. "They will forever be hand in hand and more so in the future."

James further explained that the summit has been dubbed the "climate finance COP" for its central goal: to agree on how much money should go each year to helping developing countries cope with climate-related costs.