US EditionNew Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region
The 2024 heatwave caused record temperatures above 50°C, worsening droughts, floods, and dust storms, with 83% more disasters reported in Arab countries since 2000, WMO said.
- On Thursday, the World Meteorological Organization reported 2024 was the hottest year on record for the 22 Arab region countries, affecting about 480 million people with intensifying heat.
- WMO data show temperatures in the Arab region rise twice the global average, with six consecutive failed rainy seasons worsening drought in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
- Human impacts are mounting, with climate extremes killing at least 300 people in 2024 and Egypt's Nile Delta sinking, putting about 40 million residents at risk.
- WMO warned that without stronger adaptation, pressures on energy, transport and public health systems will intensify despite nearly 60 per cent of Arab countries having early warning systems.
- The report notes the region includes 15 of the world's most arid countries, highlighting an adaptation gap despite investments, while ESCWA models project up to 5 degrees Celsius rise by century's end.
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A recent (paywalled) Financial Times (FT) article, “‘Too hot to handle’: climate change pushing Arab region to limits, says WMO,” claims that the Arab region is being simultaneously hammered both by increasing heatwaves, droughts, and paradoxically, more flooding, and extreme rainfall, all due to human use of fossil fuels. The FT’s story is misleading at best, and false at worst. While one World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report referenc…
New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in Arab Region
Foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.By Bob BerwynAs global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine and the risk of mass displacement, the World Meteorological Organization warned Thursday.
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