Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2023

Abstract

According to the IPCC AR6 report, The global temperature over the past 10 years has warmed 11 degrees more than during the pre-industrial era (1850-1900). Greenhouse gas concentrations were higher in 2019. Climate change is rapid, intensifying, and affecting all regions of the world. If emissions of CO2, methane and other greenhouse gases are not reduced, the goal of limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees will be out of reach. The ice caps continue to melt, and the sea level continues to rise. The negative effects of climate change are an intensification of extreme events such as tropical cyclones, sea level rise, heavy precipitation or drought and heat waves. These effects have an impact on nature and biodiversity through the loss of mountaintop ecosystems, tropical coral reefs and coastal wetlands, but also on the lives of certain populations: between 3.3 and 3.6 billion people are highly vulnerable, particularly in Africa, South Asia, Central/South America, the Arctic and on small islands. These negative effects create alarming risks: a lack of water and food that raises the question of food security; increased poverty; environmental migration and the extinction of certain species which, in the warmest countries, is multiplied by 10 when global warming increases from 1.5 to 3 degrees.

Journal Title

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

ISSN

2334-282X

Publisher

Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University Chicago

Volume

25

Issue

2

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