Climate Change, Water And The Policy-Making Process In The Levant And North Africa; The Syria Case (English Summary) - Ifi Region-Specific Study

Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change, Water and the Policy-Making Process in the Levant and North Africa; The Syria Case (English Summary)Abdallah Droubi
At a closed workshop held by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in August 2009, leading water experts tackled the issue of climate change with a specific regard to Syria. The Middle East is considered to be the world’s most water-stressed regions where the average temperature over the Mediterranean has increased from 1.5 to 4 degrees Celcius in the last 100 years, and drought events are expected to increase tenfold over the next 100 years. Syria specifically, due to the type of vegetation it holds as well as the types of industries it specialises in, will be directly affected in a negative manner by climate change unless direct action is taken.