Al-Sahwa [Archives:2008/1136/Press Review]
Thursday, March 6
Top Stories
– Government leads 'a bread war' against citizens
– Joint Meeting Parties deny that they resumed dialogue with General People Congress
– Qatari mediation team quits intervention in Sa'ada efforts, flies back home
– A burnt human body found in military prison
– Ja'ashin citizens attempt to escape powerful sheikh's oppression
– Influential persons grab a plot of land belonging to an Aden-based cultural association
– Yemen threatened by climate change, says UN report
Discussed at a regional conference in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo, A UN report, revealed that Yemen is threatened by climate change the most, given its existing low income levels, rapidly growing population and alarming water shortage, the weekly reported in one of its front page stories.
“Changes in temperature, rainfall and climatic extremes will only add to the stress on agricultural resources in Middle East where land vulnerability and degradation, food price shocks and population growth are already a major concern,” the weekly quoted the report as saying.
According to the UN report, among the problems climate change could cause is an increased risk of conflict over the scarce resources. In the meantime, FAO says that the Middle East and North Africa are particularly exposed to water shortages and thus an additional 155 to 600 million people may suffer a worsening water shortage in North Africa with a three degree Celsius temperature rise. “The number of dry days is expected to increase everywhere in the region,” said Wulf Killmann, chair of FAO's working group on climate change.
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