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Climate change and migration: Understanding factors, developing opportunities in the Sahel Zone, West Africa and the Maghreb
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Amal El Ouassif, Senior International Relations Specialist at the Policy Center for the New South, will be presenting a report she co-authored titled “Climate change and migration: Understanding factors, developing opportunities in the Sahel Zone, West Africa and the Maghreb” during a panel co-organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, the European Institute of Mediterranean and the Union for the Mediterranean. This report underscores the immediate need for political interventions to address the escalating impact of climate change on migration in the Euro-Mediterranean region and neighboring areas. It highlights how factors like droughts and degraded soils in West Africa, the Sahel, and the Maghreb are driving human displacement. By linking climate-induced conflicts to armed violence and subsequent migration, the report stresses the urgency for comprehensive policies to mitigate these challenges and prevent ongoing humanitarian crises.
This event is taking place at Dubai, During COP28, December 3rd.
