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Climate Risk Profile: Egypt, Usaid
Climate Risk Profile: Egypt, Usaid
Egypt & Libya
Throughout Egypt’s extensive history, its inhabitants have relied heavily upon the Nile and the productive agricultural sector it nurtures. Modern Egypt has one of the most diversified economies in the Middle East, with robust service, manufacturing, agricultural, and tourism sectors. However, Egypt’s dependence on the Nile River for 95 percent of its freshwater leaves the country vulnerable to climate shocks and transboundary water conflict. Egypt shares land borders with Libya to the West, Israel and the Gaza Strip to the East, and the Sudan to the South. Egypt’s relationship with Ethiopia, home to the source of the majority of the …
Food In An Uncertain Future: The Impacts Of Climate Change On Food Security And Nutrition In The Middle East And North Africa, Guy Jobbins, Giles Henley
Food In An Uncertain Future: The Impacts Of Climate Change On Food Security And Nutrition In The Middle East And North Africa, Guy Jobbins, Giles Henley
Egypt & Libya
This report sets out the risks to food security in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) from climate change, and how these vulnerabilities interact with other key trends and sources of risk, including population growth, urbanisation, and conflict. Focused on the year 2030, this report contributes to a better understanding of how these trends and risks may affect achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Zero Hunger in the MENA region. It highlights some particularly vulnerable groups, and also options for reducing climate risks to food security. Most studies in the region have focused on climate risks to …
Climate Change Information Fact Sheet: Egypt, Usaid
Climate Change Information Fact Sheet: Egypt, Usaid
Egypt & Libya
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Sea Level Rise Impacts; Evaluation And Adaptation On Development Projects In Delta’S Coastal Region In Egypt, Nadia Mohamed Eshra
Sea Level Rise Impacts; Evaluation And Adaptation On Development Projects In Delta’S Coastal Region In Egypt, Nadia Mohamed Eshra
Egypt & Libya
This paper predicts impact of sea level rise (SLR) on the micro-hydropower generation from Idfina barrage and submits a proposal to adapt the negative effect. Idfina barrage was constructed on Rosetta Branch. It is located 18 km far from the Mediterranean Sea, which reserves the sea water to overcome to the Nile River. Three scenarios referred to the discharge, net head and turbine’s level are suggested, taking into consideration cases studies of SLR; (1) Pessimistic case, that consider the sea water level change according to (IPCC) plus the subsidence value, according to CoRI1 (Study1 in Coastal Research institute, CORI), which …
Climate Change Risk Management In Egypt, Mohamed M Nour El-Din
Climate Change Risk Management In Egypt, Mohamed M Nour El-Din
Egypt & Libya
Egypt as an arid country relying on the Nile River which provides 95% of its water resources is suffering water stress due to the limited supplies and growing population, and increased competition on water from the upper Nile basin countries. The uncertain climate change impacts on the Nile flow add another challenge for water management in Egypt. Besides, the projected high temperature would increase the local water demands especially on the agricultural sector. In addition to that, the coastal zones are severely vulnerable to the threats of sea level rise. It is the national level that the most important decisions …
Climate Finance For The Middle East And North Africa: Confronting The Challenges Of Climate Change, Smita Nakhooda, Alice Caravani, Prachi Seth, Liane Schalatek
Climate Finance For The Middle East And North Africa: Confronting The Challenges Of Climate Change, Smita Nakhooda, Alice Caravani, Prachi Seth, Liane Schalatek
Egypt & Libya
This brief considers the scope and objectives of dedicated international public finance directed to the region, drawing on Climate Funds Update data. It finds that most international public climate finance has been directed to a small number of large projects in Egypt and Morocco using concessional loans. These two countries receive 80% of total approved climate finance in the region, largely from the World Bank administered Clean Technology Fund. No climate finance has been directed to the richest fossil fuel exporters in the region such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Although good examples of …
Adaptation Of Sea Level Rise In Nile Delta Due To Climate Change, Ayman F. Batisha
Adaptation Of Sea Level Rise In Nile Delta Due To Climate Change, Ayman F. Batisha
Egypt & Libya
Nile Delta is vulnerable due to the impact of climate change and related sea level rise. Due to low elevation in the Nile delta region, Egypt is considered one of the top five countries expected to be mostly impacted with a 1 m sea level rise resulting from global warming. Egypt is ranked as the fifth in the world concerning the impact on the total urban areas, Egypt’s GDP would be significantly impacted, and Egypt’s natural resources such as coastal zone, water resources, water quality, agricultural land, livestock and fisheries maybe subjected to vulnerability. Also, Egypt may face environmental crises …
Climate Change And Water In The Arab Region Mapping Of Knowledge And Institutions, Guy Jobbins
Climate Change And Water In The Arab Region Mapping Of Knowledge And Institutions, Guy Jobbins
Egypt & Libya
MENA is the most water scarce region in the world, with 16 countries experiencing water scarcity (< 1000 m3 per capita per year) and 12 experiencing absolute water scarcity (< 500 m3 per capita per year). With rapidly growing and urbanising populations, water scarcity is increasing across the region on an annual basis. This situation is already and will be further exacerbated by the impacts of climate change, with consensus opinion indicating mean temperature increases of 4C and mean precipitation reductions reaching -30% across the region by 2100. In addition to changes in means, daily, seasonal, and interannual variability in precipitation is also projected to increase. The physical impacts of climate change are likely to include decreased river flows, increased water scarcity in rainfed areas, decreased recharge of groundwater, increased evapotranspiration, coastal change due to inundation and saltwater intrusion, increased frequency of heat-waves, and the possibility of increased flooding. In Egypt key vulnerabilities are related to future Nile flows, the impacts of sea level rise in the Delta coast, and tensions between plans for expanding agriculture and needs to reduce agricultural water consumption. In Jordan key vulnerabilities relate to reduced Jordan river flows, disproportionate water consumption in irrigated agriculture, impacts on rainfed agriculture, and limited opportunity for water savings efficiencies. The least water scarce country surveyed, Lebanon has vulnerabilities related to the human geography, infrastructural, and institutional legacies of the civil war, with poor water networks, dysfunctional governance systems, and an absence of data. Developing climate projections and assessing physical impacts in MENA is hampered by deficits in long-term data series, the complex interactions between climate, geography and hydrogeology, and the sensitivity of precipitation changes in arid areas. There is a lack of capacity for and rigorous studies of climate vulnerability assessments across the region, particularly in terms of social vulnerability, gender and the impacts of climate change on human health. There is a lack of evidence and experience on adaptation to climate change in the region. There are also capacity gaps on community based adaptation, and adaptation planning, policy, and economics. There are growing national activities in planned adaptation by international donors and state organisations, climate research by academic and government institutions, and climate activism by NGOs. At the regional level activity is less well developed, although dominated by UNDP and the World Bank. Several networks exist on related issues that could be exploited for mainstreaming adaptation in the water sector. There are needs for individual, institutional and regional capacity building and knowledge provision which ACCWAM is well positioned to fulfil, although careful positioning is needed to avoid duplication of efforts. The development of National Communications, National Adaptation Strategies, and updating National Water Strategies appear to the key national policy processes for ACCWAM to engage in.
Coastal Adaptation To Sea Level Rise Along The Nile Delta, Egypt, Y. Eldeberky
Coastal Adaptation To Sea Level Rise Along The Nile Delta, Egypt, Y. Eldeberky
Egypt & Libya
Global warming and climate change processes are expected to raise sea levels. This paper represents a contribution to the efforts of investigating the impact of sea level rise (SLR) on the Nile delta coastal zone and identifies anticipatory and adaptation measures that may be appropriate today in spite of current SLR uncertainties. SLR was calculated by applying the quadratic equation for 10-year intervals using 1980 as the base year. Despite large variation between SLR predictions, the results indicated that SLR is accelerating, with estimated value for the present (21st) century in the order of 0.6 m, although with a margin …
Egypt’S National Strategy For Adaptation To Climate Change And Disaster Risk Reduction, Egypt’S Cabinet Information And Decision Support Centre
Egypt’S National Strategy For Adaptation To Climate Change And Disaster Risk Reduction, Egypt’S Cabinet Information And Decision Support Centre
Egypt & Libya
The main objective of Egypt’s National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction is to increase the flexibility of the Egyptian community when dealing with the risks and disasters that might be caused by climate change and its impact on different sectors and activities. It also aims at strengthening the capacity to absorb and reduce the risks and disasters to be caused by such changes. In essence, the strategy adopts accommodation and protection as the two basic means of defence, taking into consideration systematic retreat based upon predefined plans, in case the coastal zones are exposed to …
North African Coastal Cities Address Natural Disasters And Climate Change, The World Bank
North African Coastal Cities Address Natural Disasters And Climate Change, The World Bank
Egypt & Libya
North Africa’s coastal cities, long benefitting from their ready access to commerce and culture, also face distinct vulnerabilities due to their location. Natural hazards and extreme weather patterns impose risks on coastal areas that inland areas seldom encounter. North Africa’s increasingly populous cities face tangible risks today, but these will be amplified as the impacts of global climate change further manifest themselves over the decades to come. To better understand both the risks that these cities face by the 2030 time horizon, and to help prepare the required adaptive responses, the World Bank has conducted a regional study focused on …
Environmental And Climate Change Policy Brief - Mena, Gunilla Olund Wingqvist, Olof Drakenberg
Environmental And Climate Change Policy Brief - Mena, Gunilla Olund Wingqvist, Olof Drakenberg
Egypt & Libya
This Environment and Climate Change Policy Brief aims to summarise the key environmental problems and opportunities for the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region, related to poverty reduction and economic development and the Swedish government’s thematic priority Environment and Climate which includes four focus areas; (i) climate change adaptation, (ii) energy, (iii) environment and security, and (iv) water. Together with the Water Concept Note2, this Policy Brief is aimed at giving input to the process of developing a new Swedish Cooperation Strategy for the MENA region.
Climate Change Adaptation In The Middle East And North Africa: Challenges And Opportunities, Jeannie Sowers, Erika Weinthal
Climate Change Adaptation In The Middle East And North Africa: Challenges And Opportunities, Jeannie Sowers, Erika Weinthal
Egypt & Libya
The impacts of human-induced climate change are often considered a future prospect, yet in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), indications of a changing climate are clearly evident. Most of the predicted outcomes associated with international climate models are already occurring in the region, compounding existing problems of water scarcity, water pollution, desertification, salinization, and sea-level rise. Since most of the MENA region is arid and hyperarid, small changes in water availability and arable land have significant consequences for human security. Thus, “if mitigation is about energy, adaptation is about water” (Clausen and Berg 2010). Particularly through effects on …
Impact Of Sea Level Rise On The Arab Region, Mohamed El Raey
Impact Of Sea Level Rise On The Arab Region, Mohamed El Raey
Egypt & Libya
A survey has been carried out basic findings of global warming and its implications to the coastal zone with particular emphasis on sea level rise. The vulnerability of the Arab countries to potential impacts of sea level rise and frequency of extreme events has been considered. It was well recognized that many locations in the Arab region are highly vulnerable to the potential impacts of sea level rise, salt water intrusion and increase of frequency and severity of storm surges. In addition it was also well recognized that the population at large and stakeholders and decision makers in particular are …
Environment In Jeopardy: Consequences Of Climate Change In Egypt, Mohamed Saber
Environment In Jeopardy: Consequences Of Climate Change In Egypt, Mohamed Saber
Egypt & Libya
Egypt is at risk to the possessions of global warming and potentially facing "catastrophic" consequences in sea level rise (SLR), water scarcity, agriculture and food insufficiency, loss of biodiversity and habitats and new pressures on human health and national economy. To confront these adverse impacts, the Prime Minister re-established in 2007 a National Climate Change Committee consists of scientists and experts from different ministries and relevant bodies responsible to manage climate in Egypt and to set a strategy to adapt to potential global changes.
Climate Change In The Mena Region: Effects On Water And Agriculture, Shawki Barghouti
Climate Change In The Mena Region: Effects On Water And Agriculture, Shawki Barghouti
Egypt & Libya
Climate Change (CC) -any long-term significant change in the expected patterns of average weather over time. CC results from many factors including: dynamic processes of the earth itself, human activities. Mechanisms attributed to the recent CC are: increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, changes to land surface, such as deforestation, increasing atmospheric concentrations of aerosols. GHGs emissions now stand at 385 ppm, shot past the safe level of 350 ppm
Preparing For Climate Change: Recognising Early Impacts Through Perceptions Of Dive Tourists And Dive Operators In The Egyptian Red Sea, N. A. Marshall, P. A. Marshall, A. Abdulla, A. Rouphael, A. Ali
Preparing For Climate Change: Recognising Early Impacts Through Perceptions Of Dive Tourists And Dive Operators In The Egyptian Red Sea, N. A. Marshall, P. A. Marshall, A. Abdulla, A. Rouphael, A. Ali
Egypt & Libya
Tourism generates important economic activity globally and is a major source of foreign exchange income in many countries. Yet, climate change has the potential to permanently alter the attraction and value of many tourism destinations and substantially impact the income streams and social benefits derived from tourism. These impacts can be minimised if tourism operators, sectors and tourismdependent communities understand their vulnerability to climate change, and take steps to adapt to predicted changes. Some of the more immediate and manageable changes are likely to result from changes in awareness and attitudes among tourists, and these factors are major drivers of …
Climate Change: The Impacts Of Sea Level Rise On Egypt, H. Elsharkawy, H. Rashed, I. Rached
Climate Change: The Impacts Of Sea Level Rise On Egypt, H. Elsharkawy, H. Rashed, I. Rached
Egypt & Libya
Sea level changes are caused by several natural phenomenon; the three primary contributing ones are: ocean thermal expansion, glacial melt from Greenland and Antarctica - in addition to a smaller contribution from other ice sheets- and change in terrestrial storage. Among those, ocean thermal expansion has been expected to be the dominating factor behind the rise in sea level. However, new data on rates of deglaciation in Greenland and Antarctica suggest greater significance for glacial melt, and a possible revision of the upperbound estimate for sea level rise (SLR) in this century (Dasgupta, et al., 2007). It is predicted that, …
Climate Change Adaptation In The Water Sector In The Middle East And North Africa: A Review Of Main Issues, Gael Gregoire
Climate Change Adaptation In The Water Sector In The Middle East And North Africa: A Review Of Main Issues, Gael Gregoire
Egypt & Libya
Fresh water is a vital, finite2 and vulnerable resource. In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region3, fresh water stress and shortages are becoming a serious threat to economic growth, social cohesion and political stability. Fresh water, which is being used in an uncontrolled and unsustainable fashion, is unfortunately not planned on the basis of its present and future availability but rather is based on sectoral and geographical competing consumption needs. This will increasingly penalize certain economic activities and services, which will in turn disproportionately affect the poor. Moreover, despite important strides in curbing demographic growth …
Water, Energy And Climate Change Nexus For Egypt, Adel Beshara
Water, Energy And Climate Change Nexus For Egypt, Adel Beshara
Egypt & Libya
Evaluating Egypt’s future energy needs for water production and mobilisation and water needs for energy production until 2050, while taking into consideration the “climate change” factor. Identifying the existing gaps in related data and information that is hindering the adequate evaluation of present and future water and energy needs. Estimate required investments to supply energy and water needs until 2050 (without and with taking the impacts of climate change into account). Starting the establishment of a “knowledge platform” on this issue in the SEMCs to initiate information, experience and awareness sharing. Drawing the attention to and developing a roadmap for …
Climate Change: Alexandria - Egypt, Krishna B. Khatri, Peter Van Der Steen, Kala Vairavamoorthy
Climate Change: Alexandria - Egypt, Krishna B. Khatri, Peter Van Der Steen, Kala Vairavamoorthy
Egypt & Libya
Climatically, Alexandria is a semi-desert, characterized by hot dry summers, moderate winters and very little rainfall. It has only two seasons: a mild winter from November to April and a hot summer from May to October. The difference between the seasons is variations in daytime temperature and changes in prevailing wind. Average annual temperature ranges between minimum of 14˚C in winter and maximum of 30˚C in summer. The average annual temperature increases moving southward from the Delta to the Sudanese border, where temperature variation are similar to those of the open deserts. Alexandria is a one of the wettest area …
Development And Climate Change In Egypt: Focus On Coastal Resources And The Nile, Shardul Agrawala, Annett Moehner, Mohamed El Raey, Declan Conway, Maarten Van Aalst, Marca Hagenstad, Joel Smith
Development And Climate Change In Egypt: Focus On Coastal Resources And The Nile, Shardul Agrawala, Annett Moehner, Mohamed El Raey, Declan Conway, Maarten Van Aalst, Marca Hagenstad, Joel Smith
Egypt & Libya
This report presents the integrated case study for Egypt carried out under an OECD project on Development and Climate Change. The report is structured around a three-tiered framework. First, recent climate trends and climate change scenarios for Egypt are assessed and key sectoral impacts are identified and ranked along multiple indicators to establish priorities for adaptation. Second, donor portfolios are analyzed to examine the proportion of development assistance activities affected by climate risks. A desk analysis of donor strategies and project documents as well as national plans is conducted to assess the degree of attention to climate change concerns in …
The Arab Republic Of Egypt: Initial National Communication On Climate Change, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
The Arab Republic Of Egypt: Initial National Communication On Climate Change, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
Egypt & Libya
Although Egypt’s contribution to Green House Gases is relatively minimal, yet given Egypt’s growing population, its limited fertile land, and its large area of desert, and the concentration of its economic activities in the coastal zones, the potential social and economic impact of climate change could be devastating for the country’s future.
Vulnerability Assessment Of Water Resources In Egypt To Climatic Change In The Nile Ba, Kenneth M. Strzepek, David N. Yates, Dia El Din El Quosy
Vulnerability Assessment Of Water Resources In Egypt To Climatic Change In The Nile Ba, Kenneth M. Strzepek, David N. Yates, Dia El Din El Quosy
Egypt & Libya
: The impacts of global climate change on the water resources of the Nile River Basin were evaluated using simulation models. Four climate change scenarios were evaluated (baseline, GISS, GFDL, and UKMO). The complete impact of climatic changes in the Nile cannot be fully predicted with confidence, as some models forecast increased flows, while others project significant decreases. How ever, it was observed that the Nile River flow is extremely sensitive to ambient temperature and pre cipitation changes, and it is possible that the effects of climatic fluctuations would be severe. Several water management options were identified to help adapt …