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The brief discusses transboundary climate risks in the MENA region. It highlights governance challenges and calls for improved adaptation financing and regional cooperation, emphasizing the need for international support to enhance resilience.

This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Libya, including how climate change will potentially impact human health and the country’s water resources, clean energy sector, coastal and urban areas, and agricultural productivity.

In recent flood events, dams, it could be said, ‘weaponized’ the floods and turned high river flow into a catastrophic disaster. And as a consequence, climate change has just made a lot more assets uninsurable.

This article covers how Libya and other flood-hit countries, especially in conflict zones, could learn a lot from Pakistan, where the plans for recovery from similar floods in 2022 differ in some significant ways.

The objective of the Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) is to estimate the impact of the storm and floods on physical assets and service delivery in the most affected areas and take stock of the ensuing recovery needs.

The Libya Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) analyses damages and losses – as well as recovery and reconstruction needs – using a globally established methodology across almost all sectors of the Libyan economy.

This seismic risk profile of Libya, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

'Adaptation apartheid' is preventing fragile states from accessing finance to protect their people from global warming.