Climate change could displace millions from Middle East region: report

Climate change could displace millions from Middle East region: report

Several officials have warned that climate change may lead to the displacement of millions of people in the Middle East, with the risk of the expansion of cities harming the environment, and the potential for conflict over resources.

In an interview with Agence France-Presse, the head of the Egyptian Farmers Syndicate, Hussein Abu Saddam, commented on these changes, saying: “Young people migrate from rural areas either abroad, or to large cities to work,” adding that “climatic factors are behind this migration.”

Abu Saddam explained that although “Egypt suffers mainly from its large population and being one of the driest countries in the world, new phenomena related to climate change, such as the emergence of new parasites, make agriculture less profitable than before.”

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees stated that 90 percent of refugees in the world come from regions that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

Deputy Director of the International Organization for Migration, Amy Pope, told AFP if the population cannot provide their food and cultivate the land, they will have mo other opinion but displacement.

Pope said that repeated natural disasters in 2021 pushed three million people to almost leave their homes in Africa and the Middle East,