International Monetary Fund warns of climate disasters in the Middle East

According to an IRNA report from Reuters on Thursday; “Recent assessments show that environmental disasters in the Middle East are injuring and displacing an average of seven million people annually, killing more than 2,600 people and causing material damage,” said Kristalina Georgieva, CEO of the global lender. At the rate of $ 2 billion.

He added that the list of catastrophes such as droughts in North Africa, Somalia and Iran, epidemics and infestations of locust herds in the Horn of Africa, severe floods in the Caucasus and Central Asia, are rapidly prolonging.

Based on these assessments; Analysis of data from the last century shows a rise in temperature of up to 1.5 degrees Celsius in this region, which is twice the rate of global warming, which was 0.7 degrees.

“Severe weather events usually reduce per capita economic growth by one to two percent a year,” Georgieva added.

According to this information and data, climate change has affected many countries in the world, including Iran; Relief experts believe that overcoming the crisis caused by these changes can be achieved with new equipment and skills.

Climate change has emerged in the form of a period of drought, successive water shortages or droughts, annual rising temperatures, increasing air pollution in large cities, the occurrence of severe and widespread floods and storms, and have unprecedented effects. These climate changes, especially climate change, have made the human environment a more difficult and unhealthy environment.

From the beginning of his presence on earth, man has always struggled with many events and crises; Some of these disasters were self-inflicted; Which is called man-made; Like wars and riots, air pollution and many other forms of man-made crises; One of which continues to claim the lives of thousands of people around the world every day; This is the corona virus; Which spread and became widespread with inappropriate human interference in human societies and has affected the whole world for about two years.

Natural disasters are another form of accident and are called a set of harmful accidents that have no human origin. These events are usually unpredictable, or at least have not been predicted for a long time. Each atmospheric element alone can cause significant disasters such as rising temperatures and heat, high wind speeds and hurricanes, thunderstorms and hail, frost and frost, but most of the life and property losses due to combined atmospheric phenomena and secondary hazards These include storms, lightning, droughts, floods and fires.

Natural disasters are phenomena caused by factors imposed on nature, including air pollution, acid rain, increased carbon dioxide and pollutants in the atmosphere and their greenhouse effects, ozone depletion, which is a category of phenomena due to the mechanism and structure of natural factors such as earthquakes. It also includes floods, droughts, desertification, and onshore seawater.

According to available statistics, three percent of all cities in Iran are in low-risk areas; Out of 43 possible accidents in the whole world, about 32 of them have been experienced in our country, Iran. The most common of these accidents are earthquakes, floods, droughts, land subsidence, agricultural-livestock pests and forest fires. Iran is the sixth most earthquake-prone country and the fourth most flood-prone country in the world, with 10 percent of the world’s natural disaster casualties, accounting for only one percent of the world’s population.