Iraq’s climate is changing faster than people can adapt. With each passing summer, new records are logged: record high temperatures, record low water levels. Between May and October, the heat scorches all that is dead and sears everything that lives. During the day, the sun forces people inside; in the evening, the heat lingers in cities that feel like the inside of a hair d
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Climate Adaption Key to Iraq’s Stability and Economic Development As water scarcity grows, Iraq’s government needs a comprehensive strategy and action aligned with the realities of climate change. BY: Sarhang Hamasaeed; Mac Skelton; Zmkan Ali Saleem Iraq is projected to be among the five countries hardest hit by the impact of climate change. The country is a
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Cop28 must be a moment for collective action, both in the region and worldwide The garden of Eden is said to have existed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates, in Iraq. Over the past two centuries, foreign adventurers came to marvel at the waterways and marshes immortalised in the Epic of Gilgamesh, with their water buffalo, wild boar, otters, pelicans, flocks of f
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Structural Reforms Key to Meeting Rapidly Growing Population’s Needs With long-overdue financial reforms and an ambitious federal budget, Iraq’s Government continues to forge progress in tackling the challenges it faces, the senior United Nations official in the country told the Security Council today, adding that more efforts are required to address its rapidly growing popu
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Speaking in New York during the UN General Assembly, he tells The National his government is committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Kuwait “Gaining the trust of the people”. That is how Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani described his biggest challenge since assuming office 10 months ago. While economic woes, climate change and threats to secu
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