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HOW DO WE COMPREHEND CLIMATE

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Food Security

Water Scarcity

Inefficient Use of Energy

Lack of Diversification, and Fragile Growth

Unemployment and Poverty

Coastal Erosion and Salination of lowlands

Extreme Weather and population mobility

Intensifier 1: The Demographic Factor As populations

grow, development challenges are intensified

Intensifier 2: Climate Change. As temperatures

increase, precipitation decreases, and sea-levels rise,

development challenges are intensified

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Investment and Technology Transfer

Diversification

Support traditional agriculture and knowledge

Efficient use of energy

Renewables and leading in new markets

Access to funding for development

Address long-standing dev. priorities

Catalyst: As responses to climate change influence

global markets and international relations, opportunities

for development will emerge at an accelerating pace…

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Climate resilience and sustainable human

development

Opportunities:

-renewables and new markets

-funding for development

-diversification

-addressing long- standing challenges…

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This is the Arab Climate Resilience Initiative

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ADEREE Morocco INRA France France

Arabian Gulf University Bahrain Kassar International France

Bureau Veritas France Lafarge Ciments France

EcoSecurities Ireland Maroc Energies Renouvelables France/Morocco

Ecovegetal France NASA Jet Propulsions Laboratory USA

Federal Inst. for Geosciences and

Natural Resources

Germany OASIS Project France

HOLCIM Morocco Royal Haskoning Netherlands

ICARDA Syria Sahara Wind Morocco

IEA Morocco SEEE Morocco

Inov Engineering Morocco

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