1 Executive summary Iraq has begun to feel the brunt of climate change and an increase in climate-related security risks. The country’s vulnerability to climate change is a product of a high degree...
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Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq, April 2023
Iraq is highly exposed to climate change-related extreme weather events. Droughts, floods, heatwaves and dust storms are negatively affecting the environment, agriculture, water availability, health...
Iraq: Country Climate and Development Report (November 2022) [EN/AR]
Climate Change Inaction Threatens Iraq’s Social Stability and Long-Term Economic Development Prospects Baghdad, Nov 9, 2022 – Climate change, in particular increasing water scarcity, could further...
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Iraq ‑ Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #3, Fiscal Year (FY) 2022
SITUATION AT A GLANCE 2.5 MILLION People in Need of Humanitarian Assistance UN – March 2022 961,000: Number of People in Acute Need UN – March 2022 1.2 MILLION: Estimated Number of People Internally...
UNICEF Report – By 2050, every child in Iraq will be exposed to high heatwave frequency [EN/AR/KU]
UNICEF warns urgent action is needed to increase funding for adaptation to protect children, and vulnerable communities from worsening heatwaves and other climate shocks. BAGHDAD, 26 October 2022 --...
Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Iraq
INTRODUCTION Iraq has been named the fifth-most vulnerable country to climate breakdown, affected by soaring temperatures, insufficient and diminishing rainfall3, intensified droughts and water...
Iraq: IDPs in camps face dire conditions as temperature rises [EN/AR]
Geneva - About 1.2 million displaced people in Iraq are living in dire humanitarian conditions in light of the high temperature and the recurrence of sandstorms in the summer, Euro-Med Monitor said...
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Iraq's killer weather
By Chloe Cornish EXETER/KIRKUK, 12 November 2015 (IRIN) - Along with his wife and eight children, Fuad Essa al-Azzawi has been made homeless three times, by war and by weather. The family fled their...
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Iraq Inter-Agency Operational Update – Syrian Refugees in Iraq, August 2015 [EN/AR]
HIGHLIGHTS In the reporting period: 3,151 Syrians entered the KR-I in August through the Peshkabour border and 3,747 individuals returned from the KR-I to Syria. An increase in returns to Syria...
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Iraq Inter-Agency Operational Update – Syrian Refugees in Iraq, July 2015 [EN/AR]
HIGHLIGHTS In the reporting period: 225 Syrian asylum seekers entered the KR-I in July through the Peshkabour border which is open six days a week. UNHCR continues to ensure close monitoring and...
Iraq: More than three million people forced from their homes by conflict
Malteser International: “We have to keep our aid mobile” Erbil/Köln: In the year or so since the mass exodus of Iraqis from Mosul and the Sinjar Mountains, more than three million people in Iraq have...
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Iraq hit by heatwaves, making life for refugees even tougher
KAWERGOSK, Iraq, July 31 (UNHCR) – Sozan and her family have lived in a plastic tent for the past two years. In the winter, the tent's roof and walls protect her and her four children from the...