The Arab region is being pushed to its limits by intense heatwaves and severe droughts, the latest World Meteorological Organization report has found, as it warms at twice the global average.
The study found extreme events last year affected 3.8mn people and led to more than 300 deaths, mainly from heatwaves and floods, in the first such report compiled by UN agencies including the League of Arab States.
The region covering 22 countries — stretching from the Arabian peninsula and the Levant to north Africa and Somalia in the south — experienced an average near-surface temperature rise of 1.08C above the 1991-2020 average and 1.94C above the 1961-1990 baseline.
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