Prof. Manfred A. Lange, the director of Future Earth Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Center in Cyprus has given a workshop about Global Changes in the Middle East and North Africa and Mitigation-/Adaptation Strategies to the enrolled PhD students in the Environment and Sustainability program provided by the College of Science in the University of Bahrain. such collaboration with MENA Center aims to tackle SDG 13 through dialogue, sharing best practices and comparative approaches.
The workshop mainly discussed the causes and impacts of climate change. Prof. Lange stated that last political and scientific reports have strongly related the rapid rise in temperature to human activities, i.e. rapid population growth and urbanization. He also showed several scenarios of greenhouse emissions and temperature rise based on different modeling approaches. Therefore, the uncontrolled rise in temperature has led to several environmental impacts such as desertification and depletion of water resources, water-energy-food nexus in the region.
Prof. Lange has been through numerous mitigation/adaptation strategies and measures have been proposed and tried. This includes renewable energy for desalination and other domestics activities. However, he stated that we need an increase in awareness of the risks posed by climate change and an ability and willingness to adopt and promote adequate measures and tools. Around 20 Environment and Sustainability PhD students have shared their different ideas and solution for mitigation/adaptation by presenting a brief description of their PhD projects.
http://www.uob.edu.bh/index.php/news/14-latest-news/3288-2019-10-27-04-54-05
