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Climate change in Algeria has wide reaching effects on the country.
Algeria is a low emitter of carbon dioxide: producing 4.1 tons per capita as of 2008, less than the global average at that times. At that time the 74% of their emission came from energy production.
Climate change in Algeria has wide reaching effects on the country. Algeria
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was not a significant contributor to climate change, but like other countries in the MENA region, is expected to among the most affected by climate change impacts. Because a large part of the country is in already hot and arid geographies, including part of the Sahara, already strong heat and water resource
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slightl ...
access challenges are expected to get worse. As early as 2014, scientists
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were attributing extreme heat wave
A heat wave, or heatwave, is a period of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity, especially in oceanic climate countries. While definitions vary, a heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the ...
s to climate change in Algeria. Algeria was ranked 46th of countries in the 2020 Climate Change Performance Index
The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is a scoring system designed by the German environmental and development organisation Germanwatch e.V. to enhance transparency in international climate politics. On the basis of standardised criteria, ...
.
Greenhouse gas emissions
Algeria is a low emitter of carbon dioxide: producing 4.1 tons per capita as of 2008, less than the global average at that times. At that time the 74% of their emission came from energy production.
Impacts on the natural environment
Temperature and weather changes
Water resources
According toWorld Bank
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, Algeria qualifies as a water scarce country
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. Moreover, groundwater is already overexploited.
Impacts on people
Economic impacts
Agriculture
Agricultural land and water is already under pressure from both human activity, and desertification,erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is dis ...
, and vegetation loss. Climate change is expected to speed up this process, weakening soil and biodiversity
Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...
in farmland. Every part of agriculture
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...
in the country is expected to be affected: for example, small scale shepherding which is a common form of agriculture, becomes increasingly expensive as herders have to dig wells and buy feed, rather than use grazing.
Mitigation and adaptation
Policies and legislation
The initial strategy developed by Algeria, as of 2013, focused on four areas: institutional strengthening, adaptation to climate change, mitigation of emissions of GHG and human capacity building. Algeria followed through on its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and has ratified theUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in ...
. However, the 2020 Climate Change Performance Index
The Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) is a scoring system designed by the German environmental and development organisation Germanwatch e.V. to enhance transparency in international climate politics. On the basis of standardised criteria, ...
described their policy approach as not enough to meet the 2° C goal.
References
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