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Four North African Nations Sign Water-Sharing Agreement Plan
Four nations, Chad, Egypt, Libya, and Sudan, have signed a Strategic Action Programme (SAP) over the sharing of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System. The aquifer lies beneath the four nations and is the largest known “fossil” or non-renewable system in the world. According to a press release by the International Atomic Energy Agency: (more…)
No Way Out: Climate Change and Immobility
This is a cross-post of our piece that appeared in the World Policy Blog today
by Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia, and Troy Sternberg
In the 1990s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserted that “climate migrants” would be one of the most dire consequences of climate change. This, at times contentious argument, centers on how climate change acts as a “threat multiplier,” exacerbating existing environmental and social factors that drive migration. (more…)
Watch This Space: Nile Basin – Preventing Water Conflict
![By NASA.Lieven at de.wikipedia[see page for license], from Wikimedia Commons](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Nilevalley_NASA.jpg "Nile Valley")
The Nile Basin has been a hotbed of activity over the last year. In addition to the Arab Spring and South Sudan becoming a recognized state, the nations within the Nile Basin are renegotiating a longstanding water-sharing agreement over use of the Nile’s waters. All of this action creates an opportunity to develop a climate-resilient water-sharing agreement that could help reduce the probability of future water conflicts. (more…)