https://phys.org/news/2023-03-climate-stressed-iraq-million-trees.html
'Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe
impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting
five million palms and trees.
Oil-rich but war-battered Iraq suffers from extreme summer heat, frequent
droughts, desertification and regular dust storms, problems that are all
exacerbated by a heating planet.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told a climate conference that more than
seven million Iraqis had already been affected by climate change and hundreds
of thousands displaced by drought.
He cited challenges including "high temperatures, scarcity of rain and an
increase in dust storms" as well as shrinking green spaces, which all "threaten
food, health, environmental and community security".
Sudani, who took office in late October, said his government was launching "a
grand afforestation initiative, which includes planting five million trees and
palm trees in all governorates of Iraq".
In the spring of last year, Iraq was swept by about a dozen major sand or dust
storms which blanketed Baghdad and other areas, causing breathing difficulties
for thousands and forcing the closure of airports and schools.
Sudani said the government was working on a wider "Iraqi vision for climate
action", speaking at a conference in the southern city of Basra attended by
foreign ambassadors and UN officials.'
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