More than half of the Kurdistan Region’s trees have died due to droughts caused by climate change, an advisor to the Region’s President Nechirvan Barzani revealed on Friday. Erbil and Baghdad have good cooperation on climate change, noting that the Iraqi delegation at COP28 has promised to support any project the KRG submits at the conference. Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani has met many world leaders on the sidelines of the event. The Middle East is heating up almost twice as fast as the global average and Iraq is considered one of the nations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, suffering with scorching temperatures, dwindling water resources, and desertification.The KRG is looking to fill gaps in data on the impact of climate change as it takes steps to combat the global threat, a senior advisor to Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Friday. “We are working on having better data on the Kurdistan Region. The data about the whole of Iraq says that it is really in danger - fifth among other countries,” Bayan Sami Abdulrahman, senior advisor to PM Barzani for foreign affairs and climate change, told Rudaw on the sidelines of the COP28 summit.  (ICE AMMAN)

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