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A serious climate change catastrophe is afflicting North Africa, which is rising more quickly than the rest of the world and is seeing a number of negative effects, including growing water scarcity, desertification, and extreme weather. In arid and desert areas, these shifts are more noticeable, as they suffer from additional environmental stresses, including extreme temperatures, irregular precipitation, elevated sea levels and land subsidence, coastal flooding, shoreline erosion, deteriorating soil salinity, and persistent drought which endangering ecological security and escalating preexisting vulnerabilities. These mutually reinforcing impacts will build on one another, worsening water scarcity, hindering food security, displacing exposed populations, and destabilizing the North African economy. Climate change will therefore exert added pressures on already precarious populations and push still other groups to unprecedented levels of vulnerability. Efforts to adapt to a changing climate will also exact a steep price, exposing existing governance shortfalls and deepening deficits.
