Somalia: UN Security Council Makes ‘Historic’ Warning on Climate Threat to Somalia

Mar 28, 2018 | Zak Derler, Climate Change News
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The United Nations Security Council has formally recognised climate change as a destabilising factor in Somalia. In a resolution adopted on Tuesday as part of a renewed mandate for assistance and peacekeeping in the country, the council noted “the adverse effects of climate change, ecological changes and natural disasters among other factors on the stability of Somalia, including through drought, desertification, land degradation, and food insecurity”.