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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Nov 14, 2021 10:17 pm

Humanity Betrayed

World leaders ‘betrayed ’ with weak climate deal: Amnesty

Global climate talks wrapped up in Glasgow on Saturday with nearly 200 nations reaching what the head of the United Nations called a “compromise” deal with watered-down language on coal and fossil fuels. Amnesty International said world leaders “catastrophically betrayed humanity” by caving into the interests of corporations.

The COP26 final deal is “an important step, but it’s not enough,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “We must accelerate climate action to keep alive the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. It’s time to go into emergency mode.”

Guterres said the world must end fossil fuel subsidies, phase out coal, put a price on carbon, and protect vulnerable communities while making good on pledges of $100 billion in funding for developing nations - goals that he said were not achieved at the Glasgow conference.

    The #COP26 outcome is a compromise, reflecting the interests, contradictions & state of political will in the world today.

    It's an important step, but it's not enough.
    It's time to go into emergency mode.

    The climate battle is the fight of our lives & that fight must be won. pic.twitter.com/NluZWgOJ9p
    — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 13, 2021
The final text agreed on at COP26 includes a last minute revision proposed by India to soften language around coal, calling on nations to escalate efforts to “phase down” the use of coal, rather than “phase out.”

COP26 President Alok Sharma described the deal as a “fragile win.”

“We have kept 1.5 alive,” he said, referring to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. “But I would still say that the pulse of 1.5 is weak.”

Summing up the two week conference, climate activist Greta Thurnberg tweeted: “The COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah. But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up, ever.”

Amnesty International said world leaders failed in their duty to protect humanity.

“Their failure to commit to maintaining the global temperature rise at 1.5°C will condemn more than half a billion people, mostly in the global south, to insufficient water and hundreds of millions of people to extreme heatwaves,” said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard.

“Despite this disastrous scenario, wealthy countries have failed to commit money towards compensating communities suffering loss and damage as a result of climate change. Neither have they committed to providing climate finance to developing countries primarily as grants, a decision that threatens poorer countries - the least equipped to cope with the climate crisis - with unsustainable levels of debt,” she added.

Advanced economies agreed to mobilize $100 billion per year for the Green Climate Fund to provide assistance for developing nations adapting to the effects of climate change, but have failed to do so. The final COP26 agreement expressed “deep regret” that the funding goal had not been met.

Iraq, the fifth most vulnerable nation to the effects of climate change, is hoping to access $10 billion over 10 years from the Green Climate Fund.

Iraq’s acting Environment Minister Jassim al-Falahi told Rudaw Baghdad is working to decrease its financial dependence on fossil fuels and “diversify the sources of the Iraqi economy and not rely on crude oil as a main source of the economy.”

Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said on Saturday that exploration is underway at four oil fields in Anbar province, state media reported. The ministry is also hoping to attract international interest as it “expedites the development of Akaz gas field in the western desert of Anbar governorate,” according to a statement.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Nov 16, 2021 4:18 am

Many loopholes in COP26 pact

Greta Thunberg has said the eventual agreement struck at COP26 was "very vague" with many loopholes

The 18-year-old - who came to Glasgow for the summit - said it only succeeded in "watering down the blah blah blah."

Countries agreed to "phase down" rather than "phase out" coal after India and China led opposition to the commitment in earlier negotiation drafts.

After 15 days of talks, COP26 President Alok Sharma said he was "deeply sorry" for how events had unfolded.

The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first ever climate deal to explicitly plan to reduce coal, the worst fossil fuel for greenhouse gases.

The deal also presses for more urgent emission cuts and promises more money for developing countries - to help them adapt to climate impacts.

But the pledges do not go far enough to limit temperature rise to 1.5C.

'Very, very vague'

Ms Thunberg said that the "small progress" made could demonstrate a "losing" fight against the climate crisis, since time is a major factor.

She told BBC Scotland News: "I have to say unfortunately it turned out just the way I and many others had expected, they even succeeded at watering down the blah, blah, blah which is quite an achievement." There is still no guarantee that we will reach the Paris Agreement.

"You can still interpret it [the Glasgow pact] in many different ways - we can still expand fossil fuel infrastructure, we can increase the global emissions. It's very, very vague."

Greta Thunberg says conferences like COP26 maintain the status quo of countries taking part

The Swedish activist joined thousands of young people - including striking school pupils - for a march through the city on 5 November.

She addressed the crowd when it arrived in George Square, saying "immediate and drastic" cuts to emissions were needed.

The protest was organised by Fridays for Future Scotland - part of an international network of young climate activists inspired by Ms Thunberg.

Activists from several other countries, including Vanessa Nakate from Uganda, also gave speeches about how climate change is already affecting their homelands.

Previously Greta Thunberg has called the climate summit a "failure" and a "PR exercise".

She has also criticised goals for cutting emissions which cause global warming, saying: "We don't just need goals for just 2030 or 2050. We, above all, need them for 2020 and every following month and year to come."

However, Ms Thunberg has so far avoided getting into the detail of what action should be taken, saying "it is nothing to do with me".

Asked if she had dismissed the conference before it had begun, she said that was how some people had "interpreted" her words - but added "of course, we need these conferences".

She continued: "It's a democratic process that is absolutely necessary for us to make progress - but they cannot be the way they are now.

"As long as there is no real massive pressure from the outside then politicians unfortunately will most likely get away with continuing like now.

"It feels like today COP is not really challenging the structures of today - it's mostly maintaining status quo. It's like we are trying to solve a problem with the methods that got us into this in the first place."

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he hoped the world would "look back on COP26 in Glasgow as the beginning of the end of climate change".

However, Mr Sharma was visibly emotional as he confirmed the agreement had been reached with last-minute changes to the wording.

Now back in Sweden, Ms Thunberg said she would not like to be in his shoes - and said that although China and India had disagreed with terms on coal, there were "many villains".

She said that people inside negotiations had told her "lots of different stories".

"When we talk about climate policy we have to include the aspect of equity," she said. "It is wrong that some countries do not want to take action.

"But we have to understand that when the so-called global north refuses to take the leadership role and still refuses to deliver on the loss and damage on the promised yearly $100bn to the most vulnerable countries - the least responsible countries - of course that creates lots of tension.

"We must also remember it was not just one or two countries, there were several countries blocking several negotiations."

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:45 pm

US and China nuclear arsenals talks

US President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The development is the first sign that the two sides have reached agreement on easing tensions over serious security issues

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping have agreed to hold talks aimed at reducing tensions, as US anxiety grows at China’s expanding nuclear arsenal and its recent test of a hypersonic weapon.

Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, said the US and Chinese presidents had discussed the need for nuclear “strategic stability” talks in their virtual meeting on Monday. China has previously refused to hold nuclear talks, partly because the US has a much larger weapons arsenal.

“The two leaders agreed that we would look to begin to carry forward discussions on strategic stability,” Sullivan told an audience at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

The two sides did not decide on a format for the talks and the US wants to see if China will follow through on the pledge from Xi. The Chinese Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The development is the first sign that the two sides have reached agreement on easing tensions over serious security issues. It comes against a backdrop of the worst relations between the US and China since the two countries normalised diplomatic ties in 1979.

In the more than three-hour meeting on Monday, Biden stressed that the two countries needed to create “guardrails” to ensure that their competition “does not veer into conflict”. Xi said they needed to avoid derailing US-China relations.

The Pentagon last week said that China planned to more than quadruple its stockpile to at least 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. The US has about 3,800. It said that China was building hundreds of silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles and had a nascent “nuclear triad” — the ability to launch nuclear missiles from land, sea and air — after deploying a nuclear bomber.

The US defence department also said China was changing its nuclear posture in ways that suggested that it was shifting away from “minimum deterrence” — a policy intended to ensure it had just enough weapons to retaliate against an enemy strike — after five decades.

Last month the Financial Times reported that China in July tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic weapon that can orbit the earth. General Mark Milley, chair of the US joint chiefs of staff, said the test was close to a “Sputnik moment”, in a reference to the Soviet Union putting a satellite into space in 1957.

Asked about China’s rapid nuclear expansion, which has become more apparent over the past year, and the hypersonic missile test, Sullivan said the issues “matter profoundly for America’s national security”.

“President Biden did raise with President Xi the need for a strategic stability set of conversations . . . that needs to be guided by the leaders and led by senior empowered teams on both sides that cut across security, technology and diplomacy,” Sullivan said.

The national security adviser added that the talks with China would not be at the same level as the “strategic stability dialogue” that the US holds with Russia, which has the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, and with which the US has held decades of arms-control negotiations.

“There’s less maturity to [the nuclear aspect] in the US-China relationship, but the two leaders did discuss these issues. And it is now incumbent on us to think about the most productive way to carry it forward from here,” Sullivan said.

While the leaders made progress on the nuclear issue, there was no sign of any easing of tensions over Taiwan. Biden said he supported the “one China” policy, in which Washington recognises Beijing as the sole seat of government of China, but voiced concern about Chinese military activity near the island.

Xi warned him that anyone who supported advocates of Taiwanese independence was “playing with fire” and would “burn themselves”.

Some experts think Beijing is expanding its arsenal to neutralise Washington’s ability to threaten China with nuclear weapons, which would make it easier for the Chinese military to beat the US in a non-nuclear conflict over Taiwan.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Nov 18, 2021 11:12 pm

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World leaders betrayed humanity

Global climate talks wrapped up in Glasgow on Saturday with nearly 200 nations reaching what the head of the United Nations called a “compromise” deal with watered-down language on coal and fossil fuels. Amnesty International said world leaders “catastrophically betrayed humanity” by caving into the interests of corporations

The COP26 final deal is “an important step, but it’s not enough,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “We must accelerate climate action to keep alive the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. It’s time to go into emergency mode.”

Guterres said the world must end fossil fuel subsidies, phase out coal, put a price on carbon, and protect vulnerable communities while making good on pledges of $100 billion in funding for developing nations - goals that he said were not achieved at the Glasgow conference.

    The #COP26 outcome is a compromise, reflecting the interests, contradictions & state of political will in the world today.

    It's an important step, but it's not enough.
    It's time to go into emergency mode.

    The climate battle is the fight of our lives & that fight must be won. pic.twitter.com/NluZWgOJ9p
    — António Guterres (@antonioguterres) November 13, 2021
The final text agreed on at COP26 includes a last minute revision proposed by India to soften language around coal, calling on nations to escalate efforts to “phase down” the use of coal, rather than “phase out.”

COP26 President Alok Sharma described the deal as a “fragile win.”

“We have kept 1.5 alive,” he said, referring to the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. “But I would still say that the pulse of 1.5 is weak.”

Summing up the two week conference, climate activist Greta Thurnberg tweeted: “The COP26 is over. Here’s a brief summary: Blah, blah, blah. But the real work continues outside these halls. And we will never give up, ever.”

    Amnesty International said world leaders failed in their duty to protect humanity
“Their failure to commit to maintaining the global temperature rise at 1.5°C will condemn more than half a billion people, mostly in the global south, to insufficient water and hundreds of millions of people to extreme heatwaves,” said Amnesty’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard.
“Despite this disastrous scenario, wealthy countries have failed to commit money towards compensating communities suffering loss and damage as a result of climate change. Neither have they committed to providing climate finance to developing countries primarily as grants, a decision that threatens poorer countries - the least equipped to cope with the climate crisis - with unsustainable levels of debt,” she added.

Advanced economies agreed to mobilize $100 billion per year for the Green Climate Fund to provide assistance for developing nations adapting to the effects of climate change, but have failed to do so. The final COP26 agreement expressed “deep regret” that the funding goal had not been met.

Iraq, the fifth most vulnerable nation to the effects of climate change, is hoping to access $10 billion over 10 years from the Green Climate Fund.

Iraq’s acting Environment Minister Jassim al-Falahi told Rudaw Baghdad is working to decrease its financial dependence on fossil fuels and “diversify the sources of the Iraqi economy and not rely on crude oil as a main source of the economy.”

Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar Ismail said on Saturday that exploration is underway at four oil fields in Anbar province, state media reported. The ministry is also hoping to attract international interest as it “expedites the development of Akaz gas field in the western desert of Anbar governorate,” according to a statement.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Nov 19, 2021 6:52 pm

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KRG PM Barzani attends security forum

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani is attending a Middle East security forum in Bahrain where Iran’s regional activities is a main topic on the agenda

Barzani tweeted Friday he is attending the forum to “speak to world leaders on security challenges in the Middle East and cooperation to promote peace and stability in the region.” His deputy chief of staff, Aziz Ahmad, said there are three regional challenges the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegation wants to discuss: terrorism, renewable energy, and food security.

Put on by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), this year’s edition of the annual Manama Dialogue has brought together more than 300 delegates from over 40 countries, including ministers, national security advisors, and intelligence chiefs, IISS director-general John Chipman said in his opening remarks on Friday.

“The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq attending such a great conference, attended by great powers, shows that Kurdistan in particular and Iraq in general have a significant importance and are part of the security issues in the region,” Peshmerga Minister Shorsh Ismail told Rudaw’s Sangar Abdulrahman in Manama.

Three security trends will be a focus of the forum, Chipman explained in his opening remarks. The first is “intervention fatigue” as many states grow tired of military intervention, he said, pointing to Afghanistan, Mali, and Yemen where foreign states are scaling back their activities, but warned terrorist activity could increase as a result.

One country that is not suffering from intervention fatigue, he said, is Iran, “whose well-maintained international influence networks remain capable of affecting political outcomes in several countries in which they operate.”

“How deterrence and defence postures can shape strategic perceptions in Iran is a subject that will naturally be central to our reflections this weekend,” said Chipman.

In Iraq, parties affiliated with pro-Iran militias have rejected the results of last month’s parliamentary election in which they did poorly and their supporters have protested in Baghdad demanding the results be voided. The militias are blamed for an attack on the resident of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi that security forces called an assassination attempt.

Tensions between Iran and Western powers are high ahead of talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal that are scheduled to resume in Vienna on November 29 after a five-month hiatus.

Speaking this week at the Middle East Peace and Security Forum in Duhok, Barzani said non-interference is a more important issue regionally than nuclear proliferation and the nuclear deal with Iran. “In order for the region to feel safer, and from the talks that we’ve had with many of the regional leaders, we need to have a better system and better relations on the basis of mutual respect and non-interference,” he said.

The two other trends the Manama Dialogue will follow are a shift away from large security coalitions to “mini-lateral arrangements” and growing importance of the Indo-Pacific region, said Chipman.

In Bahrain, Barzani on Friday met with UK National Security Advisor Stephen Lovegrove and said he hopes for “more cooperation between our nations.” He is also expected to meet with Bahraini authorities, Safeen Dizayee, head of the KRG’s department of foreign relations, told Rudaw.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Nov 19, 2021 7:16 pm

Dry riverbed in central Iran

Thousands of Iranians gathered in a dried up riverbed in the central city of Isfahan to protest mismanagement of water resources, state media reported

Farmers and their supporters carried signs reading “Where is my Zayandeh River?” as they stood on the cracked ground where the Zayandehrood River once flowed, next to the famous Khaju bridge. The river, the largest river in Iran’s central plateau, has largely disappeared for the past two decades because of drought and diversion of water to industry and farming upstream.

The protests began more than a week ago but swelled on Friday as people joined from across the province.

The livelihood of farmers in the province has been “severely affected” by lack of water in the river, state media reported. The farmers complained that the government has not responded to their situation.

First Vice President Mohamad Mokhber instructed the ministries of energy and agriculture to take immediate steps to deal with the issue in Isfahan and provinces upstream, state TV reported.

Iranians gather during a protest to voice their anger after their province's lifeblood river dried up due to drought and diversion, in the central city of Isfahan, on November 19, 2021. Photo: Fatmeh Nasr/ISNA/AFP

President Ebrahim Raisi met with environmental activists in Tehran on Friday, telling them that the most frequent demand he hears from the people is for water and that water management must be prioritized.

In the summer, protests over water shortages in southern Khuzestan turned deadly and several people were killed in a crackdown by security forces.

Iran sought to be agriculturally self-sufficient after the 1979 revolution but its intensive agriculture, coupled with years of drought, has heavily depleted aquifers. The government has turned to the costly process of desalination to provide drinking water in the south and in the north it has built dams and tunnels on its rivers.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Nov 23, 2021 11:10 pm

April 2022 largest UK protest ever

Extinction Rebellion plans 'largest act of civil resistance in UK history' next April

Extinction Rebellion has pledged to mobilise two million protestors to launch what it says will be 'the largest act of civil resistance in UK history' in April next year.

The environmental campaign group made the pledge today after criticising this month's climate summit, claiming it did not go far enough to tackle the crisis.

The group said that the number of activists taking part in their demonstrations had dwindled during the pandemic but that they hoped to rely on record numbers in 2022.

In a video which draws on images of the Suffragettes, Ghandi and Martin Luther King, XR spokesperson Nuala Gathercole Lam calls for action and says: 'When millions of people come together to demand change, governments have no choice but to act.

'This is what’s needed now. Let’s do what works – prolonged, disruptive, non-violent civil resistance.'

Citing research carried out at Harvard University, XR says that movements which achieved 'active engagement' of at least 3.5 per cent of the population have 'never failed to bring about significant social and political change'.

The group says that 3.5 per cent of the UK population equates to 2.3 million people and has set itself the target of recruiting those people for its campaign in 2022.

XR believes if they hit this target then their protests in April next year will be 'the largest act of civil resistance in UK history' as it issued an appeal for people to join its cause.

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Extinction Rebellion has promised to bring about 'the largest act of civil resistance in UK history' in 2022 as it called for new members to join their cause. The group said it hoped to build on their disruptive protests of 2019 but on a larger scale to bring about change

Protester Diana Warner glued her hand to a train as demonstrators blocked traffic at Canary Wharf Station during the Extinction Rebellion protest in London, Britain April 25, 2019

Group spokesman Nuala Gathercole Lam added: 'While our mass participation campaigns of 2019 played a significant role in driving forward the recognition of the climate and ecological crisis, XR's actions have not yet brought about the real action on the part of government needed to reduce emissions and restore biodiversity.

'That's why in 2022 we will be working to grow our numbers and developing designs for civil resistance campaigns, the first of which will take place in April 2022.

'Our mobilisation program will continue to build numbers through the year with the aim of achieving XR's three demands.

'The failure of COP26, and indeed the COP process generally, is devastating but not surprising – it is clearer than ever now that it's up to all of us.'

Starting from Monday April 15, 2019, Extinction Rebellion organised several disruptive demonstrations in London targeting popular areas including Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge.

As well as disrupting commuters on the roads, activists caused severe delays on the transport network by gluing themselves to trains.

The April demonstrations, which also saw the group target Heathrow airport, resulted in more than 1,000 people arrested and the disruption was to continue throughout the year.

In October 2019, XR launched a two-week series of actions they called "International Rebellion" which took place in 60 cities worldwide.

In London, this included protests which saw several thousand people shut down parts of Westminster, blocking Whitehall, the Mall, Westminster Bridge, Lambeth Bridge, Trafalgar Square, Downing Street and Victoria Embankment.

They also used a fire engine to spray fake blood onto and around the Treasury.

In a statement issued today, XR said the onset of the pandemic forced the movement towards 'smaller, more targeted' actions but that next year was the time for the group to 'return to its roots'.

XR said the large-scale action is a direct response to the failure of the Cop process.

The group says it is hoping to 'return to its roots' and bring back the level of disruption seen in 2019. Pictured: XR protestors demonstrate outside the Treasury building in London

The statement said Cop26 'failed to heed the calls from experts' for 'immediate, rapid, global wide-ranging' emissions decline and said the summit left 'the human race continuing to invest in our own extinction'.

The group is now planning to recruit more than two million people in the UK to join its cause.

XR says it will be 'rolling out a nationwide program of door to door canvassing, talks, trainings and mass participation civil disobedience campaigns'.

Gathercole Lam added: 'For real progress to be made in future climate talks, one of the major polluting nations must step up and break the deadlock.

'The theory behind Extinction Rebellion is that mass participation in civil disobedience – on the doorstep of the government, media and elites – is our best shot at creating the political conditions for the UK to step up and play that role.'

As part of its appeal for supporters, the group has also launched a £500,000 fundraiser asking for donations that will be used to help carry out their demonstrations next year.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Nov 25, 2021 12:56 am

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Iraq running out of water

The World Bank warned on Wednesday that Iraq is running out of water and this will have a devastating impact on employment and the economy

“By 2050, a temperature increase of 1 degree Celsius, and a precipitation decrease of 10% would cause a 20% reduction of available freshwater. Under these circumstances, nearly one-third of the irrigated land in Iraq will have no water by the year 2050,” read a World Bank report on Iraq’s economy.

Titled “The Slippery Road to Economic Recovery,” the report said that Iraq’s economic outlook has improved with higher oil prices and GDP is projected to grow by over six percent by 2023, but “without accelerated economic reform, unforeseen domestic and fiscal risks could cause reverses,” it warned.

A failure to manage water resources would be one factor damaging the economy, it stated. A 20 percent reduction in available freshwater would mean higher unemployment: “demand for unskilled labor in agricultural activities could drop by 11.8% and in non-agricultural activities by 5.4%” and GDP “could drop by up to 4 percent, or US$6.6 billion compared to 2016 levels.”

This past year was a very dry one and farmers across the country saw their crops wither and yields drop. The agriculture ministry said last month that the government has approved a plan to reduce this year’s winter crops in irrigated areas by 50 percent because of lack of water.

Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable nation in the world to the effects of climate change, including water and food insecurity. Low rainfall levels and high temperatures caused by climate change are depleting water supplies across the country. Much of Iraq’s agricultural lands depend on irrigation, and dams and reservoirs were at record-low levels this summer.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Dec 08, 2021 12:34 am

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Water ministry advances taking Iran to court

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - In the latest stark warning of the threats a heating climate poses to the country, a report by Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources last week predicted that unless urgent action is taken to combat both declining water levels and climate change, Iraq’s two main rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris, will be entirely dry by 2040

On Saturday, in what has been perceived as a weak attempt to get a grip on the former factor, the water ministry announced the completion of procedures to file a lawsuit with the International Court of Justice against Iran, having proposed the idea in October over the country’s water policy towards Iraq.

"The ministry of water resources has submitted a letter to the foreign ministry and the cabinet, and completed all technical and legal procedures for the lawsuit," Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Mahdi Rashid al-Hamdani told Al-Hurra, adding that the decision to take matters further is now up to the foreign ministry and the Iraqi government.

Officials have warned for years that dams built by Iran - as well as Turkey - have contributed to a growing water crisis in the southern and central provinces of Iraq and the northern Kurdistan Region. Iran has built around 600 dams in the country in the last 30 years; cutting or diverting river courses from its territory into Iraq.

According to a report by the Washington DC-based Fikra Institute, failed international cooperation and an increase in dam construction is not only threatening Iraq's external security, but the increased water shortages “have the potential to inflame disagreements between the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Iraqi Federal Government in Baghdad,” citing the example of previous budget disputes with Iraq’s central government leading the KRG to deprive downstream Shia-led districts of water and warning against focusing solely on regional damming as a solution to water scarcity.

Earlier this year, al-Hamdani accused Iran of digging tunnels and trying to alter the natural water flows. The lawsuit would seek to guarantee the country’s right to shared water resources, although critics suggest that it is unlikely to be taken any further by Iraq’s foreign ministry and current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who are keen to avoid flaring tensions with Iran.

Speaking to Rudaw English, environmental expert and founder of Nature Iraq, Azzam Alwash called the lawsuit “a load of hot air” and “nothing but PR,” criticising the ministry for always acting on the defence and failing to take the necessary forward-planning decisions within the country to modernise Iraq’s irrigation and reduce wastage.

“It’s a PR-move by the ministry which will lead to no solutions,” Alwash said. “The blame should be on Iraq for not taking advantage of the last 20 years to modernise irrigation - it’s far too easy to blame Iran.”

Iran, in response, has criticised the Iraqi establishment for their water shortages, pointing to the failure of successive Iraqi governments to implement a sustainable water policy or build new infrastructure like dams to accommodate the burgeoning population.

Alwash, who was part of Iraq’s delegation to the 26th United Nations Global Climate Summit in Glasgow last month, has long pushed for a more collaborative approach to dealing with water access with Iran and Turkey in particular. “We need to put these ideas on the table first,” he explained.

“Iraq is facing an existential crisis and it is time Iraqis pay attention and take action for the issues on the horizon,” Azzam warned. “What is happening now with Iran will happen in the future with Turkey.”

Iraq and Syria, which also share the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, have signed up to the UN Watercourses Convention of 1997, governing sources that cross borders, but Turkey and Iran have not.

Speaking at a panel discussion on climate and water in the Middle East, focused on a new London School of Economics report into water management in southern Iraq in November, Alwash called for greater collaboration between Middle Eastern countries and criticised the frame of mind behind Iraq’s water management for being too focused on flood control.

    He advised moving to a more cooperative situation in a way that makes transnational - and transactional - sense for all countries in the region, by demonstrating that there is an enlightened self-interest in promoting sustainable environmental policies across borders.
On Monday, the Planetary Security Initiative published a report on how climate-security practices could become an engine for peace, rather than an issue of contention, promoting the idea of a “Green Blue Deal for the Middle East”: a way to turn water scarcity from a “threat multiplier to a multiplier of trust-building opportunities,” promoting increased cooperation among Middle East nations over natural water reallocation, water management and renewable energy generation.

On the banks of Shatt al-Arab, the waterway where the Tigris and the Euphrates meet and flow out to the Gulf, and Iraqi fishermen live in fear of arrest by Iranian and Kuwaiti forces for crossing the riverine and maritime borders, it remains to be seen whether such collaborative approaches will be pursued.

The World Bank warned in October that Iraq is running out of water with devastating consequences on the country’s economy, stressing a failure to manage water resources as a key damaging factor.

The agriculture ministry said in October that the government has approved a plan to reduce this year’s winter crops in irrigated areas by 50 percent because of lack of water.

Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable nation in the world to the effects of climate change, including water and food insecurity. Low rainfall levels and high temperatures caused by climate change are depleting water supplies across the country. Much of Iraq’s agricultural lands depend on irrigation, and dams and reservoirs were at record-low levels this summer.

Parts of Iran are also suffering from an acute water crisis, contributing to widespread protests last month, triggered by drought in Isfahan province, which were heavily repressed by Iranian security forces.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Dec 13, 2021 1:35 am

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TEHRAN, Iran - "No, my cat is not dangerous," says Iranian animal lover Mostafa, outraged by a proposal from ultraconservative lawmakers to ban pets

The 25-year-old, who runs a pet supplies shop on busy Eskandari Street in downtown Tehran, is stunned.

"Crocodiles can be called dangerous, but how can rabbits, dogs and cats be dangerous?" he asked incredulously about the bill introduced a month ago.

The proposed law pits growing numbers of people with pets against those who consider the practice decadent and hold that under Islamic law dogs, like pigs, are unclean.

According to media reports, 75 MPs, or one quarter of parliamentarians, recently signed a text entitled "Support for the rights of the population in relation to harmful and dangerous animals."

In their introduction, the authors condemn the practice of humans living under one roof with domesticated animals as a "destructive social problem."

The phenomenon, they explain, could "gradually change the Iranian and Islamic way of life" by "replacing human and family relationships with feelings and emotional relationships towards animals."

The proposed law would prohibit "importing, raising, assisting in the breeding of, breeding, buying or selling, transporting, driving or walking, and keeping in the home wild, exotic, harmful and dangerous animals."

It lists the animals to be banned as "crocodiles, turtles, snakes, lizards, cats, mice, rabbits, dogs and other unclean animals as well as monkeys."

- 'Chaos, corruption, disobedience' -

Offenders would risk a fine equivalent to 10 to 30 times the "minimum monthly working wage" of about $98 or 87 euros and the "confiscation" of the animal.

In addition, vehicles used to transport the animal would be confiscated for three months.

While Iran is engaged in difficult negotiations on its nuclear programme and enduring a painful economic downturn because of US sanctions, the bill has sparked criticism in the press, mockery on social networks and anger among residents of the capital.

"These projects will certainly cause chaos, corruption and collective disobedience to this law because... living with animals is now a cultural phenomenon," warned the reformist daily Shargh.

Some internet users reacted with irony and sarcasm.

"How many times have cats sought to devour you so that you consider them wild, harmful and dangerous?" journalist Yeganeh Khodami asked on Twitter.

Another posted a photo of his kitten with the message: "I have renamed my cat 'Criminal' since I heard this proposed law."

An actress who asked to remain anonymous said she had planned a demonstration against the pet ban plan in front of parliament but then dropped the idea because of pressure on her.

In the face of the public outcry, few parliamentarians are willing to strongly defend the bill.

"I agree with the project in general, but I certainly disagree with some of its clauses," said the head of parliament's judicial commission, Moussa Ghazanfarabadi, who signed the text.

"It is just a bill, but whether it succeeds is another matter," he told AFP.

- 'Animal rights, human rights' -

Another lawmaker from Tehran, the environmentalist Somayeh Rifiei, said she believes that a law is needed on which animals can be kept, and which cannot.

"No one can deny the services that animals provide to humans, but this area must be regulated," she said. "That is the basis of social life."

She said that, aside from the pet ban bill, "the government has drafted a bill that gives special attention to biodiversity and wildlife. It deals with both animal rights and human rights.

"Basically, I would prefer to see this bill on the agenda rather than a proposal that focuses only on criminalisation."

On Eskandari Street, vendors fear the consequences of any such law.

"It might destroy thousands of jobs," said Mohsen, 34.

His wife Mina, said she was more worried about her dog.

"Why should I imprison him at home?" she said of her canine companion. "The MPs probably assume that young couples today don't have children because they have a pet dog, but that's stupid.

"It's not the dogs but the economic conditions that don't allow us to have children," she added.

"At one time they banned satellite television, yet people continued to use it, but with fear and anxiety. People will keep their animals at home to protect them."

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Syrian livestock farmers are struggling to keep up with the effects of drought and feed prices

Khidir Khazi has been raising sheep in northeast Syria for 25 years. He is now forced to sell off half of his 110 sheep to mitigate his recent financial losses due to the drought and a hike in feed prices.

He complains of a lack of support from the authorities.

“My sheep have lost a lot of weight, so I am forced to sell them. Weak sheep do not sell, because they do not have enough meat,” said Khazi, noting that fodder is unaffordable.

Segirka livestock market is located in the village of Darbasiya in Hasaka province. Its merchants report that sheep and goat prices have dropped by 70 percent.

Compared to last year, the price of domestic livestock feed has increased ten-fold, according to trader Mohammed Ismael.

Ismael also says the product is imported from Turkey to Manbij. The price has hiked due to extra export charges, [border] customs.

Low rainfall levels and high temperatures caused by climate change, as well as upstream damming are depleting water supplies in Syria.

Low water levels in the Euphrates put electricity generation at two dams in northern Syria at risk, leaving many fields dry.

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Dams across the Kurdistan Region are operating significantly below their capacity, directors of two of the largest dams told Rudaw on Tuesday, as a combination of this summer’s lack of rain and water blockages from neighbouring countries contribute to plummeting water levels

Over 30 dams of varying sizes exist within the Region, according to the Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, with a total capacity of 10 billion cubic metres of water.

Dukan and Darbandikhan dams in Sulaimani province are both currently operating at under a third of their full capacity; a considerably lower rate linked to climate change and compounded by the construction of dams in neighbouring Iran which officials claim is reducing water access in the Region.

Water levels at Dukan dam, built in 1959, have decreased by six metres compared to last year, with just 2 billion cubic metres of water out of a seven billion cubic capacity. Darbandikhan dam, built in 1961, has seen a decrease in its water level by seven metres, with its 2.5 billion cubic capacity operating at just 800 million cubic metres.

Officials in Sulaimani province warned of low water supplies even before the hottest months of this summer and, in November, Darbandikhan hydropower plant generated its lowest level of electricity yet because of significant water shortages in its dam.

Director of Dukan dam, Kochar Jamal, told Rudaw on Tuesday that the current water level of the dam is 488.73 metres high. “If we compare it to this time last year, it has dropped by nearly six metres,” he said, adding that the dam has “a shortage of five billion cubic metres.”

In the Region’s Duhok province, Duhok dam, built in 1988, is facing even greater challenges. With 24 million cubic metres of water out of a capacity of 52 million, the dam is operating at under half of its full capacity, and its current levels have decreased by a staggering 15 metres compared to last year.

Officials have warned for years that dams built by Iran - as well as Turkey - have contributed to a growing water crisis in the southern and central provinces of Iraq and the northern Kurdistan Region. Iran has built around 600 dams in the country in the last 30 years; cutting or diverting river courses from its territory into Iraq.

According to a report by the Washington DC-based Fikra Institute, failed international cooperation and an increase in dam construction is leading to increased water shortages and threatening Iraq's security.

Earlier this year, the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Dam Directorate Akram Ahmed told Rudaw that the Region was in the midst of a water crisis due to a lack of rain, government funds, and dams being built in neighbouring Iran, and that the Iraqi government required a plan.

This has yet to materialise, with Rahman Khani, director of Darbandikhan dam, restating that talks between Iraq and Iran are required to resolve the crisis.

“Even if it is a rainy year this year, Darbandikhan’s water income will drop significantly if Iran does not release water for us. There must be a political agreement between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with Iran for some amount of water to be released in order to provide enough water to the people downstream from Darbandikhan Dam next year,” he told Rudaw.

Iraq’s Ministry of Water Resources last week made plans to take Iran to court over the country’s water policy towards Iraq, with Iraq's Minister of Water Resources Mehdi Rashid Al-Hamdani accusing Iran of digging tunnels and trying to alter the natural flow of water earlier this year.

The lawsuit would seek to guarantee the country’s right to shared water resources, although the move has been criticised for its uncollaborative approach to the existential issue, and it is unlikely to be taken any further by Iraq’s foreign ministry and current prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, who are keen to avoid flaring tensions with Iran.

Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable nation in the world to the effects of climate change, including water and food insecurity. Low rainfall levels and high temperatures caused by climate change are depleting water supplies across the country. Much of Iraq’s agricultural lands depend on irrigation, and dams and reservoirs were at record-low levels this summer.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Dec 16, 2021 11:55 pm

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Bleak outlook for drought-hit Iraqis

Half of the families living in drought-affected areas of Iraq need humanitarian food aid, the Norwegian Refugee Council said in a recently released study

Experts have warned that record low rainfall, compounded by climate change, are threatening social and economic disaster in war-scarred Iraq.

The NRC said its research shows that "one in two families in drought-affected regions require food assistance because of drought, while one in five do not have sufficient food for everyone in the family."

The NGO based its study on interviews in 2,806 homes across seven provinces, among them Anbar in the west, Basra in the south and the north's Nineveh.

These three are traditionally considered to be the breadbasket of Iraq but have been hit hard by the crisis.

The United Nations says about one-third of Iraq's population lives in poverty, despite the country's oil wealth.

The effects of low rainfall have been exacerbated as the levels of the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, drop because of upstream dams in neighbouring Iran and Turkey.

"Communities across Iraq have faced damaging losses to their crops, livestock, and income. Children are eating less, and farmers and displaced populations are hit hardest," the report said, adding young people are particularly vulnerable.

The NRC said 37 percent of farmers growing wheat and 30 percent of those planting barley saw their expected crop yields fall by at least 90 percent.

"Families are telling us they have to borrow money to eat amid soaring prices and dwindling savings," said Maithree Abeyrathna, NRC's Head of Programmes in Iraq.

"They say their only source of living is vanishing in front of their eyes. Their lands are drying up and there is nothing they can do about it."

Last month, the World Bank warned that Iraq could suffer a 20-percent drop in water resources by 2050 due to climate change.

"The outlook for 2022 is worrying, with continued water shortages and drought conditions likely to devastate the coming farming season, the NRC study said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Dec 17, 2021 11:35 pm

Severe flooding across Erbil

Several people have died and a number of others were injured in Erbil after a heavy rainstorm caused severe flooding in some of the city’s neighborhoods and districts

Following a summer of drought, a heavy rainstorm hit Erbil on Thursday evening causing significant flooding, material damage, and the loss of at least eight lives.

“Seven people died due to floods and one other person died in a lightning strike,” Omed Khoshnaw told Rudaw’s Fuad Raheem about events in the city overnight, noting that several others have been injured and it is still unclear how many homes have been damaged and the total number of fatalities.

Erbil’s civil defence department told Rudaw that four of its members were injured while helping people.

Muddy waters swept into people’s homes in Erbil's Daratu, Qushtapa, Shamamk, Zhyan, Roshinbiri and Bahrka areas in the early hours of the morning, flooding individuals out of their houses.

Among the deaths is an infant from Qushtapa and three members from the same family in Daratu, according to Khoshnaw, adding that the number of fatalities “could possibly increase.”

The heavy waters swept away the ten-month-old Daner Nabaz from his father's arms, according to his outraged mother who called on the authorities for help as burning tears penetrated her skin. Her son's body is yet to be found.

“The fridge is on the floor... everything is on the floor. I don’t even have clothes to wear anymore,” another woman whose house was swept by the rainwaters told Rudaw’s Farhad Dolamari, with the sight of her home causing her to shed infuriating tears.

Erbil suffers from an inadequate water supply distribution network and an unsustainable drainage system. Sewers often overflow, leading to sewage escaping and mixing with stormwater.

Footage of flooded streets, damaged houses, broken cars, and raging residents have circulated on social media.

Erbil's governor also urged the people to “not use the roads inside and outside Erbil unless for utmost urgency,” in a statement on Friday noting that another wave of heavy rain is expected to hit the city in the upcoming hours.

The rainstorm is expected to last for more days, with heavy rainfall reported across several cities of the Region.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Friday emphasized the importance of saving civilians lives, and “to do whatever is needed” to help the people.

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Friday called on "all government agencies to provide immediate support and relief to areas affected."

Expressing her sadness about the lives lost to the floods in a tweet, Halabja Mayor Nuxsha Nasih called on PM Barzani and his deputy Qubad Talabani to delegate financial and administrative authorities and to “provide all the needs for logistic governance” in the Region.

Nasih also warned of floods in other provinces, and emphasized the importance of “listening to advisers and officials.”

Erbil province often faces severe floods in the colder seasons of the year. Nearly 600 houses suffered material damage and stalling vehicles blocked flooded main roads in its first strong rainfall of the year in late October.

In the past years, several neighborhoods of Erbil have faced severe damages due to floods.

This flood comes as the Kurdistan Region faced a record dry year, with several lakes and rivers drying up and thousands of crops damaged.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Dec 17, 2021 11:39 pm

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President Barzani to help floods victims

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani allocated one billion Iraqi dinars ($685,000) to those people who were affected by the deadly floods in Erbil on Friday. The money will be spent through the Rwanga Foundation, according to a statement from the organization.

The money will be spent on providing food and house equipment to people who were affected by the flooding, the Rwanga Foundation said in its statement, adding that they will also start “cleaning the houses, roads, and affected neighborhoods.”

“The mentioned support will start on December 18, 2021, and continue until the families return to their homes. It is worth mentioning that the process of support will be carried out in coordination with the Erbil governorate and Barzani Charity Foundation,” read the statement.

In the early hours of Friday, floods killed 12 people in several neighborhoods of Erbil, the capital city of Kurdistan Region, according to Governor Omed Khoshnaw, who told reporters later in the day that they would assess the losses on Saturday.

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani received a phone call from his Iraqi counterpart Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in which the latter expressed his government's readiness to help the Region cope with flash floods in Erbil that killed a dozen people.

This is the second wave of flooding in Erbil city this year, with the first one in late October mostly causing material damage. Bad sewage system was blamed for this flooding as well, and the investor who built an affected neighbourhood was jailed for allegedly changing the direction of the sewage.

    I share the grief of those who lost their loved ones during last night’s floods in Erbil. I spoke to Governor Omed Khoshnaw this morning and ordered local authorities to intensify rescue and assistance efforts. Special thanks to first responders for their selfless service.
    — Nechirvan Barzani (@IKRPresident) December 17, 2021
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