In 2018, the MENA region emitted 3.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and produced 8.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions are mostly from the energy sector, an integral component of
Green house gases being emitted from a chimney in a natural gas and oil field in Western Iran
A Sudanese farmer and his land. Drought and low rainfall has severely reduced the farmer's capacity to grow crops.
The coastline of Alexandria, Egypt's 2nd largest city
Mohammed VI of Morocco speaking at the COP22 climate summit held in Marrakech
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The Middle East is a geopolitical region that is generally defined as encompassing all of West Asia except for the Caucasus and including African Egypt and European Turkey. It roughly corresponds with
Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa
…currently emitting above the global average per person, with most of the top ten countries by carbon dioxide emissions per person being found in the Middle East. These high emissions levels can be primarily attributed to Saudi Arabia and Iran, which are the 9th and 7th largest emitters of CO2 in the world…
Giza Pyramid complex in Egypt. Built during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, between c. 2600 – c. 2500 BC.
Some henges at Göbekli Tepe were erected as far back as 9600 BC, predating those of Stonehenge, England, by over seven millennia. The site of the oldest known religious structure created by humans.
Western Wall and Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem