Synne Furnes Bjerkestrand

Jor­dan, the sec­ond most wa­ter-scarce coun­try in the world, is adapt­ing to the con­se­quences of cli­mate change.

The Dead Sea has been drop­ping one me­tre each year, caus­ing sink­holes and oth­er prob­lems for the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor.

Wa­ter scarci­ty and oth­er ef­fects of cli­mate change im­pact the vul­ner­a­ble the most, say NGO work­ers.

Af­ter be­ing told to re­turn to Dam­as­cus, Syr­i­ans, some of whom ar­rived as chil­dren, stage a sit-in out­side par­lia­ment.