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Security Council members call for climate-resilient infrastructure, finance and planning to reduce instability in Libya
Summary
Ahead of a Security Council briefing, a group of council members led by Guyana urged Libyan authorities and partners to address climate-driven risks to stability, citing the 2023 Derna floods and chronic water stress, and called for dam modernization, unified budgeting and expanded access to international climate finance.
Ahead of a United Nations Security Council briefing, the Representative of Guyana, speaking for a group of Security Council members including France, Greece, Denmark, Panama, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia and the United Kingdom, urged Libyan authorities and development partners to address climate-related drivers of instability in Libya.
The Representative of Guyana said the country faces multiple climate hazards — rising temperatures, declining rainfall, rising sea levels and frequent sand and dust storms — and noted that "less than 2% of its land receives sufficient…
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