Understanding Morocco’s Climate Futures – Using National climate change data sets to support planning and investment

Climate change adds a new complexity to water and food insecurity, human mobility and settlement by exacerbating environmental degradation, and acting as a threat multiplier across already stressed natural resource base. Thee environmental deterioration impacts the social capital and livelihoods of many affected people, particularly the most vulnerable. The interlinkages between increased climate variability, water and livelihood insecurity, population growth and mobility, employment, political and geo-strategic challenges are complex and inter-related. 

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Specifically, when addressing water scarcity and its relation to fragility, there are no easy answers, but rather a complex and shifting set of socioeconomic, governance and environmental relationships that are context-specific and locally, nationally and regionally embedded. Indeed, water scarcity and fragility can create a cycle of feedbacks, in which a worsening of one exacerbates the other. .. 

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