How will Beirut look in 2050? (Photo João Sousa)
This is story is totally fictitious. It takes the reader to Beirut in 2050, as one might imagine it if the current course of climate change is not altered. The story is based on scientific projections for the Lebanese capital, as well as other Mediterranean coastal cities.This speculative piece was possible thanks to the invaluable contribution of two climate specialists. Wajdi Najem, professor emeritus at Saint Joseph University, has been studying Lebanon’s climate for 40 years. Lea Kaï, a climate change expert at the United Nations Development Programme, helped interpret the data in the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, entitled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the fourth National Report, submitted by Lebanon to the UN Climate Change Agency.Although in the early...
This is story is totally fictitious. It takes the reader to Beirut in 2050, as one might imagine it if the current course of climate change is not altered. The story is based on scientific projections for the Lebanese capital, as well as other Mediterranean coastal cities.This speculative piece was possible thanks to the invaluable contribution of two climate specialists. Wajdi Najem, professor emeritus at Saint Joseph University, has been studying Lebanon’s climate for 40 years. Lea Kaï, a climate change expert at the United Nations Development Programme, helped interpret the data in the sixth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, entitled Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and the fourth National Report, submitted by Lebanon to the UN Climate Change Agency.Although in the...
