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Libya is the highest carbon emitter of countries in Africa with an estimated per person annual rate of 8.5 tons of CO2 . On the global scale, however, Libya represents a much smaller percentage of carbon emissions. In 2022, Libya emitted 44.682 Mt of CO2, equating to only 0.1% of global CO2 emissions. In terms of methane, Libya is considered one of the highest global polluters in the context of its barrel-to-flare ratio.
The burning of fossil fuels is the biggest source of these emissions for Libya, specifically oil. The sectors of Libya’s economy that produce the largest greenhouse gas emissions are the electricity sector, followed by the transportation sector. In 2021, Libya was the seventh-largest producer of crude oil out of the OPEC countries. Further, 3% of the world’s oil reserves and 39% of Africa’s oil reserves are in Libya. The economy of Libya, by way of oil production, is currently dependent on activities that emit greenhouse gasses.
Impacts on the natural environment
Temperature and weather changes
The increase in regional temperatures in tandem with other anthropocentric factors of urbanization, migration, and resource exploitation is reducing the availability of arable land and contributing to a disproportionate increase in desert ecosystems over other vegetation and ecosystems .
Water resources
Libya is incredibly water scarce and vulnerable to high water insecurity, largely due to its lack of rivers and other bodies of freshwater (cite). Globally, Libya is the fourth-most water stressed nation (cite). The largest source of water for the country is from groundwater and fossil water sources, at 79% (cite). The agricultural sector receives 83.1% of all freshwater resources, largely for the purposes of livestock and irrigation (cite). Libya has a high rate of water consumption, especially in agriculture, and this alongside the limited availability of water and the frequency of droughts in Libya, makes water scarcity a prevalent issue.
Libya is supplied by groundwater aquifers, including some that reside along its coastline on the Mediterranean Sea. However, due to sea level rise and flooding events, these freshwater sources have begun to experience saltwater intrusion and the quality of water in the aquifers has begun to decrease. Furthermore, pollution from fertilizers and sewage mismanagement has tainted the quality of water in some aquifers (cite).
The Man-Made River Project (cite) is one such aquifer example and provides Libya with 60% of its water resources (cite). It is the largest underground irrigation project in the world. However, the project’s construction allows it to tap into and exploit non-renewable aquifers, which cannot be recharged by precipitation events (cite). Therefore, the long-term stability of this project as a water resource is variable since it depends upon a decreasing reserve.
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- UNDP; UNICEF; IOM UN Migration; COP 27 (October 2022). "UN Climate Change Fact Sheet: Libya" (PDF).
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