Tunisia: Climate Change – Adaptation Options for Tunisia, 5th Most Vulnerable Country Worldwide to Growing Risk of Drought

Tunis, April 16 — Tunisia, which has suffered six years of drought over the past decade, is considered to be the 5th most vulnerable country in the world to the growing risk of droughts and water shortages, according to the latest report published in March 2024 by the Tunisian Institute of Competitiveness and Quantitative Studies (ITCEQ).

With a high rate of abstraction of freshwater resources and low dam capacity, the water sector is the 2nd most vulnerable after agriculture, with a high…