Environmental issues in the United Arab Emirates | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:02:40 1 Issues
00:03:05 1.1 Historical background
00:07:29 2 Climate change
00:09:02 2.1 Abu Dhabi Ascent
00:10:32 2.2 Effects of climate change
00:10:42 2.2.1 Rising sea level
00:12:20 2.2.2 Dust storms
00:14:41 2.3 Mitigation of climate change
00:14:50 2.3.1 Nuclear power
00:17:27 2.4 Adaption to climate change
00:17:37 2.4.1 Desalination
00:20:25 3 Loss of wildlife habitat
00:20:35 3.1 Coastal urbanization
00:22:51 4 Limited agricultural land
00:25:25 5 Air pollution



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Environmental challenges in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are caused by the exploitation of natural resources, rapid population growth, and high energy demand. The continuing temperature rise caused by global warming contributes to UAE's water scarcity, drought, rising sea level and aridity. The countryside of the UAE, characterized with its great arid land, infrequent precipitation, and high temperatures are already facing long-term aridity. This precondition is very vulnerable to the effects of climate change and contributes to worsening water scarcity, quality, and water contamination.The United Arab Emirates are located in the Middle East between Oman and Saudi Arabia, adjoining the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. In the last years, the impact of global warming on the UAE has intensified the already existing environmental issues, including water scarcity and limited agricultural land. The United Arab Emirates are a contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, listed as having the 29th highest carbon dioxide emissions. Since the boom of the oil-industry occurred in the early 21st century, the population and its consumption of energy have sharply increased.
The UAE contains the world's seventh largest natural resource of oil and seventeenth-largest natural gas reserve. This possession of a high amount of valuable natural resources, pushed the UAE to the position of the ninth wealthiest country in the world by 2016 GDP per capita. These financial resources support their adaptation capacity to "climate change-induced challenges". Currently, they are investing in increasing air conditioning infrastructure, rainwater drainage systems, constructing flood barriers and new desalination plants. In June 2016 Abu Dhabi announced a project for an enhanced rainwater drainage system due to unnaturally occurring thunderstorms in March 2016 which caused 860 damages on properties and flooding.Also the three main characteristics of UAE's politics contribute to the recent natural unsustainability: First, the Emirates feature components of a Rentier state. It is governed by an authoritarian political system and finally both facts cause critical natural resource-related trades. In particular, UAE as a rentier state means that the federalization gains external rent from foreign individuals, companies and governments. A rentier state's economy is predominated by the dependency on external rents. Oil revenues also count as external rent.