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The study\u2019s conclusions include that water shortages lead to five times more migration than floods and it estimates that 21 million people in the Middle East and North Africa will have been forcibly displaced by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Cassandra conference was also addressed by Wolfgang Cramer, coordinator of MedECC and author of the report \u201cClimate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin\u201d, which sets out the forecast of a regional temperature increase coming to 2.2\u00ba C by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Hartwig Kremer, the head of the United Nations Environment Programme\u2019s Global Environment Monitoring Unit, argued that climate change \u201cleads to an increase in climate-related disasters in which water is the main risk factor for wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xavier Torra, Eurecat\u2019s chair, noted \u201cthe need to engage all sectors of society in crafting and rolling out practical solutions to mitigate and adapt to the potential effects of climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Climate change \u201cis completely altering the balance of interests on which an entire region is built,\u201d added Grammenos Mastrojeni, the Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean in charge of Climate Action and Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Michela Miletto, the coordinator of UNESCO\u2019s World Water Assessment Programme, stressed that scientific solutions for water, food, energy and other issues should shape policy and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Climate change and migration flows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The centrepiece of the discussion on the first day of the international Cassandra conference was the direct effect of climate change on health and security and its impact on migration coupled with how this involuntary displacement is viewed in the social and political arenas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in the best case scenario, if we hit the Paris target of 1.5\u00ba C, it is expected that millions more people will have to migrate,\u201d warned Mar\u00eda Guevara, the International Medical Secretary of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<p>Jeannie Sowers, Professor of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire, pointed out that \u201cwe often focus on the human impacts of conflict and climate change, but we should also be talking about the environmental impacts of conflict and climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the international Cassandra conference, hosted by the Eurecat technology centre, warned of rising migration and conflict in the Mediterranean due to climate change, which the World Bank says has turned water scarcity into a trigger for growing involuntary displacement and economic and social inequalities. 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