Climate Action Scenarios and the Future of Afghanistan’s Sustainable Development

Esmailnejad, Morteza; Aliyar, Qurban

doi:10.22077/jdcr.2023.6156.1018

Climate Action Scenarios and the Future of Afghanistan’s Sustainable Development

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Morteza Esmailnejad ¹

Qurban Aliyar ²

¹ Department of Geography and Department of Research Group of Drought and Climate Change, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

² Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Faculty of Agriculture, Bamyan University, Bamyan, 1601, Afghanistan

https://doi.org/10.22077/jdcr.2023.6156.1018

Abstract

Afghanistan is one of the worst affected of the climate change impact. Integrating climate measures and sustainable development goals into research and innovation can improve Afghanistan's future prospects. The effects of climate change lead to a lack of water and food, disease, unemployment, etc. Migration, poverty, tensions in the field of resources, and instability in Afghanistan and the world. The purpose of this study is to identify climate action companies for the sustainable development of Afghanistan. Descriptive-analytical method and using climate data and models to investigate the main strategies in the field of adaptation and reduction of the effect of climate change in Afghanistan. stainable development Estimating the drivers and assumptions of four global 2050 climate change scenarios by the Joint Research Center (JRC), Science Service and the knowledge of the European Commission in 2021, climate change scenarios and the future of sustainable development in Afghanistan in the horizon of 2050 with the titles: 1. scenario First: Dream Afghanistan; 2. Second scenario: Afghanistan on the way to sustainability; 3. The third scenario: unstable Afghanistan; 4. The fourth scenario: Afghanistan in difficult conditions, edited became. Afghanistan’s Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan should be urgently finalized and implemented as a primary step towards mainstreaming climate change into national development plans

Keywords

climate Action

Afghanistan

Scenario

sustainable development

Subjects

Climate change

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