The United Nations aid chief, Martin Griffiths, stated that the devastating floods in Libya, which have claimed thousands of lives, are the result of a collision between climate factors and limited capacity.
“In Libya, where access to Derna is still so difficult, where there are the compounding problems of the dam breaking, as well as the storm breaking from the sea, this is a tragedy in which climate and capacity has collided,” Martin Griffiths told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.
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He said that the U.N. humanitarian office had sent a disaster coordination team of 15 people who had been redeployed from Morocco which suffered an earthquake last week.
The flooding in Libya underscores the urgent challenges posed by climate change and the capacity of nations to respond effectively to such emergencies.