This year's United Nations climate change conference, known as COP27, is being held in Egypt in November.The conference will pay special attention to climate problems of the Middle East.The U.N. wants to talk about the damage that climate problems have already caused Middle Eastern economies.In Iraq, sandstorms have hit cities often this year.The wind storms shut down businesses and sent thousands of people to hospitals.In Egypt's Nile River Delta, rising soil salt levels are eating away farmland.And in Afghanistan, drought has helped fuel the movement of young people from their homes to cities in search of work.Average temperatures in the Middle East have risen far faster than the world's average in the past 30 years.That information comes from the International Monetary Fund.And in recent weeks, temperatures in some parts of the region have reached 50 degrees Celsius.Lama El Hatow is an expert on environmental climate change.
