Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response

The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011, has been widely framed as a “climate conflict” and a mass migration and uprising triggered by a severe drought. This very well-known and media-popular narrative is now debunked in a new report by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH).

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