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Talek HARRIS

COP28 Host UAE Ready For Rising Heat Risk, Says Minister

The UAE's summer temperatures sometimes exceed 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) (Credit: AFP)

The United Arab Emirates is ready for soaring temperatures that are feared to make parts of the Gulf uninhabitable by the end of the century, the oil power's climate change minister told AFP.

Long experience of the harsh desert summers has taught the country to live with temperatures that regularly flirt with 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), she said.

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