MENA Climate Week 2022: Tackling Climate Change in MENA by Improving Regional Cooperation
Publisher: Brussels International Center
Author(s): Clémentine Lienard
Date: 2022
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Prevention, Cooperation, Governance, Renewable Resources
Countries: Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
For the first time in history, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will hold a regional climate week in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region on 28-31st March 2022 in Dubai. This initiative aims to gather policymakers, international organisations, private companies, cities, and civil society from across the region to discuss and explore grounds for cooperation. When compared with the founding in 2017 of other regional climate weeks for Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, the establishment of a regional forum on climate change in MENA seems to come rather late. In the line of other recent policy developments, it is yet more evidence that climate action is now finally existing on the region’s political agenda.