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Meeting the challenge of climate change in Yemen
In view of the challenge Yemen faces from climate change, Yemen was selected as one of nine single-pilot countries around the world to participate in the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience....
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As water disappears from the Arab world, data is falling from the sky
A ground-breaking study released last month shows how the Middle East is losing its fresh water reserves. Prepared jointly by NASA and the University of California Irvine, and published by...
View ArticleSupporting small farmers in Morocco adapt to climate change & boost yields
Video PlatformVideo ManagementVideo SolutionsVideo PlayerI started working in Morocco four years ago as a result of the government’s request forsupport in implementing their national agricultural...
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Natural disasters in the Arab World: Today’s plan is a shelter for tomorrow’s...
Disaster Risk Management has become a critical component of national policy and planning. In the Middle East and North Africa region, the interplay of natural disasters, together with the...
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Education and Climate Change in the Middle East and North Africa
The Middle East and North Africa region is on the front lines of climate change. According to the World Bank report Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4 ͦ C Warmer World Must be Avoided (WB, 2012), the region...
View ArticleMore crop per drop in the Middle East and North Africa
Interview Water is a scarce commodity: we should take care of it. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region there is really very little choice. The region only receives about two percent of...
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Morocco: Turning a Commitment to Clean Energy into Reality
In 2009, Morocco adopted a visionary energy sector development plan that committed to increasing the country’s share of renewable energy to 42 percent of national capacity by 2020. The country...
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The Global Environment Facility and its Multiple Impacts
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is an independent funding mechanism with its own review and approval process. It partners with a number of institutions, including the World Bank, to prepare,...
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Smart Cities in North Africa: A Localized Debate about a Global Trend
Walking past the Check-in counter in Casablanca’s Mohamed V International Airport, a digital sign claims X amount of solar energy used and X amount of energy savings occurred in powering a transit hub...
View ArticleThe inspiring Green Growth program of Morocco: How it could work back home in...
Video On assignment in the Morocco office for about three months, I had the chance to have what I could confidently describe as a rich development experience. Getting away from Egypt’s years of unrest...
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Two Scenarios for a Hotter and Drier Arab World—And What We Can Do About It
If you think the summers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are hot—think again. Summers are likely to become much warmer. Global temperatures are rising; the question now is by how...
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#EarthDay: Floods, droughts and extreme heat threaten the Arab World
If the earth gets much hotter this century, life will get harder for most people across the world. But how much harder will it be for people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), a region...
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A green school in Egypt offers lessons on coping with climate change
The Middle East is plagued by so many issues—severe economic problems, civil wars, and the threat of radical armed groups—that it is easy to push climate change to the bottom of everyone’s agenda. But...
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Why is #COP21 important for the Middle East and North Africa region?
Over 25,000 people have descended on the Bourget in the suburbs of Paris to attend the much anticipated 21st Conference of Parties on climate change, or “COP21”. The first meeting today is due to be...
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Climate change finds the lost world of Socotra Island
I wasn’t in Socotra or the southern Yemeni city of Aden when the two cyclones hit them in mid-November, but I have a big family and many friends who live there. As I listened intently to the news, I...
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Low oil prices give Gulf countries reason to focus on clean energy and...
The 2014/15 oil price collapse may actually provide an opportunity for the Gulf region to focus on “green” economic thinking and on maximizing energy productivity overall. Given their large...
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How climate change contributed to the conflicts in the Middle East and North...
The Climate Change conference in Paris only confirmed what we already knew—that increasingly, there’s an overlap between conventional security threats of a military nature, which are focused on...
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Middle East moves from power cuts to sustainable energy and lower emissions
The agreement reached by 196 countries at Paris to collectively work to limit the growth of global average temperatures to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels is a landmark for...
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Just across the Mediterranean – The Transition from COP21 to COP22
France has just hosted COP21 to a very successful conclusion: the 2015 Paris Agreement. This achieved consensus among 196 countries on the most complex and challenging global issue of our time –...
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