Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptations and Policy-Making Process: Palestine as a Case Study (Full Text)Ziad Mimi, Michael Mason,and Mark Zeitoun
Global climate change related to natural and anthropogenic processes has been the topic of concern and interest world-wide. One of the most significant impacts of the ‘greenhouse effect’ is anticipated to be on water resources. Thus, the impact of climate change appears to be an additional component on top of the large number of existing water-related problems. The present paper will identify key climate change actors...
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Knowledge Mapping of Climate Change Issues and Stakeholders in LebanonNadim Farajalla
Human activities have now been proven to be the main cause for changes in the Earth’s climate. Climate change has become the central issue of global concern; no country, large or small, rich or poor, will be immune from its ramifications. According to the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (FAR) published in 2007 projects that the temperature in the Middle East will increase 1- 2°C by 2030-2050. In a more focused...
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Current Status of Climate Change Research and Policy in the Levant; The Jordan Case Full Text Manar Fayyad
Rising concern over greenhouse gas emissions and their impact on the climate of the earth led to the international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was legally non-binding in that it did not set mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions for individual...
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Current Status of Climate Change Research and Policy in the Levant; The Jordan Case English SummaryManar Fayyad
A closed workshop on climate change, water, and the policy making process in the Levant and North Africa region was held by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in August 2009.
Attending the workshop were leading experts on water and sanitation, and several countries were highlighted as case studies. This particular summary focuses on the case of Jordan, which was put together...
مذكرات للباحثين وصناع القرار #5 | حزيران 2009
تجارة الكربون: إمكانية أمام الدول العربية للحد من تغير المناخجاد شعبان
.يوفر الاتجار في انبعاثات الكربون حافزاً مالياً للدول العربية للتخفيف من آثار تغير المناخ، لكنها لا تزال بحاجة إلى خفض انبعاثات الكربون ومتابعة بروتوكول كيوتو في جهد دولي لدرء ظاهرة الاحتباس الحراري
.وكان هذا رأي الاوساط الاكادميية والقطاع الخاص حول تجارة الكربون كاستراتيجية للتخفيف من حدة تغير المناخ في العالم العربي الذي تم عرضه خلال محاضرة جرت مؤخرا في الجامعة الاميركية في بيروت
Research and Policy Memo #5 | June 2009
Carbon Trading: A Potential for Arab Countries to Abate Climate ChangeJad Chaaban,and Souheil Abboud
Carbon emissions trading provides a financial incentive for Arab countries to mitigate the effects of climate change, but they still need to reduce carbon emissions and follow the Kyoto Protocol in an international effort to fend off global warming.
This was the view from academia and the private sector on carbon trading as a climate change mitigation strategy for the Arab world, presented during a recent lecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB)...
Research and Policy Memo #5 | June 2009
Carbon Trading: A Potential for Arab Countries to Abate Climate ChangeJad Chaaban,and Souheil Abboud
Carbon emissions trading provides a financial incentive for Arab countries to mitigate the effects of climate change, but they still need to reduce carbon emissions and follow the Kyoto Protocol in an international effort to fend off global warming.
This was the view from academia and the private sector on carbon trading as a climate change mitigation strategy for the Arab world, presented during a recent lecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB)...
Research and Policy Memo #4 | May 2009
Water Mismanagement Responsible for High Levels of Saline and Chloride in Greater Beirut GroundwaterMark Saadeh
Intrusion in the coastal aquifers of Greater Beirut has largely been a direct consequence of decades of water mismanagement – exacerbated by a civil war lasting more than fifteen years, according to Dr Mark Saadeh, consultant to the Litani River Authority. Concurrent urban growth and repeated natural drought conditions have also amplified this phenomenon.
Dr. Saadeh presented two lectures at AUB, as part of the Research and Policy Forum on...
Research and Policy Memo #4 | May 2009
Water Mismanagement Responsible for High Levels of Saline and Chloride in Greater Beirut GroundwaterMark Saadeh
Intrusion in the coastal aquifers of Greater Beirut has largely been a direct consequence of decades of water mismanagement – exacerbated by a civil war lasting more than fifteen years, according to Dr Mark Saadeh, consultant to the Litani River Authority. Concurrent urban growth and repeated natural drought conditions have also amplified this phenomenon.
Dr. Saadeh presented two lectures at AUB, as part of the Research and Policy Forum on...
Research and Policy Memo #3 | February 2009
Multi-Faceted Mitigation Can Reduce Risk of Complete Collapse of Arab World’s Water, Food, and Land SystemsGeorge J. Nasr
Shifts in trade and transport patterns due to global warming may cut off Arab countries from food and water, affecting them more than developed countries. This is only one of many urgent implications of climate change on food, water, and land in the Arab world - as outlined by George Nasr during a lecture at the American University of Beirut.
“Cross-border mobilization and immediate investment in research and development would...
