The report provides an overview of Lebanon’s greenhouse gas emissions per sector, and analyses the impacts of the country’s projected climatic changes on several economic, social and environmental sectors.
IFI Report | January 2011
The National Economic, Environment and Development Studies (NEEDS) for Climate Change Project (Final Report) Lebanon Nadim Farajalla, Marcus Marktanner, Leila Dagher, and Philippe Zgheib
Climate change has become an accepted reality. Its impacts have been recorded and documented throughout the world. The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) in Belgium has recorded 39 climatologic disasters1 for Western Asia since 1969. Twelve disasters were recorded in the year 2000 alone. The majority of these disasters were droughts (16), followed by extreme...
UNDP, through the CEDRO project, and the Ministry of Energy & Water published the first version of the "National Wind Atlas of Lebanon" which will create a growing momentum in Lebanon towards strengthening and developing the renewable energy sector in the country.
The State and Trends of the Lebanese Environment report provides an overview of the current condition of natural resources and environmental management in the country. Furthermore, it gives an analysis of past and future developments across multiple different sectors.
This publication is a compilation of reports prepared by group of civil society organizations in light of the review of Lebanon under the first-cycle of Universal Periodic Review (2010).The booklet includes the report reviewing conditions of economic and social rights in Leban
This brochure elaborates on the achievements of the UNDP’s 4 portfolios in Lebanon: Democratic Governance, Poverty & Social Development, Environment & Energy, and Crisis Prevention & Recovery.
نبذة مختصرة عن دراسة | آب 2009
(الوضع الحالي للبحوث والسياسات المتعلقة بتغير المناخ في المشرق العربي: حالة الأردن (نبذة مختصرةمنار فياض
عقد معهد عصام فارس للسياسات العامة والشؤون الدولية في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت ورشة عمل مغلقة حول تغير المناخ والمياه وعملية صنع السياسات في منطقة المشرق العر في شهر آب /أغسطس 2009
حضر ورشة العمل كبار الخبراء في مجال المياه والصرف الصحي، وتم تسليط الضوء على العديد من البلدان من خلال دراسة حالتها. يركز هذا الملخص الذي اعدته منار الفياض من الجامعة الأردنية على حالة الأردن
نبذة مختصرة عن دراسة | آب 2009
(الوضع الحالي للبحوث والسياسات المتعلقة بتغير المناخ في المشرق العربي: حالة الأردن (نبذة مختصرةمنار فياض
عقد معهد عصام فارس للسياسات العامة والشؤون الدولية في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت ورشة عمل مغلقة حول تغير المناخ والمياه وعملية صنع السياسات في منطقة المشرق العر في شهر آب /أغسطس 2009
حضر ورشة العمل كبار الخبراء في مجال المياه والصرف الصحي، وتم تسليط الضوء على العديد من البلدان من خلال دراسة حالتها. يركز هذا الملخص الذي اعدته منار الفياض من الجامعة الأردنية على حالة الأردن
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptations and Policy-Making Process: Palestine as a Case Study (English Summary) 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...
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
Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region: An Assessment of Implications for Water Resources, Regional State of Awareness and Preparedness, and the Road Ahead (Presentation)Antoine Hreiche
This presentation provides an assessment of the implications for water resources in the LNA region.
Presentation Outline:
Water Resources Status
North Africa’s Climates
Climate Change adds new complexity
Impacts
What can be done?
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region: An Assessment of Implications for Water Resources, Regional State of Awareness and Preparedness, and the Road Ahead (Full Text)Hamed Assaf
It is now widely acknowledged that climate change is fast approaching us and many assert that it is already underway. Are we ready for it?
The bad news is that the Levant and North Africa (LNA) region is projected by most climate general circulation models (GCMs) to be the most severally impacted region in the world as it is expected to undergo severe water scarcity...
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change in the Levant and North Africa Region: An Assessment of Implications for Water Resources, Regional State of Awareness and Preparedness, and the Road Ahead (English Summary)Hamed Assaf
Climate change is now a well-documented fact. It is acknowledged by scientists and governments world-wide and is considered to be already on its way. The LNA (Levant and North Africa) region is one of the most affected regions and most vulnerable to climate change. The questions remain though, ’are we ready?’ ‘What is currently known about the issues relating to...
Region-Specific Study | August 2009
Climate Change, Water and the Policy-Making Process in the Levant and North Africa; The Syria Case (English Summary)Abdallah Droubi
At a closed workshop held by the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs in August 2009, leading water experts tackled the issue of climate change with a specific regard to Syria. The Middle East is considered to be the world’s most water-stressed regions where the average temperature over the Mediterranean has increased from 1.5 to 4 degrees Celcius in the last 100 years, and drought events are...
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...
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
Syria: Climate Change, Water and the Policy-Making Process in the Levant and North Africa (Full Text)Abdallah Droubi
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) is one of the most renowned publishers of internationally acclaimed research on global climate change. Its recent Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water (IPCC Working Group II, 2008) outlines some general statements that are relevant for the Middle East region – such as, “many semi-arid and arid areas (for example, the Mediterranean basin) are particularly exposed to the impacts of...
نبذة مختصرة عن دراسة | آب 2009
(تغير المناخ: التأثيرات والتكيف وعملية صنع السياسات: فلسطين كحالة دراسية (نبذة مختصرة بالعربيةزياد أ. ميمي و مايكل مايسونو مارك زيتون
إن تغير المناخ العالمي الناتج عن العمليات الطبيعية والأنشطة البشرية هو موضوع مثير للقلق والاهتمام في جميع أنحاء العالم. ويتوقع أن تؤثّر ظاهرة "الاحتباس الحراري" بشكل كبير على الموارد المائية. وهكذا، يبدو أن تأثير تغير المناخ يأتي كعنصر إضافي على رأس عدد كبير من المشاكل القائمة المتصلة بالمياه. ستقوم هذه الورقة بتحديد الجهات الفاعلة الرئيسية المعنية بتغير المناخ وتقييم الآثار المحتملة لتغير المناخ واستعراض المعلومات المتاحة بشأن...
