History Of Climate Change Negotiations And The Arab Countries: The Case Of Egypt

IFI’s Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program, launched in 2008, has been tracking and framing climate change international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - in particular to what pertains to Lebanon and Arab countries.
Key members of the program have attended nearly all the Conferences of the Parties (COP) as part of the official Lebanese delegation since COP 15 in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009. From this exposure, it has become apparent that literature on the history of the involvement of key Arab countries in the past 20 years of negotiations is non-existent.
This makes the development of any understanding of the role that Arab countries had played in the negotiations, if any, and how their positions have shifted throughout the years, very difficult.
With this knowledge gap in mind, the Climate Change and Environment in the Arab World Program has embarked on a research project aimed at developing and creating in a clear systematic manner a much-needed archive of Arab negotiations on climate change. A second goal of the project is to provide a guide for policy-makers and researchers of all positions and tracks taken by Arab countries within the UNFCCC negotiations.
The paper is the first output of this research project; we plan to publish more papers based on this project in the near future.