Researchers, Civil Society And Government Must Combine Forces To Offset Climate Change’S Expected Impact On Multiple Sectors In The Arab World - Ifi Research And Policy Memo #1

Research and Policy Memo #1 | June 2008
Researchers, Civil Society and Government Must Combine Forces to Offset Climate Change’s Expected Impact on Multiple Sectors in the Arab World  Nadim Farajalla
Climate change will impact on at least seven distinct sectors throughout the Middle East, and a coalition of actors in society must work together quickly to minimize the negative consequences that might occur. This was the main theme of a recent lecture by Dr. Nadim Farajalla of the American University of Beirut (AUB), faculty director of the new Research and Policy Forum on Climate Change and the Environment in the Arab World.
The climate change forum is one of several new programs launched this year by AUB’s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI). Farajalla’s presentation inaugurated a Spring lecture series on climate change and the Arab world by seven different scholars, activists and officials. All the lectures are accessible on the IFI website.