Climate Change: A Global Health Emergency

Fall 2022/Winter 2023 / Q & A

COP27 Youth Envoy Omnia El Omrani discussed the importance of approaching the climate crisis with human health in mind and co-creating effective policy alongside those most impacted

Inclusion and Implementation at COP27: Just the Beginning

Spring 2023 / Midan

Achieving a COP of inclusion and implementation….

When Consensus Is Reached

Spring 2023 / Essays

The outcome of the UN climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh gives hope for climate justice, but leaves behind many challenges for the upcoming COP28 in Dubai

A Bank of Actions: Making Good on Losses and Damages

Spring 2023 / Essays

In the seat of the COP27 Presidency, Egypt has the chance to reframe the Conference of the Parties as a forum for action based on accountability

COP27 and the Sustainable City: Global Climate Solution or Mirage?

Spring 2023 / Essays

The COP27 meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh highlighted the gap between climate policy goals and climate reality. In the MENA region and globally, cities are key to advancing climate goals

Good to the Last Drop

Spring 2023 / Essays

Why nature-based solutions and adaptive management may hold the key to water conservation in the MENA region

Lessons from COP27: Between Progress and Challenges

Spring 2023 / Essays

While COP27 made progress in the areas of mitigation, adaptation, financing, and incorporating a gender, youth, and human rights perspective, Mexico is putting forward various initiatives to tackle remaining challenges

COP27: Kick the Climate Can Down the Road Another Year

Spring 2023 / Essays

With one COP after another kicking the can down the road, the prospective loss and damage fund is threatened by the same diversionary tactics. To succeed in the climate battle, we need transformative institutions and courageous leadership

Fuelling Transition or Entropy?

Spring 2023 / Essays

Reflections on the politics of climate change, fossil fuels, the destruction of trust, and the narratives we consume

Hearing the Global South in Climate Convos

Spring 2023 / Essays

If progress on climate change is to be made, voices from the most vulnerable Global South and African countries must be heard and included in conversations at climate conferences

Reflections on COP27: How Egypt and India Can Work Together

Spring 2023 / Essays

In the face of the global climate crisis, India and Egypt must continue to lead the Global South in pursuing equitable climate action and building on the outcomes of the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties in Sharm El-Sheikh

All Policy is Climate Policy

Spring 2023 / Q & A

Scholar and activist Jennie Stephens discusses the future of climate policy, emphasizing a “people-first” perspective and the need for larger societal structural transformation

Timeline: Environmental Diplomacy from Rio to COP27

Spring 2023 / Timelines

Key moments in environmental diplomacy from the historic “Earth Summit” held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 up to COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in November, 2022.

Why Climate Journalism Must be Mainstreamed in the Arab World

Summer 2022 / Essays

While the issue of climate change journalism is particularly relevant to the Arab World today, as the upcoming COP27 and COP28 will be hosted in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates respectively, climate reporting in the region still lacks a critical lens that reflects the issue’s urgency