Climate Policy and Politics in the Middle East

Aisha Al-Sarihi is a political scientist with over a decade of research expertise in the policy, politics and governance of climate change and energy transition. She is a non-resident fellow at Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme, London, UK, the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington DC (AGSIW), US, and the Middle East Council on Global Affairs (MECGA), Qatar. She was a former Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute of the National University of Singapore, Singapore.Michael Mason is Professor of Environmental Geography at LSE, UK, where he served as Director of the Middle East Centre from 2018-2025. He is the author/editor of six books, including co-editor of The Untold Story of the Golan Heights (I.B. Tauris, 2023).

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviations and Acronyms1 IntroductionAisha Al-Sarihi, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Michael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKPART I: Energy Transition2 From Grey to Green? Navigating the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition in the Middle East and North AfricaTobias Zumbraegel, University of Heidelberg, GermanyPART II: Climate Finance3 Climate Finance in the MENA Region: Current State and Possible Ways ForwardMoustafa Bayoumi, Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy, United Arab EmiratesPART III: Food-Water-Energy Nexus4 Food Security, Climate, and Conflict – Where Does the MENA Region Stand?Nadim Farajalla, Chief Sustainability Officer, Office for Sustainability, Lebanese American University, Lebanon5 The Nexus of Climate Change and Water Security in the Middle EastMohammed Mahmoud, The Climate and Water Program, Middle East Institute, USA6 Towards a Sustainable Water Sector in the GCC: The Role of the Private SectorNaser AlsayedPART IV: Urban Development7 Arab Climate UrbanismMichael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, Deen Sharp, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Noura WahbyPART V: Education and Young People8 Climate-Proofing for Development: The Impact of Climatic Disasters on the Education System, OmanSuad Al-Manji, Oman’s Ministry of Education, Oman, Hajar Mahfoodh, and Zainab Mahfoodh9 The Role of Youth and Non-State Actors for Climate Change Action in Gulf CountriesNeeshad Shafi and Mark Ortiz10 ConclusionAisha Al-Sarihi, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Michael Mason, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Al Sarihi and Mason have put together a useful and illuminating volume to understand the diversity of the challenges and the wide scope of policy solutions facing climate policy in the Middle East. The chapter authors represent some of the best thinking on how to approach the risks of climate change across the region.