Middle East

This brief highlights transboundary climate risks in the MENA region and why countries struggle to invest in systemic resilience. It evaluates adaptation finance, noting the limitations of European support, and offers recommendations for MENA policymakers, including increasing adaptation finance and decentralizing governance for better resilience.

In this one-off podcast mini-series, broadcaster Bola Mosuro talks to researchers, aid workers and herders about some of the new crises facing the drylands of Africa and the Middle East, and the dynamic ways in which people are responding to meet them.

This 2021 foresight report provides information about short- and medium-term climate-related risks and analyses these risks with regard to water, food, health and regional stability.

This foresight report provides information about short- and medium-term climate-related risks and analyses these risks with regard to water, food, health and regional stability.

This page brings together all the key publications (multiple languages) on Sustainable Mountain Development produced and/or funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and partners.

This report sets out the risks to food security in the Middle East and North Africa from climate change, and how these vulnerabilities interact with other key trends and sources of risk.

Photo © World Bank Project description This project assisted the World Bank in assessing the range of effective adaptation strategies...

Photo © World Bank Project description This project assisted the World Bank in assessing the range of effective adaptation strategies...

Photo by Phyllis Grifman It's been two months since we sent out the link to the weADAPT urban adaptation survey...

Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment (CIRCE) was an Integrated Project, funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme from 2007-2011.