Program

Lead Organizations

The World Bank, Plan Bleu, CMI, GIZ.

Partners

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (RCREEE), Municipalities of Beirut, Rabat and Tunis, Ministries of Environment of Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia, The World Bank, French Development Agency, European Investment Bank, French Ministry of the Environment.

Challenges

Energy demands in the MENA region are rising substantially, while efforts to meet these demands remain too limited. The Region, which lacks major investments in complex infrastructure, calls for a strengthening in environmental guidelines and standards in order to handle them. The region also suffers from insufficient consideration of regional based publications in climate change impact evaluation. The Green Growth program responds to all of these important factors.

Program Objective

To disseminate relevant knowledge and engage in consultations with relevant actors fostering integration of environmental issues, into sectoral and development policies.

Selected Results

Innovative Approaches and Solutions Generated / Improved Network or Contacts With Other Experts: The dissemination of the 2013 World Bank Report: Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience) in a high-level event at the CMI in December 2014.