Climate change, environmental degradation and renewable energy

The Middle East Post‐Petroleum: Averting the Storm

“…"The shift in gravity in Mediterranean water cooperation," Michael Mason writes, "from UN-led hard-law to EU-driven soft-law processes has at the same time imported the slow, hesitant pace of European Neighborhood Policy in the region, favoring a lowest common denominator of (technical) collaboration and not challenging regional wielders of geopolitical power (e.g., Israel and Turkey), who are generating transboundary inequities in freshwater allocation." 7 The major constraint to environmental effectiveness, however, stems from rapidly growing pollution sources -fueled in part by urbanization, industrialization and population growth in southern Mediterra-nean countries. Additionally, the political elites in these countries lack economic or political incentives, or even capacity, to restrain growth.…”