A “blue-green deal” for the Middle East
By Gidon Bromberg, Nada Majdalani, and Yana Abu Taleb
The Economist
World Ahead 2022
Although the Middle East peace process might be blocked, the path remains open to building trust by achieving progress on the environment in 2022. Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians can unite to fight our common climate-change Armageddon.
Call it a “green-blue deal”.
The “green” part of our green-blue deal targets cleaning up Middle Eastern energy supplies to reduce climate-changing emissions.
The “blue” part of our green-blue deal aims to bring water security to our parched region.