ERF is pleased to announce a call for proposals on “ Mitigation and Adaptation to Impact of Climate change in MENA countries” Selected authors will present their papers during a workshop by June 2021. The MENA countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change disasters and their consequences given the fragility of their ecosystems, their heavy dependence on natural capital and the environment for survival and prosperity, the limited adaptive capacities of these countries to environmental shocks and the limited preparedness to mitigate these shocks. The physical vulnerability of these countries is particularly severe in low coastal lands (UAE, Egypt, Lebanon), harsh environments (those with large desert areas (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar)), those with fragile ecosystems (almost all of the Arab countries), and water stress problems (all Arab countries with the possible exception of Lebanon). This is further exacerbated by socioeconomic vulnerability as reflected by a high dependence on the production and export of natural resources and other environmentally sensitive commodities. This dependence on natural capital and environmental resources reduces their resilience and adaptive capacities to the consequences of climate change. It is here where an adaptation approach that jointly addresses both types of vulnerabilities in these countries is obviously required. Such an adaptation approach would require, in addition to the domestic effort, a parallel international effort focused on minimizing the impacts of response measures and strengthening the ecological resilience of these economies to cope with climate change and its related policies.