The World Bank Group’s Roadmap for Climate Action in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), which runs from 2021 to 2025, aims to drive climate action and a green recovery in the region. MENA is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change, enduring extremely high temperatures, desertification, water scarcity, degraded marine, coastal ecosystems, and high levels of fossil fuel dependency.
The roadmap outlines four key transformation areas to build low-carbon, resilient societies:
Egypt will host the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2022 amid international human rights objections.