Capacity Building for Climate Action in Palestine

A National Seminar on Climate Change was organised on January 26, 27 and 28 by the ClimaSouth project in Ramallah under the Patronage of H. E. Chairperson of the Environmental Quality Authority, Eng. Adalah Al Attirah.

H. E. Chairperson of Environmental Quality Authority Eng. Adalah Al Attirah. Alatyrh opened the National Workshop on Climate Change. This event is aiming at raising the level of knowledge and awareness on the subject of climate change at the international and national level and targeting members of the National Committee on Climate Change, stakeholders and country partners.

This event was aiming at enabling the Palestinian Authority to improve the management of the climate changes issues by facilitating the dialogue among relevant stakeholders. Structured to raise awareness and train staff on climate actions with the view to make the best use of partner’s supports and successfully envisage medium and long-term strategies to address climate change impacts in the relevant sectors for the country (primarily water & agriculture).

The seminar offered a wide range of presentations covering both adaptation and mitigation issues to all the member of the Climate Change Committee of Palestine, starting with a key session on the science of climate change by Prof Imad Khatib (Polytechnic University, Hebron and Director of the Palestine Academy for Science and Technology) and its regional impacts by Prof. J-P van Ypersele (UCL Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Louvain la Neuve) and Vice President of the IPCC. All participants expressed their interest on those topics and shown readiness in exchanging point of views to further achieve concrete progress, including raising the level of interest of Senior policy makers at Government level. The Head of the EQA concluded that ‘Measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change are essential to achieve economic development in Palestine”.

This event was organised for EQA through the ClimaSouth Focal Point Nedal Katbeh-Bader, Minister Advisor for Climate Change, with the overall support of Ayman Hadj Daoud from the Palestinian Academy for Science and Technology, PALAST (Ramallah) .

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Mitigation & Adaptation in the Southern Mediterranean Region ClimaSouth

Module 1: climate change science and impacts

Introduction to climate science : global climate variability and change, findings of IPCC AR5

Prof Imad Khatib, Polytechnic University (Hebron) and Secretary General of PALAST Ramallah Palestine

Climate Change Projections for 2050/2100 and their Potential Impacts in the Middle East

Prof. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, UCL Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium; Vice President of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change