It could intrude on COP28 in Dubai and affect the climate agenda in several key areas.It wasn’t supposed to be like this. A new era of de-escalation, calm, and normalization in the Middle East, the narrative went, was expected to lower tensions in a conflict-wracked region, giving local governments and civil society actors much-needed space to tackle current and looming challenges at home—most crucially the threat from global warming and the imperative of the green energy transition. Now, in the wake of the incursion into Israel by Hamas and the reprisal by Israeli military forces on Gaza, the Middle East climate agenda is likely to be buffeted and strained in several key areas.
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