Climate Vulnerability and Resilience in Middle East - Euro-Med Perspective

The article discussing the question of 'how can be achieved sustainability and resilience in conflict regions amplified under threats of climate crisis, as in Middle East? via the concept of "Moving the money from war to peace", targeting of the reallocation of resources from military expenditure towards initiatives that promote peace, social welfare, and environmental.

Findings of a study by Tahadhari Center examined data on military expenditures in relation to GDP, against the performance of those countries in the fields of the environmental policy and the state of resilience.

The analysis was carried out per country, between groups of countries of Northern and Western Europe (Germany, Sweden, Norway, France and Belgium), the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Saudi Arabia), and Western Asia (Turkey, Armenia, Russia and Ukraine).

An inverse correlation was found between a country's military expenditure and environmental performance and resilience. The military expenditure in European countries is relatively small while Environmental Performance is high. The Environmental index in our case - offers a policy tool in support of efforts to meet the targets of the UN SDGs and to move society towards a sustainable future.

In the Middle East countries the Military Expenditure is about 4 times more than the relative allocation of European countries. The Environmental Performance is lower. As for the State of Resilience, In European countries it is about 1.5 times higher than in the countries of the Middle East.

In practice, to achieving SDGs in suggesting to focus on the dynamics of the inclusion and involvement of women, not only in decision-making processes, but as leaders of initiatives in the field, the same those initiatives of economic development and environmental initiatives, for energy and climate resilience that keeps the promise to lead to prosperity and stability and hopefully leading the peace processes.