What will Israel do if the Nile Delta becomes submerged from climate change?
Brainstorming at the Climate Change Mitigation Policy Workshop today at Ben-Gurion University. (Image courtesy of Ophir Shoham) In his opening remarks at the Climate Change Mitigation Policy Workshop at Ben-Gurion University today, Prof. Alon Tal, one of Israel’s most revered environmentalists, referred to the 20 or so people seated around the conference table as a “dream team” for environmental policy in Israel. Indeed, the workshop featured an all-star lineup of Israeli experts from academia, government, NGOs and the private sector. The initial reference point for the workshop was the McKinsey report commissioned by the Ministry of Environmental Protection last year, entitled “Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential in Israel.” Tal said the idea of convening this workshop came to him after realizing that the Israeli environmental community had yet to formulate a concerted response to this report. The workshop began with presentations from three international experts: Bracken Hendricks, a
