Lebanon

Yusra Bitar is a former research fellow at the Arab Reform Initiative committed to studying and writing about environmental issues in Middle Eastern and North African communities. Her background paper emphasizes Lebanon's disproportionate warming and climate-related crises which are exacerbated by an economic crisis and uncertain global affairs. She applies the Just Environmental Transition idea to changing Lebanon's social and ecological landscapes, establishing a regenerative economy and integrating feminist values into its central system. Some examples include demilitarization, universal social services, sustainable agriculture, and government accountability. Bitar recommends that Civil Society Organizations coordinate and create unified information about the Just Environmental Transition for it to be implemented successfully in Lebanon.