Abstract
This article seeks to provide the rationale behind Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Sudani’s call at the United Nations for the formation of a negotiating group within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process that brings together all member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Iraq, and Iran. This article argues that these countries would benefit doubly from such an arrangement, because it would help them better address the direct effects of climate change, on the one hand, and to better address the effects of the measures taken to address climate change, which will affect them as fossil fuel producers, on the other hand. The article cites the example of the Independent Alliance of Latin America and the Caribbean (AILAC), which could serve as a model for this prospective new grouping.
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Yasseen, Fareed
(2023)
"The Gulf: An Appeal for More Coordinated Action on Climate Change,"
New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 35:
Iss.
2, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/nejpp/vol35/iss2/10
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