The working paper “Mobilizations and Climate Emergency in the Southern Neighborhood and Turkey” focuses on two of the most relevant and pressing phenomena in the European Union’s Southern Neighborhood and Spain: on the one hand, climate change as one of the greatest threats to the socio-political and socio-economic sustainability of these countries and societies; and on the other hand, social mobilizations as one of the main ways of expressing these societies’ angst, as evident in the 2010-11 uprisings and thereafter.

The document consists of chapters focusing on case studies about certain Southern Neighborhood countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Lebanon, as well as Turkey) with sections on the current state of affairs and basic concepts. These various analyses take a look at how climate initiatives have developed in different contexts, focusing on the role played by the political system in each particular case, on the existence of mobilizations at different levels, and on how issues beyond the purely environmental are articulated, like those revolving around the concept of “climate justice.” The next COP28 will be held in the Egyptian city of Sharm Al Shaikh, and the Arab countries face a challenge that will necessarily involve their populations, while also helping give focus to transnational cooperation in the region and with the EU.