Climate Governance Under Occupation:Water,Energy & Agriculture in Palestine

The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center invite you to a presentation and discussion with Joy Arkeh, Research Assistant in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and co-author of the Carnegie case study, Palestine’s Climate Change Planning Faces Its Limits.

The event will take place on Thursday, July 2, 2026, at 6:30 PM at The Jerusalem Fund in Washington, DC.

The report examines how Palestine’s climate planning is shaped by rising temperatures, declining precipitation, shrinking water access, food insecurity, energy dependence, and the destruction of infrastructure. It also places these challenges within the realities of Israeli occupation, including restrictions on land access, water resources, energy systems, imports, mobility, and reconstruction.

Arkeh will discuss the report’s findings on Palestine’s efforts to build and finance climate governance frameworks through its ministerial legislation, Nationally Determined Contribution and National Adaptation Plan, as well as the limits facing those plans in practice. The conversation will address water access in Gaza and the West Bank, the vulnerability of rain-fed agriculture, dependence on imported electricity, the role of renewable energy, and the question of how reconstruction can incorporate climate resilience.