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2019-04-29
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2022-01-19
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  1. “Finally, we call on the Security Council to recognize globally that climate change is a threat to peace, within the meaning of Article 39 of the Charter of the United Nations. Let me also thank the EcoPeace staff in Amman, Ramallah and Tel Aviv, our Board and the members of EcoPeace’s International Advisory Committee. I thank you, Madam President, for this opportunity to present our civil society perspectives before the Security Council.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  2. “The same Green Blue Deal rationale can now bring water security for Israelis and Palestinians, build confidence and keep alive prospects for peace. We ask the Security Council and relevant United Nations agencies to embrace a climate-resilience perspective and to prioritize Israeli-Palestinian climate security by calling on the parties to advance new arrangements for natural water allocation and pollution control. We invite foreign ministers to follow the lead of the Foreign Minister of Finland, His Excellency Mr. Pekka Haavisto, to help create a coalition of the willing in order to advance a Green Blue Deal of climate resilience in the Middle East. We call on the East Mediterranean Gas Forum to widen its mandate to include renewable energy and climate concerns in order to be a primary vehicle to advance climate security in our region.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  3. “Those are our recommendations to the Security Council. Since Ms. Majdalani, Ms. Abu Taleb and I briefed the Security Council three years ago (see S/PV.8517), much has changed. We outlined then a vision of how Governments could promote climate resilience by harnessing the sea through increased desalinated water, to be powered by harnessing the sun through large-scale investment in solar energy. Within less than a year since the release of our Green Blue Deal report, much due to the opportunities and changing circumstances described above, the Governments of Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent to establish a large-scale solar facility in Jordan that will sell electricity to Israel in exchange for desalinated water sales to Jordan. The deal represents a landmark climate-resilience agreement for our region.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  4. “In recent months, coalition partners in Israel have reached out to the Palestinian Authority, with a desire to increase cooperation in the environment and water sectors. If implemented, such cooperation will improve the reality on the ground and build confidence essential to advancing peace efforts. Led by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel has identified the climate crisis as an issue of national priority. Israel has expressed a desire to work closely with the Biden Administration and Secretary Kerry in the global fight against climate change. Most recently, President Herzog created a national climate forum, and a working group on regional cooperation was established, which I have the honour of co-chairing. The link between the climate crisis and regional security is also acknowledged by the Israeli security community.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  5. “The climate crisis further contributes to Palestinian water insecurity. At EcoPeace, we are determined to help our Governments and peoples understand that the climate crisis must lead to increased cooperation — Israelis and Palestinian experiencing first-hand the impact of the climate crisis. Climate change is no longer seen in our region as theoretical. It is recognized by all as an immediate threat to water, health and national security interests. As detailed by Ms. Majdalani before me, the combination of conflict, inter management issues and the climate crisis is significantly contributing to Palestinian water insecurity, loss of livelihood and animosity towards Israel. The new coalition Government in Israel presents new opportunities.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  6. “The sewage from Gaza released into the Mediterranean leads to the intermittent closure of Israel’s southernmost desalination plants, directly impacting the Israeli water supply. In order to protect its citizens, Israel unilaterally builds sewage treatment plants on its side. However, Israel deducts the cost of sewage treatment, including the capital cost of construction, from Palestinian taxes. In 2019, those deduction totalled over 110 million shekels. The deductions weaken the Palestinian Authority and create a disincentive to find sanitation solutions on the Palestinian side. As indicated in a 2017 report by Israel’s State Comptroller’s Office, the current water and sanitation arrangements fail both sides to effectively protect shared natural waters. That failure poses a threat to the gains made in Israel’s water security.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  7. “In addition, Israel is a global leader in treating and reusing wastewater for agriculture, creating water security for its farmers. But while Israel has achieved a high level of water security, the conflict-related sanitation crisis in the West Bank and Gaza threatens the gains that are being made. In the West Bank, over 60 million cubic metres of Palestinian-sourced raw and poorly treated sewage are released annually into the environment, contaminating scarce groundwater. Israeli and Palestinian communities that live in close proximity to the 12 cross-border streams suffer from sever public health concerns. Similarly, the conflict-related sanitation crisis in Gaza risks the health and welfare of Palestinians and Israelis alike.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  8. “We highlight to all that, from an environmental perspective, we are fully dependent on each another. Working together, therefore, is not doing a favour to the other, but an issue of self-interest and mutual gain. Our Green Blue Deal report calls on our Governments to act cooperatively on water issues under a climate-crisis paradigm, rather than continuing to hold water issues hostage to the politics of final status. By advancing the Green Blue Deal, we can achieve water security and climate resilience for Israelis, Palestinians and all in our region. The status quo threatens water security and public health. Israel is well known for its leadership in the water sector and its ability to do advanced climate adaptation on water issues. Over 70 per cent of Israel’s drinking water is now sourced from desalination plants.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  9. “Mr. Bromberg: Today we have a window of opportunity to advance new Israeli-Palestinian water arrangements that can improve livelihoods, foster confidence-building and advance peace. The looming climate crisis demands that we do so urgently. Israel’s leadership in the water sector, the dire impact of climate change on Palestinian fresh water availability and the new coalition Government in Israel all combine to create a unique context in which decisions could be taken towards conflict resolution, cooperation and trust-building in the water and climate sector. A long-standing impediment to progress in Israeli- Palestinian water issues is the zero-sum mindset that sees one side’s gain as the other side’s loss. That is why, at EcoPeace Middle East, we work on the ground with schools, municipalities, young professionals and decision-makers.”

    2022-01-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8950 (2022) · source

  10. “We call on the Security Council to invite all the relevant United Nations agencies and international organizations, including the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee for the Coordination of the International Assistance to Palestinians, to help facilitate the implementation of those objectives.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  11. “Our 25 years of partnership tell us that good water, and not necessarily good fences, make good neighbours. In the spirit of Passover, Easter and the forthcoming celebration of Ramadan, let us set water free to give life and hope to our region. We call on the Security Council to urge our three Governments - Israel, Palestine and Jordan - to advance cooperation together on water and the environment, including the rehabilitation of the Jordan River and the Dead Sea, meeting Palestinian water rights and needs, and implement a water-energy exchange for our shared future in the face of climate change, all in the context of a two-State solution.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  12. “Moving from competition to cooperation over critical natural resources as a means to help create political stability is not a new idea. The post-Second World War coal and steel agreement of continental Europe, led by former enemies France and Germany, laid the foundation for stability in Europe. Harnessing the sea and the sun shared by Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians can be our engine for achieving peace and stability. Nada Majdalani, Yana Abu Taleb, myself and all of our staff in Amman, Ramallah and Tel Aviv carry with us the voices of young students, residents and mayors. Together we have educated ourselves and the communities in which we work. We have done the research, and we have shown leadership. We have partners for peace on all sides.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  13. “The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been the regional leader in that regard, investing in large-scale solar energy, owing to its vast desert landscapes. The combination of manufactured water coming from the Israeli and Palestinian coast and sold to Jordan, powered by solar electricity produced in Jordan and sold to Israel and Palestine, is a potential geopolitical game changer. Such an exchange can guarantee water and energy security for all, responds to climate insecurity and creates healthy interdependencies between our economies and societies. Last year, with German funding, EcoPeace led a regional delegation of decision makers and business leaders to Europe to advance the project. Thanks to Swedish funding, a pilot solar project is in the planning stages in Jordan today to sell green electricity for the first time across the border.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  14. “The availability of large quantities of manufactured water, complimenting natural water, makes the fair share of naturalwaterbetweenlsraelis andPalestinians attainable now. Because of climate change, Mediterranean desalinated water will be pumped by Israel into the Sea of Galilee to guarantee water quality for the lake and fresh water supplies to Jordan, and could be part of the rehabilitation of the Jordan River - a river holy to half of humankind. Based on Government policies, on the one hand, of increased desalination and, on the other, community-led advocacy for the river, for the first time in 50 years some fresh water flows again out of the Sea of Galilee into the Jordan River. In just the past five years, technological advances in solar power is allowing our region to harness the sun.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  15. “That was the mindset of how water was negotiated in the Oslo Accords in the mid 1990s. Water was left unresolved as a final-status issue because coming to an agreement over sharing scarce natural water was difficult and would produce winners and losers. But today the advancements in water technologies this century, much of which is led by Israeli innovation, present real opportunities. The utilization of treated waste water for agriculture and the development of desalination technology means that water is under less constraints as a resource. Today 70 per cent of the drinking water in Israel comes from desalination, and half of the agriculture grown is grown with treated wastewater.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  16. “Quite innocently, those kids and their parents started to ask their mayors "Why is the Jordan River so polluted, and what must we do with the other side to clean up the river?" Empowered by the youth and their parents to take action for the benefit of their communities, the mayors jumped into the river together not as best friends, but as leaders, advocating to national Governments on all sides that only a rehabilitated river would bring economic opportunities to their residents. Twentieth-century assumptions that dictated water diplomacy led us down a path ofconflict and competition over water. We were indeed wholly dependent on natural water during the past century, and therefore each side fought over every drop. That was the mindset that led to the demise of the Jordan River and the drastic reduction in size of the Dead Sea.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source

  17. “Mr. Bromberg: In my 25 years with EcoPeace Middle East, my most memorable activity was to jump into the Jordan River, together with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian mayors. Together we made a big splash but, like today, we also made an important statement. To get the mayors to literally jump into the river, it took us five years of planning. We developed an education programme called "Good Water Neighbours" - please remember that - that worked in schools on all sides of the Jordan River, educating young kids about their water reality and that of their neighbours. They saw a river with little flow and full of pollution, and, for the first time, they began to understand the impact of conflict on water.”

    2019-04-29 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8517 (2019) · source