Reports

Key message: CBAM is not yet a direct tax on most raw agricultural exports, but it is already reshaping the cost, data and competitiveness environment around Arab agri-food value chains …

There is a familiar way to read regional escalation: watch oil prices, track shipping lanes, and estimate the hit to growth. But that lens is now too narrow. What the …

Executive Summary Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest-growing waste streams globally, driven by rapid technological change, rising consumption of electronic devices, and increasingly short product lifecycles. Countries in …

Executive Summary The Iran war has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a food-security chokepoint. FAO warns that 20–45 percent of key agrifood inputs depend on passage through Hormuz and …

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence is becoming a foundational capability for service delivery, industrial upgrading, and public-sector modernization. For the Arab region, the transition to AI-intensive economies intersects with three structural …

Core Thesis: National Adaptation Plans are most useful not when they only describe climate hazards, but when they show how adaptation choices affect people, livelihoods, inequality, fiscal space, and implementation …

Introduction & Context The rapid growth of electric vehicles (EVs) supports global decarbonization but creates a parallel challenge: managing end-of-life EV batteries. These batteries are material-intensive and contain valuable, often …

Executive overview The current Iran war has triggered an acute energy-security shock centred on the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical oil and Liquefied …

Sustainable entrepreneurship is increasingly recognized as a cornerstone of economic diversification, job creation, and environmental resilience in the Arab region. However, Across the Arab region, enabling sustainable and circular entrepreneurship …