Project Overview
This website is dedicated to the project on climate change in the GCC region. Climate change challenges are particularly relevant for the Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC). GCC countries are fossil fuel producing countries, because of that they are prone to the risks associated with climate change. This project aims to support policy makers in addressing the challenges posed by climate change for a sustainable development agenda in the region in general and specifically to foster Qatar’s aspirations to implement its national visions 2030. The main goals that the project aims to achieve are to estimate the impacts of climate change on the GCC economies, both in the short and the long terms, on numerous economic and financial variables such as economic growth, inflation, banking and financial systems, government budgets, labor market among others and to produce real time forecast of such an impacts on both the economic and financial sides of the economy. The project will also provide the GCC policy makers with information supporting the implementation of their economic and financial policies.
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