ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses shifts from the international climate security discourse to the discourse on the climate impacts in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. The Euro-Mediterranean region Since the EU's neighbours include some of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The EU's regional politics in the Mediterranean have been shaped by two competing security discourses. First, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP) initiated by the so-called Barcelona convention in 1995 builds upon a discourse of cooperative security, which evolved in Europe following the success of the OSCE. On the contrary, the emerging climate security discourse on the Mediterranean clearly had a status quo bias in that it stabilized the existing governmental landscape in the region and provided further rationales for its preservation in the sense of a defensive hegemony. Environmental discourse on the southern Mediterranean from the beginning framed it as a marginal ecological space, deteriorated by the irrational use of resources by local populations.
