ABSTRACT
Chapter Four provides a perspective on environmental sustainability politics as a resource for generating domestic authoritarian legitimation in Morocco. Beginning with an analysis of central narratives in Morocco’s environmental discourse as imparted through the speeches of King Mohammed VI, the chapter gives further evidence of the instrumentalization of environmental politics by analysing green lighthouse projects, such as forest management, the ban of plastic bags, the work done by the Mohammed VI Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, Morocco’s environmental police, and the Kingdom’s renewable energy turn.
