A unique NGO that has been pursuing Mideast peace for many years has proposed a promising new regional approach that blends water and energy, addressing at least one of the five outstanding issues in the long-running Oslo peace process. Learning to work together on water may help the region work together on the other issues, it says.

In December 2020, EcoPeace Middle East, an Israeli-Jordanian-Palestinian environmental NGO, published the “Green-Blue Deal for the Middle East,” a detailed plan that advocates for cross-border climate security and proposes creating ‘healthy interdependencies’ between the countries in the region.