Great Expectations: Arab Youth’s Sustainability Priorities
- Young people in the Arab world are particularly concerned about environmental issues.
- Young Arabs, particularly women, are leading more sustainable lifestyles as a way to scale up their efforts to tackle climate change.
- Corporate climate action and accountability is a crucial piece of the net-zero puzzle.
The report uses the terms “MENA” and “Arab world” interchangeably. The findings are based on a literature review, a survey and a series of three workshops conducted by Economist Impact between September and November 2022. The survey gathered insights from 1,100 Arabs between the ages of 18 and 35 in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The workshops gathered insights from 32 Arab sustainability leaders, young professionals and entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35 from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Tunisia and the UAE.
In 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that around one in eight people globally were living with a mental disorder. Positive mental health is vital to individual and public health, and society in general.
The Global Councils on Sustainable Development Goals is a unique interdisciplinary network of decision makers from governments, international organizations, academia, charitable organizations, and the private sector, which work together to oversee in
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