While preparing the country for the increasing challenges is obviously a multi-disciplinary task, Israel’s Environmental Protection Minister is key to the effort. In a recent interview, she indicated just how broad the scope of her work is: “We are working on new climate legislation for the first time in the Israeli parliament. We are working on the series of implementation plans, how to take the low carbon economy governmental declaration and make it a reality in sectors of energy, transportation, waste, agriculture. So we are serious.”