10 A tougher climate in the Eastern Mediterranean planning and management capability. Entities which lack the attributes of sovereignty form a third group: the Palestinian Authority is administratively weak and unable to exercise sovereign control over Palestinian territory; and in northern Cyprus, the self-proclaimed “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus”is recognized only by Turkey and lacks both institutional capacity and international legal status. This is the political and institutional context within which officials, development practi­tioners and analysts interviewed for this project were asked to consider the consequences of climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean.