At a time when the land is suffocated by the burden of consumption and climate crises, parliaments can no longer remain just a guardian of texts and monitoring governments, but rather has become required to redefine its role, and expand the extent of its impact to include the global issues that affect the same life, and from here, the importance of the transformation witnessed by the Bahraini parliament today begins, not only in its obtaining the certificate of environmental management (14001: 2015 ISO) In his adoption of the idea of the “Green Parliament” as an existential concept, institutional behavior, and an extended vision for the future.
The Green Parliament is not a cosmetic expression that is added to the dictionary of official speeches, but rather a national project stemming from parliamentary awareness, which transforms the environment from a side issue to one of the pillars of the legislative and administrative act, and when the Bahraini parliament takes this bold step, it not only declares its commitment to environmental standards, but also provides a new model of parliaments that the values that legislate it and apply what it calls within Its walls, and emphasizes that the council is still able to give qualitative giving, as it has the vision, support and integration between the bodies at the local level, while at the international level, it is a message that Bahrain has a parliament that speaks the language of the present and the future and is able to read global variables and translate them nationally, where the real challenge now in converting this achievement from a mural to an institutional culture, and from a single plan to a path that is based And the supreme national interest.
This shift reflects a development in the structure of the Bahraini legislative mind, which has always been a mirror of the major transformations in the state, today it has become an integral part of the environmental sustainability equation, driven by a lofty royal vision that believes that development is not real unless it is reconciled with the environment, and is rooted in the moral conscience of institutions, and what draws attention to this achievement is that it did not come as a matter During a studied strategic plan, comprehensive environmental evaluation, and an integration between administrative and intellectual work within the legislative institution.
What the House of Representatives today is not measured by an international certificate, but rather with an institutional culture that grows inside it, and carries with it a promise with a broader shift in the Bahraini parliamentary work, towards more institutional maturity, transparency and community participation, is a milestone in which the local converge in the world, the technician of the values, and the institution of humanity, a moment that tells us that Parliament is no longer a preserve of laws Institutional values, a platform for embodying a new collective awareness, more green … and more life.
* Media and academic researcher
