08 November, 2023 full report: https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/handle/10044/1/107370 summary: From boreal winter 2020 onwards, a large region in West Asia, encompassing the Fertile Crescent around the rivers Euphrates and Tigris as well as Iran has suffered from exceptionally low rains and elevated temperatures. The resulting 3-year drought has led to severe impacts on agriculture and access to […]

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 Nov 07,2023 AMMAN — The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation and the German Development Bank (KFW) on Tuesday signed two financing agreements worth 125 million euros to support Jordan’s water sector. The first agreement included a concessional loan of 75 million euros to support Jordan’s water sector development policy with its primary goal to […]

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David Waskow, Rebecca Carter, Preety Bhandari, Chikondi Thangata, Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, Ed Davey, Nathan Cogswell, Jamal Srouji, Nate Warszawski 06/11/2023 Floods recently wreaked havoc in Libya, damaging critical infrastructure and killing more than 6,000 people. Wildfires in Canada burned 18.5 million hectares, an area the size of Syria. September 2023 set “gobsmackingly bananas” heat records that unsettled climate scientists. […]

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7/11/2023 Dubai, 5/11/2023 The Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai hosted the seventeenth scientific conference of the Arab Society for Economic Research (ASFER) under the title “Climate Change and its Implications on Arab Economic Development.” Among the conference participants were Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, ASFER Chairman and UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt […]

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As the existential threat of climate change continues to intensify, the future of fossil fuels has been thrust into the international spotlight. Reducing hydrocarbon production and consumption, known as fossil fuel phase down, has gained traction in international climate talks during the last two years amid warnings that the window to avoid catastrophic warming is […]

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September 28, 2023. Orestes Morfín In the summer of 2022, flash flooding due to heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and southeast Iran killed well over 1,000 people. In this part of the world, the extreme shifts in weather between monsoon and dry season dictate subsistence cycles and financial livelihood, with accompanying risks […]

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October 9, 2023. Zeina Moneer Introduction: The Paris Agreement enables carbon trading One of the key outcomes of the 2021 U.N. Climate Change Conference (26th Conference of the Parties, COP26) meeting in Glasgow was the establishment of Article 6, which regulates carbon markets under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. The article indicates that “some Parties choose […]

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September 5, 2023. Achref Chibani Hydrogen has been touted as an energy solution for the future and a leading mitigation technology against climate change. The International Energy Agency, for instance, identifies green hydrogen as one of its “key pillars of decarbonizing the global energy system” while the United Nations Industrial Development Organization has described it as “the fuel of […]

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The British company’s new project with the UAE energy major is hoping to address those skeptical about the cost, efficacy and viability of carbon dioxide capture as a climate solution.  Jack Dutton November 8, 2023 LONDON — Back in 2009, Aniruddha Sharma protested on the streets of Copenhagen as part of the Indian Youth Climate […]

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24 October 2023 Tensions from the war in Gaza could help accelerate the move away from planet-warming fossil fuels like oil and gas and toward renewable energy, electric cars and heat pumps — similar to how sharp increases in the price of oil during the 1970s unleashed efforts to conserve fuel, the head of the […]

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As the nightmare continues, it may be too much to ask that we have sympathy for innocent Palestinians in Gaza. But I do. David Lehrer OCT 15, 2023 On Saturday morning, my wife Barbara got out of bed around 6:30 and turned on the television because of something she saw on her smartphone. I went […]

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Najib Saab. 29/10/2023 Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to help collect project proposals aimed at supporting the “environmental human rights of indigenous communities.” At first glance, I thought that the genocide against Palestinians was the motivation for this initiative, before realizing that the native people belonging to one of the oldest civilizations in history are the […]

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By AFP – Oct 31,2023  ABU DHABI — Nothing has yet been agreed between the nearly 200 countries that will meet at the COP28 climate talks in Dubai, with two days of preparatory talks in Abu Dhabi failing to produce any major breakthrough, participants said on Tuesday. Around 70 ministers took part in talks on Monday and […]

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Israel hands out gas concessions to BP, ENI as Gaza war drags on – Al Monitor / Times of Israel Al Monitor Jack Dutton. October 30, 2023 Israel is determined to project a “business as usual” stance despite the conflict with Hamas claiming the lives of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians. Israel’s Ministry of Energy […]

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Jack Dutton. October 31, 2023 Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 4.5% in the third quarter of this year, according to preliminary government data released Tuesday, as voluntary oil cuts by the world’s largest crude exporter weighed on the economy. The kingdom was the fastest-growing economy in the G20 group of nations last year, […]

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The government department is looking to plant 10 mangroves in Abu Dhabi for every visitor to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai in November. Jack Dutton November 1, 2023 On Abu Dhabi’s Jubail Island, there are more than 17,500 hectares of mangroves, a verdant canopy that draws kayakers, paddleboarders and other tourists from all over […]

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 Oct 29,2023 AMMAN — The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has completed the first phase of revamping the so called “Pepsi pool” in Russeifa in the eastern city of Zarqa. The infamous “Pepsi Pool”, a cesspit which sits in the heart of a populated and industrialised area east of Russeifa, is known to be highly contaminated […]

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 Oct 31,2023  AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation said on Sunday it has dealt with a water theft incident in south Amman.  The ministry said that a pipe was sabotaged to illegally fill water tankers in an area adjacent to the airport road, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.  The ministry added that […]

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27/10/2023 In a significant development for sustainable energy in the United Arab Emirates, the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) has unveiled plans to power its newly constructed Plant Genetic Resources Center in Al Ain with renewable energy. This initiative will involve the installation of photovoltaic solar panels, and it’s set to make a substantial impact on […]

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Najib Saab. 15/10/2023 Participants in the Middle East and North Africa Climate Week, which was hosted by Riyadh few days ago, did not debate whether the climate was changing or not, but rather went directly to devising practical solutions to the inevitable challenge. Instead of just casting doubts and complaining about alleged conspiracy theories, the […]

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