The gas-rich United Arab Emirates will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude’s global price slide, it said Sunday. “By 2021, our investments in nuclear and solar projects will reach $35 billion (31 billion Euros),” Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei said at an […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 10/07/2015 Afek Oil and Gas say findings have so far revealed a ‘very robust oil-bearing strata’ While numerous Israeli media outlets reported huge Golan Heights oil discoveries on Wednesday morning, it remains to be seen whether these hydrocarbons are actually extractable and usable. Although Afek Oil and Gas announced in both May […]

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Lebanon has submitted its climate action plan to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ahead of the new universal climate change agreement which will be reached at the UN climate conference in Paris in December 2015. The Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) is a country’s public declaration on what actions it intends to […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Sep 14,2015 – AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Sunday urged the public against using municipal water for cleaning gardens and pavements, warning that it would suspend water services to households found in violation of its instructions. In a statement, the ministry called on people to ration the […]

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The “You Stink” civil society campaign staged a march from downtown Beirut to the Central Bank in protest against corruption in Lebanon. The protesters made their way from a Finance Ministry building in downtown and later arrived at the Central Bank in the Hamra neighborhood. Soon after their arrival, activist Asaad Zebian was arrested with […]

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Lebanese personalities have contacted Syrian authorities to ask for help to resolve Lebanon’s waste management crisis, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Tuesday. The daily said that Damascus has approved to treat the garbage in its territories or transfer it to Iraq, which has also expressed readiness to accept part of the waste. According to al-Joumhouria, Syria’s […]

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Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb stated on Monday that the garbage crisis cannot tolerate any more delay, stressing that preparations to gear up the Srar landfill to meet scientific standards and reopen the Naameh landfill continue. “The trash crisis does no tolerate political luxury. Everyone must know that if we failed to solve the garbage crisis […]

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A new rally was held Sunday in the northern district of Akkar to denounce government plans to turn an existing garbage dump in the Srar area into a so-called “sanitary landfill” capable of receiving trash from areas across Lebanon as part of an emergency waste management project. The demo was organized by civil society activists […]

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Democratic Gathering bloc leader MP Walid Jumblat stated on Sunday that PM Tammam Salam may not call for a cabinet session before the waste crisis plan kicks off and the dialogue sessions among rival parties resume. “Prime Minister Tammam Salam is unlikely to call for a cabinet session before the implementation of the waste collection […]

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In the future, refugees will seek areas unaffected by human global warming. 30 Sep 2015 Robert Winder is the author of Bloody Foreigners: the Story of Immigration to Britain. It has taken a long time for the world to see the “sudden” migration of thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East as a […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 10/01/2015 Residents identify source of sewage leak as the sewage treatment plant in the Rehovot Science Park. Residents of Ness Ziona are threatening to sue the neighboring municipality of Rehovot, after copious amounts of raw sewage flowed from the latter into their midst over Yom Kippur. Last week, the Ness Ziona Municipality […]

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HAARETZ Environmentalists say that coming rains will help the Lachish stream recover from contamination. Almog Ben Zikri Sep 30, 2015 A rare sewage leak into a stream near Ashdod this weekend caused an ecological disaster, killing thousands of fish and tens of thousands of other organisms. The sewage was diverted into the Lachish stream, south […]

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Five years of poor policymaking, political infighting and a battle between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the antitrust commissioner over a lack of competition have left Israel in a troublesome position. Reuters 10.02.15 When the Leviathan gas field was discovered off the coast of Israel in 2010, it was pitched as a game-changer — a […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 09/30/2015 Government encouraging international collaborations As Israelis continue to research and develop alternative fuel technologies at home, the entrepreneurs working in this emerging field have an increasing opportunity to make a global impact, according to the country’s top official in the sector. “Slowly, we started to take the companies that we have […]

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By Laila Azzeh – Oct 01,2015 Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Saif (second left) speaks at a press meeting to announce a November forum on renewable energy for industry in Amman on Wednesday (Petra photo) AMMAN – Shifting the industrial sector’s energy consumption trends will be the highlight of a forum slated to […]

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By JT – Oct 02,2015 AMMAN — Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour and Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek El Molla on Thursday discussed ways to enhance bilateral relations and cooperation, especially in the field of energy. At the meeting, attended by Energy Minister Ibrahim Saif and Egyptian Ambassador to Jordan Khaled Tharwat, Ensour […]

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AMMAN — The Environment Ministry has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Business Development Centre (BDC) to implement the Green Entrepreneurship Programme. The project, which the first of its kind in Jordan, is funded by the EU in cooperation with SCP/RAC, through SWITCH Med initiative for the Mediterranean Sea Basin, a ministry statement released […]

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MMAN — The Council of Ministers on Wednesday endorsed the 2015 amended draft agriculture law as part of the government›s measures to resolve tresspassing on forest lands. The draft law comes in accordance with measures implemented in several sectors to prevent violations on water, electricity, the General Secondary Education Certificate Examination (Tawjihi) and forest lands, […]

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Jumblat: Cabinet Convention Linked to Garbage Plan Implementation Democratic Gathering bloc leader MP Walid Jumblat stated on Sunday that PM Tammam Salam may not call for a cabinet session before the waste crisis plan kicks off and the dialogue sessions among rival parties resume. “Prime Minister Tammam Salam is unlikely to call for a cabinet […]

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