By Dana Al Emam – Jan 21,2016 AMMAN — An upcoming conference seeks to shed light on gender mainstreaming in issues related to climate change, highlighting local women’s contributions in the field. The “Climate Change from a Gender Perspective Conference”, which will be held on February 1 followed by two days of workshops, will discuss […]

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Basel Burgan The Jordanian National Master Energy Strategy of 2007 proposed a mix of energy resources to divert Jordan from dependence on energy source imports. This mix comprises gas, oil, oil shale and renewable energy (RE). The study also proposed the introduction of nuclear power for as little as 6 per cent of the overall […]

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by Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 21,2016 AMMAN — Jordan, which leads the Arab world in renewable energy projects, is on track to generate 10 per cent of its power needs via wind and solar projects by 2020, an official said Thursday. The percentage is set as a target for green energy’s contribution to the country’s […]

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UAE company to develop 200MW solar plant in Jordan – Jordan Times AMMAN — Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, on Wednesday announced an agreement to develop a commercially driven utility-scale 200 megawatt (MW) photovoltaic solar plant for the Energy Ministry. The agreement comes less than one month after Masdar and its partners inaugurated the […]

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by Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 14,2016 AMMAN — As part of efforts to reduce energy consumption, the government on Thursday launched a project to distribute LED (light emitting diode) power-saving bulbs to households at no charge. Under the first phase of the project, the distribution of 42,000 power saving bulbs will start soon in different […]

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18/1/2016 The Middle East and North Africa’s urban waste volume doubling by 2025 is straining budgets and forcing governments to reinvent strategies, experts announced today in advance of EcoWaste’s MENA Municipalities Roundtable. By 2025, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)’s daily urban waste is set to reach 369,320 tons, more than double from 2012, […]

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18 Arrested, 4 Injured as Activists Storm Environment Ministry by Naharnet Newsdesk 14 January 2016, 12:45 Demonstrators and security forces scuffled outside the environment ministry in Beirut on Thursday after several civil society activists stormed the building to protest the authorities’ failure to resolve the waste problem. Anti-riot police pushed back “We Want Accountability” and […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/19/2016 “Preserving these areas is clearly in the public interest because they serve the Israeli public, significantly reduce air pollution and serve as the green lungs of the country.” Claiming the National Council for Planning and Building intends to destroy the country’s open spaces by advancing certain construction programs, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 20,2016 A photo shared on social media purportedly shows hunters posing with dead gazelles they hunted in Rweished recently AMMAN — Authorities are investigating a group of poachers who allegedly shot down about a dozen of the Rhim gazelle, an internationally endangered species, in the eastern desert on the Jordanian-Syrian […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 19,2016 AMMAN — Authorities dealt with 162 violations recorded on 300 dunums of forest lands across the country over the past three months, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The registered violations on the forest lands were cultivations, quarries and building and they were removed under a national plan […]

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Author: Al-Masry Al-Youm The piles of dead fish that have rattled residents of cities overlooking the Nile River distributary of Rosetta were killed by pollution caused by sewage, said the Health Ministry, practically backtracking on the government’s earlier denial and blame on fishermen. Ammonia and unprocessed sewage discharge from a drainage station in Giza caused […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/18/2016 Among the charges being brought against the defendants are severe circumstances of water pollution, hazardous waste dumping and littering in a public domain. As a result of two 2011 incidents in which fuel oil heavily contaminated southern Israel’s Nahal Zin, the State Attorney’s Office filed an indictment against the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline […]

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By MICHELLE MALKA GROSSMAN 01/17/2016 An effort is now underway to upgrade the existing system in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Ministry. The Environmental Protection Ministry on Sunday opened a criminal probe after a power outage caused sewage to leak into the Kishon River over the weekend in Kiryat Tivon, near Haifa. Authorities were able […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/10/2016 Aiming to convey 5 billion cubic meters of gas from Israel to Egypt, the deal calls for employing the now defunct East Mediterranean Gas company pipeline. Three weeks after National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz granted his approval for the first deal to export gas from Israel to Egypt, […]

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Jan 10,2016 AMMAN — The bombing of the Jordanian-Egyptian gas pipeline in Sinai does not affect the Kingdom, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, quoted a government source as saying on Friday. The source told Petra that Jordan receives its gas supply through the Aqaba liquefied natural gas terminal. Electricity generation stations are supplied by around […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 01/13/2016 Afek Oil: Drilling is occurring without environmental damage, according to requirements. Arguing that oil works in the Golan Heights may harm the public interest and pose a potential threat to environmental and water resources, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel filed its objections on Tuesday to a recent […]

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Sierra Leone denied on Sunday media reports that said that it is willing to receive Lebanon’s garbage as part of a recently approved deal to tackle the country’s waste management problem, reported al-Jadeed television. Sierra Leone’s consul in Lebanon Donald Roy Josepeh Abed deemed the reports as “baseless.” “The Sierra Leone authorities warned against spreading […]

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Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk has filed a request with Lebanese Customs to ban the importation of incinerators over environmental concerns. “Burning solid domestic waste could produce persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that breach the Stockholm Convention,” the ministry said in a statement issued Monday. Lebanon is bound according to the Stockholm Convention, which was signed in […]

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by Hana Namrouqa – Jan 10,2016 – The Dibbeen Forest Reserve located in Jerash Governorate (Photo courtesy of RSCN) AMMAN — The Kingdom’s green cover increased by 15,000 dunums over the past three years, while violations on the country’s forests dropped by more than half during the same period, according to the Forestry Department. Ongoing […]

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by Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 12,2016 AMMAN — Jordan is the leading Arab country in renewable energy and the potential for more projects is greater, officials and experts said Monday. Compared to Germany, which generates almost a third of its electricity via renewable projects, solar irradiance in the Kingdom is more than double that in […]

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