By JT – Nov 17,2023 Ayman Safadi  AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Thursday that Jordan will not sign a water-for-energy deal with Israel in light of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip. During an interview with Aljazeera News Channel, Safadi said that the deal was supposed to be signed […]

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David Lehrer. NOV 14, 2023,  Dr. Lehrer was the Executive Director of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies from 2001 until August 2021 and has now become Director of International Development. Dr. Lehrer has been a member of Kibbutz Ketura since 1981. With a protracted war ahead, Israel has a vested interest in quickly rebuilding […]

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Three out of seven Watergen machines installed in the south of the Hamas-controlled enclave reportedly still supplying clean water to at least 2,000 Gazans By SUE SURKES  14 November 2023, Several thousand Gazans have access to potable water from three Israeli water-from-air Watergen machines that remain operating in southern Gaza, according to the former head of […]

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“Today we strike in solidarity with Palestine and Gaza,” Greta Thunberg posted. Her followers said they were “deeply hurt, shocked and disappointed.” By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN  OCTOBER 22, 2023 More than 100 Israeli environmental leaders and activists have sent a letter to Greta Thunberg after she posted a pro-Hamas thread on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Today […]

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The US energy giant was ordered to shut down the field for security reasons after the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. Adam Lucente November 13, 2023 Chevron said on Monday it has resumed supplying natural gas from Israel’s Tamar field following a brief halt at the outset of the war that began on Oct. 7.  A […]

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By Mays Ibrahim Mustafa – Nov 15,2023  AMMAN — Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Kharabsheh on Monday signed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) to prepare feasibility studies aimed at developing a production capacity of green ammonia in Jordan equal to up to 1.5 million tonnes annually.  Parties to the signing included CEO of Kawar Energy […]

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 16 November ,2023 The United Arab Emirates inaugurated on Thursday one of the world’s biggest solar plants, two weeks before the Gulf state hosts UN climate talks. The Al Dhafra plant, south of the capital Abu Dhabi, stretches over 21 square kilometers (eight square miles) of desert, an area about one-fifth the size of Paris. Its […]

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By AFP – Oct 10,2023 RIYADH — The first wind turbines have arrived at what Saudi officials bill as the world’s biggest green hydrogen plant, in the futuristic NEOM megacity, the project’s CEO told AFP on Tuesday.  “This week, we have our first delivery of wind turbines. They actually arrived in the port of NEOM, and they’ll […]

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Editor’s note: This article was published on the morning of October 7. Note the contrast with the adjacent article on Neon, the Saudi mega project. Extreme temperatures, heat waves, floods, and more are just around the corner, and no one seems to be giving much thought to these phenomena.  By SIGAL BEN DAVIDOCTOBER 7, 2023 The recent […]

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Editor/s note: Note the contrast with the adjacent article (dated Ocxt 7, 2023) on Israeli environmental localism. In an exclusive interview with Al Arabiya English, Richard Bush, NEOM’s chief environmental officer, says the mega project will demonstrate to the world what is possible in the realms of sustainability. Jennifer Bell, Al Arabiya English. 27 October […]

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editors note: a detailed study published in July 2023. Despite the current conflict, climate change and environmental stress continue to transform the Eastern Mediterranean. The report continues to be relevant. full report available to download: https://www.mei.edu/publications/regional-environmental-cooperation-between-israel-and-its-neighbors authors: NIMROD GOREN, OFIR WINTER, MAYA NEGEV Executive Summary Environmental challenges are becoming a priority for countries in the […]

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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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