U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard on Monday visited the Deir Ammar Power Station in north Lebanon which is operated by U.S. firm PrimeSouth. The U.S. company has invested $75 million to rehabilitate the facility and an additional $45 million in the Zahrani Power Station over the past two years. “Together, the power stations generate […]

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Environmentalist had feared the state would allow construction within 100 meters of the shore Zafrir Rinat Oct 26, 2018 For years, development has been encroaching on Israel’s coastline. Now the government is moving to pass a national master plan that will enshrine the right of the people of Israel to go to the beach unimpeded […]

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October 28, 2018 Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm The World Bank praised Egypt’s reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions thanks to the Vehicle Scrapping and Recycling program. The program resulted in a reduction of 310,000 tons of CO2 emissions between 2013 and 2017. By the end of 2018, CO2 reduction is anticipated to reach 350,000 […]

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October 29, 2018 Farah Tawfeek The World Bank published a report as part of its monthly publication saying that Egyptian car owners have given the government 45,000 taxis to scrap and recycle as part of the government’s “Scrapping and recycling vehicles” program, which has helped decrease Egypt’s carbon dioxide emissions between 2013 and 2017 by […]

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October 25, 2018 Edited translation from al-Masry al-Youm. Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has announced that the New Administrative Capital would be the first city in Egypt to accommodate eco-friendly electric cars, as soon as the government created the necessary foundation for their use – beginning with the legal framework. She made the announcement […]

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The largest pollution site is in the northern Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Hasharon, where Israel Military Industries has been the major source of groundwater pollution Zafrir Rinat | Oct. 12, 2018 | 1:44 PM About 8 percent of the water in Israel’s coastal aquifer, which supplies drinking water for residents of the country’s highly […]

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Despite a late-summer lull in the number of incendiary devices launched, the amount sent into Israeli territory has steadily increased again in October. By Avraham Gold, Tovah Lazaroff October 17, 2018 03:05 Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman pushed for a military solution to the Gaza conflict on Tuesday, as a study shows that Palestinian-launched incendiary devices […]

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October 14, 2018 Thousands of young people participated on Saturday in the “Share and Clean” initiative, organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, to help clean up Egypt’s streets and take care of the environment. The initiative comes as part of government plans to motivate young people to participate in tackling issues facing society, […]

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12/10/2018 OPEC’s Secretary-General on Thursday criticized a report calling for radical action to fight climate change, saying the idea that renewable energy was the world’s only future was misguided and that a “bombardment” of green advocacy could be harmful. A U.N. panel this week called for unprecedented changes in how the world consumes energy and […]

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Grand Jaafarite Shiite Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan urged the “ruling class” in Lebanon to end wrangling over the country’s oil and gas wealth, asking them to focus instead on the people’s concerns and livelihood matters. “It is painful to see the people in power trying to secretly put their hand on the oil wealth, while […]

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08 October 2018 Caretaker Energy and Water Resources Minister Cesar Abi Khalil announced on Monday that an agreement has been reached with representative of Siemens company to coordinate efforts in a bid to find a solution for the electricity crisis in Lebanon. “An agreement on bilateral cooperation between the Ministry and the company has been […]

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17/10/2018 An estimated 700,000 tonnes per annum of municipal waste in Abu Dhabi, could potentially be converted into jet fuel or other energy sources, Tadweer, the Centre of Waste Management in Abu Dhabi announced on Tuesday. Etihad Airways and Tadweer are set to collaborate on a landmark research project to explore how municipal waste can […]

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15/10/2018 Abu Dhabi residents will soon be able to tell where exactly water and electricity are wasted in their house, which will prompt them to minimise resource consumption and save money, a senior official said. “If you know who in which room consumes more electricity, who is wasting water and how domestic waste is generated, […]

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Oil giant Saudi Arabia backed down at the last minute Saturday from obstructing the adoption of a major report by the UN’s climate science panel, sources told AFP. With the threat removed, the meeting of the 195-nation panel in Incheon, South Korea — deep into overtime — swiftly approved the report on how to cap […]

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EcoPeace at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum An EcoPeace delegation comprising; Dalit Wolf Golan, Mahmoud Driaat and Baker Barakat participated in the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis, MN, hosted by Augsburg University. The representatives from our three offices presented a panel on Water Diplomacy in the Middle East, moderated by Professor Nicholas Hayes, and […]

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Suspected incendiary balloon causes large fire in Ein HaBesor YNET 10.06.18 Residents report seeing balloons coming out of Gaza minutes before massive fire breaks out in moshav in the Eshkol Regional Council; firefighters, security personnel and farmers work to keep flames away from greenhouses. Matan Tzuri One of the largest fires over the past six […]

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Oct. 2, 2018 ERUSALEM (Ma’an) — As Israel threatened to raid and demolish the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar at any moment since the evacuation period ended, Israeli settlers stormed the village and flooded the area with wastewater, on Tuesday afternoon. Locals said that Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Kfar Adummim […]

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By Saeb Rawashdeh – Oct 01,2018 AMMAN — While water scarcity in Jordan has been widely researched, mainly from an engineering perspective, less is known from the water politics angle, a Jordanian scholar said. During a lecture titled “Water scarcity discourses and hydro-politics in the case of Jordan”, held at the CBRL British Institute in […]

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Climate change and increased water use is harming Israeli flora and fauna – and making it impossible for nature to survive without some help from humans Zafrir Rinat | Oct. 2, 2018 The Banias Stream in the Golan Heights, whose cold waters have refreshed generations of hikers, is finding it difficult to do just that […]

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Emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur per capita are down as much as 60 percent as power plants shift to natural gas, though EU countries are still doing better Zafrir Rinat | Oct. 3, 2018 | 12:55 AM Over the past six years Israel has seen a considerable drop in polluting emissions from industry and […]

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