22/1/2016 Massive deployment of low-carbon energy in the world’s cities is now both vital and economic, a high-level United Nations meeting concluded yesterday at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. Hosted by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the Habitat III Secretariat, the meeting sets the agenda for October’s United […]

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22/1/2016 More than 15 projects on sustainable energy in Lebanon were submitted to NEEREA during the first 20 days of 2016, with a total value of more than $12 Million. LCEC estimates that more than $300 million of projects will be implemented during the year. According to the 2015 statistics, the average amount per project […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 18,2016 AMMAN — Responding to a drop in annual per capita share of water by 16 per cent over the past five years, the government has launched a 10-year water strategy to bridge a growing gap between supply and demand. Demand for water in Jordan has risen by 21 per […]

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By Khetam Malkawi – Jan 17,2016 AMMAN — The Cabinet on Sunday reviewed a new national water strategy that will cost the Kingdom JD5.3 billion over the next 10 years, Government Spokesperson Mohammad Momani said. The 2016-2025 water strategy will entail implementing several projects to secure additional water resources, as Jordan is the world’s second […]

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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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