By Dan Rabinowitz. Published 06.07.11. Link to source: Haaretz-Opinion The big money for Better Place lies in the monopoly it received from the state on building and operating charging stations. The first electric cars in the Better Place system are due to arrive on Israel’s roads in the next few days. The cars themselves are […]

Read the rest of this entry »

By Wael Mahdi – Jul 4, 2011. Tunisia plans to invest $2 billion in solar projects to generate power for Europe, the minister of planning and international cooperation said. Tunisia is building 40 solar projects with foreign partners from Germany and other countries, and they will start providing electricity to Europe by 2016, Tunisia’s Abdelhamid […]

Read the rest of this entry »

The Jerusalem Post newspaper has a section called “green Israel > People and the Environment“, with promotional material from the Jewish National Fund (JNF). However, some of the posted items are relevant news items, which we recommend readers to check out. For example, the following item: Promoting forestry legislation in Israel. As a part of […]

Read the rest of this entry »

23-06-2011. Source: ENPI info centre The Lebanese Centre for Energy Conservation (LCEC) has organised a workshop on the National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Action Initiative (NEEREA) and other financing mechanisms to support investments in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies, in the framework of the EU-funded project “EU Support to the LCEC”. […]

Read the rest of this entry »

05-07-2011. Source: ENPI info centre Hosting more than one third of international tourism and focusing more than a quarter of the world capacity of accommodation, tourism in Mediterranean countries represents a vital economic resource in the region. However, these countries also share concerns when it comes to environmental issues, with a growing demand for environmentally […]

Read the rest of this entry »

29-06-2011. Source: ENPI Info Centre A project to build a major desalination plant in Gaza, capable of producing 100 million cubic meters of drinking water a year, has officially been approved by Senior Officials representing the 43 member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM). A press release from the UfM Secretariat said the €310 […]

Read the rest of this entry »

1) Researchers say these findings explain why many environmental problems remain unresolved despite growing environmental awareness. source: Haaretz by Zafrir Rinat 21.06.11 Israeli environmental organizations have expanded their activity and influence significantly in the past few years, but still face budgetary shortfalls, a lack of skilled manpower and insufficient financial support from the public, a new study by […]

Read the rest of this entry »

The IUCN says the antelope’s reintroduction to the wild is the most successful effort for any species once classified as extinct Source: Guardian / Press Association  Thursday 16 June 2011 [excerpts] An antelope species, widely believed to be the source of the unicorn legend and hunted to extinction in the wild, has been brought back from the brink, […]

Read the rest of this entry »

by DANIEL ESTRIN Chicago Tribune / Associated Press 9:04 AM CDT, June 13, 2011 EIN BOKEK, Israel (AP) — The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabled salty lake is dropping nearly 4 feet a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of […]

Read the rest of this entry »

Campaign aims “to fight police’s refusal to enforce” rules in these lanes so taking public buses becomes less of a burden, helps improve environment. by Sharon Udasin 06/20/2011 Source: Jerusalem Post The Green Movement has launched a campaign to bring greater enforcement to public transportation lanes in order to give the public more of an incentive to […]

Read the rest of this entry »

by Lawrence Solomon, Jun 10, 2011 Source: Financial Post In the first 25 years after Israel’s founding in 1948, it was repeatedly attacked by the large armies of its Arab neighbours. Each time, Israel prevailed on the battlefield, only to have its victories rolled back by Western powers who feared losing access to Arab oilfields. The […]

Read the rest of this entry »

By Shifra Mincer Published: May 27, 2011 source: http://energy.aol.com/2011/05/27/aravas-energy-partnership-aims-to-bridge-borders/ Nestled deep in Israel’s Negev desert, just several miles from the Gaza Strip on one side and Jordan on the other, the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies is a multinational education center whose aim is to use environmental projects to scale back more than just carbon emissions. “We live […]

Read the rest of this entry »

By Karin Kloosterman June 06, 2011 Named a Hero of the Environment by TIME magazine, Israeli lawyer Gidon Bromberg and his colleagues in Friends of the Earth Middle East are also heroes of peacemaking. In the early 1990s, a young Israeli lawyer doing a master’s thesis on environmental international law concluded that the environment could […]

Read the rest of this entry »

source: ENPI resource centre 26-05-2011 Related article in this site: click here The European Investment Bank, the EU’s long-term financing institution, today announces the signing of a €142 million finance contract for the design and construction of a seawater desalination plant using reverse osmosis technology in Sorek, Israel. The contract, signed with the company Sorek […]

Read the rest of this entry »

1) Call for funding proposals [source: EnpiCBCMED date: 05.05.2011] Call for strategic projects launched The Joint Managing Authority is pleased to announce that the call for strategic projects is now officially open (determination N. 48/1066 of 05/05/2011). € 62,4 million are available for cross-border cooperation projects focusing on the six following topics under Programme Priorities 1 and […]

Read the rest of this entry »

28-04-2011 access the news item here and the press release. Two feasibility studies are currently being prepared in Lebanon and Tunisia, while another three potential investment projects are finalising the pre-feasibility study stage in Egypt, under the Horizon 2020 initiative for de-pollution of the Mediterranean by 2020. At the same time, there is ongoing dialogue in […]

Read the rest of this entry »

25-02-2011 The EU-funded Horizon 2020 initiative Steering Group held its 4th meeting in Amman, Jordan gathering representatives of the Ministry of Environment in Jordan, the EU Directorate General for Environment, and member countries of the programme to review progress achieved by the initiative. A press release said the meeting, held on 22 and 23 February, […]

Read the rest of this entry »