Short Url https://arab.news/jazf9 NADA HAMEED.  15 June 2024 JEDDAH: Hajj draws about 2 million people each year. However, this monumental event places a significant strain on the environment through waste, water and energy consumption, and carbon emissions.  That is why measures have been put in place to encourage pilgrims to minimize their waste, use resources […]

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14/6/2024 Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, June 13, 2024 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) convenes its 27th Council meeting in Abu Dhabi today, just days after United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued an urgent call for climate action. The two-day meetings gather representatives from 105 countries to discuss critical issues facing the energy transition. […]

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By Maria Weldali – May 29,2024 – AMMAN — Jordan is a favourable environment for investment in renewables, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Energy and Minerals Regulatory Commission (EMRC) Ziad Saideh said on Tuesday. Speaking at the weekly Government Communication Forum, Saideh pointed out that “throughout the past 25 years, Jordan has made notable […]

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The new program was developed as a response to the critical global challenge of climate change and will be launched in the coming academic year. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFJUNE 12, 202 The Hebrew University announced in May that it launched a new master’s program focused on green energy technology. The program aims to prepare future researchers and […]

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Short Url https://arab.news/pyhq3 June 04, 2024 RIYADH: Decision-makers and environmentalists from around the world participated in the Arab Forum for Environment, which began in Riyadh on June 3. The two-day forum was organized by the joint secretariat of the forum, represented by the general secretariat of the League of Arab States and the United Nations […]

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June 4, 2024 The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, in partnership with Damour for Community Development, is launching a project on June 7 geared toward the day after in Gaza. Taking the essential need for water, sanitation, and hygiene (abbreviated WASH), as well as energy services, that currently exists and will continue to exist in […]

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By Jake Spring. May 31, 2024 The world must make peace with nature or risk fueling more global conflicts like the war in Gaza, the president of the upcoming United Nations COP16 biodiversity summit said on Friday. The October summit in Colombia is charged with negotiating next steps to implement the landmark 2022 Kunming-Montreal accord – likened to the Paris […]

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AFP , Monday 3 Jun 2024 Displaced Gazans had to use empty plastic bottles on Monday to try to remove sewage from their tents after a pipeline burst in the main southern city of Khan Yunis. Palestinians shop at a makeshift market near heavily damaged buildings in Khan Yunis. AFP “All the tents were flooded with […]

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‘We’re now in summer and every piece of shrapnel that falls in the forests starts a fire,’ says the JNF Upper Galilee Region director. According to JNF data, at least twice the area in the north has burned in the past few days than in the entire Second Lebanon War Zafrir Rinat Adi Hashmonai. Jun […]

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Naharnet Israeli authorities were on alert for new brush fires Tuesday, after munitions fired from Lebanon by Hezbollah the previous evening ignited several across northern Israel. The Israel Fire and Rescue Service said that dozens of firefighting teams worked through the night along with teams from the Nature and Park Service, army, police and other […]

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As flames engulfed communities in Israel’s north following Hezbollah rockets, brave local citizens and volunteers moved quickly and worked tirelessly to extinguish them. Meanwhile, the government was nowhere to be found Allison Kaplan Sommer. Jun 4, 2024 As flames and fires engulfed communities in Israel’s north on Sunday and Monday after Hezbollah rockets fired from […]

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 30 May ,2024 Israel plans to allow more oil tankers to dock at a Red Sea port in Eilat despite environmental risks, as it strives to maintain energy security amid conflict on multiple fronts, according to Israeli officials and government documents. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office wants to revoke restrictions on the amount of oil […]

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Lebanon’s political class, fuel companies and private electricity providers blocked an offer by gas-rich Qatar to build three renewable energy power plants to ease the crisis-hit nation’s decades-old electricity crisis, Lebanon’s caretaker economy minister said Thursday. Lebanon’s electricity crisis worsened after the country’s historic economic meltdown began in October 2019. Power cuts often last for […]

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By JT – Jun 03,2024 AMMAN — Secretary General of the Jordan Valley Authority Hisham Hisa, has urged citizens and farmers living near water bodies, dams, and the King Abdullah Canal in the Jordan Valley not to approach or swim in these non-designated areas. The warning came due to the noticeable rise in temperatures, as it poses […]

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 02 June 2024. Short Url https://arab.news/wcf6y RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the UN Environment Programme will mark World Environment Day on June 5, to be held this year under the theme “Our Land, Our Future.” The ceremony will be at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, and will be attended by dignitaries, officials, as […]

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https://jumpstartinghopegaza.org/event/ to be held on Friday, June 07, 2024. 10:00 AM – 01:30 PM In response to the acute humanitarian and environmental crises in Gaza, Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza mobilizes a cooperative effort for the rapid deployment of decentralized water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) and energy solutions. Backed by extensive cross-border expertise, Damour for Community Development and […]

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Tareq Abu Hamed, the Palestinian director of the Israeli Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, tells American supporters in D.C. that his group uses ‘science and the environment to bring people together’ HALEY COHEN/EJEWISHPHILANTHROPY Tareq Abu Hamed, executive director of the Arava Institute, speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 2024. […]

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(Reuters) – A surge of attacks on ships traveling the waters of the Red Sea is forcing shippers to reroute their vessels, sending them on longer journeys that drive up their carbon dioxide emissions. For companies struggling to account for – and lower – the climate-warming emissions associated with their businesses, these rerouted journeys add to the challenge. […]

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An epidemic that has decimated large numbers of sea urchins in the Gulf of Eilat has spread to the Red Sea and spilled over into the Indian Ocean. ‘This is an ecological disaster of the first order,’ say researchers at Tel Aviv University, recommending that urgent action be taken Zafrir Rinat. May 23, 2024 A […]

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Daniel Bardsley. May 26, 2024 Mangroves in the Arabian Gulf and surrounding regions could shrink by 45 per cent over the next half century if current trends continue, scientists have warned in a study. The assessment, by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), found that the area in the Gulf covered by mangroves has […]

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