By MELANIE LIDMAN 06/17/2011 20:18 J’lem municipality, PMO, Finance Ministry, and Environmental Ministry reach solution to fund new southern landfill for city’s waste. The trash conundrum in Jerusalem was solved on Friday afternoon, after the Jerusalem Municipality, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Finance Ministry, and the Environmental Protection Ministry came to an agreement over the […]
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J’lem trash crisis solved, Abu Dis dump to be phased out – Jerusalem Post
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Ketura solar power installation, Israel’s first, begins capturing clean energy – Haaretz
But questions remain over whether venture can help government meet targets. By David Sheen A group of Anglos are largely responsible for Israel’s first major solar power field, which was inaugurated earlier this week to much fanfare. But while the desert installation is harnessing the power of the sun to the peak tune of 4.95 […]
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Japanese grant to improve water services in Tafileh – Jordan Times
AMMAN (JT) – The government of Japan will extend a JD16.6 million grant ($23,500,000) to Jordan under its “Grant Aid for Environment and Climate Change” programme, a Japanese embassy statement said Monday. Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Jafar Hassan and Japan’s ambassador to Jordan Junichi Kosuge are scheduled to sign the agreement for the […]
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Both shrinking and flooding threaten Dead Sea – Daily Star
June 14, 2011 02:07 AM By Daniel Estrin EIN BOKEK, Israel: The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabled salty lake is dropping nearly 1.2 meters a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of Israel’s key tourism destinations.Israel is feverishly campaigning […]
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Pisgat Ze’ev mikve to get recycled-water system in August – Jerusalem Post
By SHARON UDASIN 06/17/2011 06:35 Mikve Yair will be the first among the city’s 36 ritual baths to be piloting a special recycled- water system. Talkbacks (1) Women using one northern Jerusalem mivke might now be reentering the same waters that they had enjoyed the month before. Mikve Yair, in the northern Pisgat Ze’ev neighborhood […]
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Introducing SafeMed
Environment and Climate in the Middle East received several postings from SafeMed, an EU project. The cover letter and contact information is in this posting. Postings for Lebanon, Jordan and Israel follow. ========== I am writing to you from the Mediterranean island of Malta where SafeMed, a project funded by the European Union is based. As the […]
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SAFEMED LEBANON
Lebanon: Government takes step toward maritime safety [Daily Star] March 31, 2011 by Simona Sikimic BEIRUT: Lebanon has taken an important first step to bring its shipping fleet in line with international standards on pollution and safety, two maritime experts have told The Daily Star. Jonathan Pace and Albert Bergonzo, project officers at Regional Marine […]
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SAFEMED JORDAN
Jordan: The SafeMed Project: A review of the benefits for Aqaba, Jordan Source: http://www.jordanoholic.com/blog/news/aqaba-jordan-safemed-benefits Jordan is one of the Beneficiaries of the European Union funded SafeMed Project being implemented in the Mediterranean region by the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for the Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC), based in Malta, on behalf of the International Maritime […]
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SAFEMED ISRAEL
SAFEMED ISRAEL Israel: “Israel building up its capabilities well for VIMSAS audit” says SafeMed Officer Israel is gearing up well for an eventual Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS) audit later on this year. Through VIMSAS, the State will be in a better position to ensure maritime safety and pollution prevention. VIMSAS creates a basis to […]
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Israel’s new energy [Financial Post]
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 […]
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Project in Bergesh forest ‘may harm Jordan’s reputation‘ – Jordan Times
By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Environmental NGOs on Monday warned that continuing with plans to establish a military academy in Bergesh forest may harm Jordan’s international reputation and status. Being a signatory to international agreements for the protection of biological diversity, such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat […]
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U.N. warns of heavy price if loss of Lebanon’s forests continues – Daily Star
June 07, 2011 01:48 AM By Patrick Galey The Daily Star BEIRUT: The United Nations has ushered in its World Environment Day with a stark warning that the continued degradation of the region’s forests could have a disastrous affect on Arab economies. Environmental campaigners added that Lebanon, as one of the greenest Middle Eastern states, […]
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‘Amman will purchase 10 m. cubic meters of Israeli water’ – Jerusalem Post
By SHARON UDASIN 06/07/2011 04:13 Jordanian newspaper reports water shortages in Jordan Valley prompt expected purchase this summer. Talkbacks (13) Jordan is expected to buy 10 million cubic meters of additional water from Israel’s Lake Kinneret supply this summer due to water shortages in the Jordan Valley, Jordanian newspaper Al-Arab al-Yawm reported an unidentified Jordanian […]
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Water bill would require public institutions to recycle – Jerusalem Post
By SHARON UDASIN 06/07/2011 05:53 Knesset c’tee approves bill on regulation of water separation systems, collection, reuse of drain water to optimize usage. Talkbacks (3) The Knesset Internal Affairs and Environmental Committee approved a bill Monday morning that would require public institutions to use recycled, or gray water, a committee spokesman announced that afternoon. The […]
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Imagining Fukushima in the Negev – Haaretz
If an enemy missile succeeded in hitting a nuclear power station here, it could lead to a major dispersal of radiation and the exposure of large populations. By Hillel Shuval In this era of growing concern with global warming and the search for clean energy sources, many countries, including Israel, have given renewed consideration to […]
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CDR defends new Nahr al-Mott bridge as solution to traffic jams – Daily Star
June 09, 2011 02:13 AM By Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star BEIRUT: A new bridge leading to Sin al-Fil from the Nahr al-Mott area prompted officials from the Council for Development and Reconstruction Wednesday to hold a news conference to defend the project as an improvement in the traffic situation. Project manager Elie Helou said […]
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A bus named flop – Haaretz
Many families who don’t earn enough to cover their monthly expenses are forced to buy a car only so they can get to work on time, and the high price of gasoline affects them seriously. It’s a failure that costs billions of shekels a year: in endless traffic jams, wasted fuel, accidents, frayed nerves and […]
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First Large-Scale Solar Field Could be a Model for Israel-Palestinian Partnership – PRI World
As a small Middle Eastern country with no oil of its own, Israel’s long-held dream of energy independence has been just that, a dream. And as for the Palestinians, not having a state of their own has also put energy independence out of reach. But one thing Israel and the Palestinian territories do have in […]
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Arava’s Energy Partnership Aims to Bridge Borders and Reduce Emissions [AoL Energy]
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 […]
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Let peace begin with water [Israel 21c]
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 […]
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