By MICHAEL STARR. APRIL 27, 2023 The opening of licenses for gas exploration in Israel’s Mediterranean Sea waters by the Energy Ministry was done without adequate analysis of the move to climate, economic benefit, or environmental risk, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel asserted in a petition filed to the High Court of […]

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04/20/2023 In rural Arizona’s La Paz County, on the state’s rugged border with California, the decision by a Saudi-owned dairy company to grow alfalfa in the American Southwest for livestock in the Gulf kingdom first raised eyebrows nearly a decade ago. Now, worsening drought has focused new attention on the company and whether Arizona should […]

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27/4/2023 The UAE will launch an international eco-education programme to help teach the next generation about crucial efforts to protect the planet. The Ministry of Education has announced a Green Education Partnership with Unesco and Unicef that will offer schools across the UAE a national framework to support climate education and action among young people. […]

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“This is a defining moment, not only for Remilk but for the entire global alternative protein industry,” said Remilk CEO and founder Aviv Wolff. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN. APRIL 27, 2023 Israeli company Remilk has received first-of-its-kind regulatory approvalfrom the Health Ministry to market and sell its non-animal dairy products to Israeli consumers, the company and the Prime […]

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April 10, 2023′ An environment and climate investment unit was launched with the aim of promoting investment in the environment sphere, said Environment Minister Yasmine Fouad. The unit also aims to promote investment in waste recycling and environment tourism, the minister said during her speech at the Senate’s plenary session on Sunday. She added that […]

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Lebanon is becoming increasingly engaged in augmenting investment in clean and renewable energy. Such an endeavor presents a range of high-impact co-benefits. Socially, it will grant the Lebanese population access to reliable energy; economically, it will drive new commerce and create new job opportunities, reduce prices in the case of exceeding supply hence boosting growth; […]

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New Israeli solar energy project in Jezreel Valley aims to increase Israeli energy capacity. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Published: APRIL 22, 2023 Israeli renewable energy company Teralight, the Moshavim movement and the Environmental Protection Ministry have launched the country’s largest solar project in the Jezreel Valley. Known as the “Ta’anakh” project, it is expected to provide […]

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Sa’ar 6-class Corvettes purchased just two years ago, break record time to become operational, include chopper landing pad, accurate offensive abilities, longer ranges, improved operational flexibility, and better capabilities to face advanced threats Yoav Zitun|Yesterday | 16:42 The Israeli Navy declared Sunday that three of their four new Sa’ar 6-class Corvettes – which were purchased […]

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A Dutch salvage company has reached agreement with the United Nations to pump oil from a rusting tanker off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen in a move hailed as a “critical milestone” in moves to avert a possible environmental disaster, its parent company announced Thursday. Boskalis said that its Smit Salvage subsidiary has reached agreement […]

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It’s a feeble drip, drip, drip from the taps every night in Tunisia for six months. Spigots are cut off for seven hours from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. in a state-ordered water rationing in most regions across the country, including Tunis, the capital city. Tunisians are on the front lines of a battle against […]

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The agreement was signed by Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev and Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who was in the country on a diplomatic visit. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Published: APRIL 19, 2023 Israel and Azerbaijan signed a cooperation agreement on environmental protection, Israel’s Foreign Ministry confirmed. The agreement was signed by […]

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21/4/2023 The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MCCE) has launched an integrated programme to monitor plastic waste in the marine and coastal environment of the country, in line with its efforts to preserve marine resources, seawater quality, and beach cleanliness within the general framework of Year of Sustainability. The official news agency WAM reported […]

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19/4/2023 The UAE’s ‘Year of Sustainability’ initiative for 2023 has released a ‘Sustainability Guide’ that will encourage residents to adopt more sustainable habits in their lives by offering practical advice and expert insights to inspire collective action. The 17-pager is available on the UAE Year of Sustainability’s website. The guide includes input from a selection […]

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A first-of-its-kind study by an Israeli university seeks to uncover the information contained in ancient fruit trees Gid’on Lev Apr 24, 2023 An ancient olive tree nicknamed “the tribal elder” grows in Wadi Zeitan, located in the northwestern Negev desert. For hundreds of years, this tree has kept numerous secrets, but they have now been […]

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The big question for people in the travel industry today is how to reconcile the contradiction: How to maximize the advantages of travel, primarily for employment and the economy, without paying the environmental price Moshe Gilad Apr 23, 2023 An Israeli wanting to feast their eyes upon a sequoia – the world’s largest tree – […]

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Nine governments and 15 ministers have come and gone during the career of Galit Cohen in the Environmental Protection Ministry, but she has never left – but she has never been so worried about future before Lee Yaron Apr 12, 2023 Three months after announcing her retirement from the job of director general of the […]

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The OECD highlighted how the discovery of offshore gas fields led Israel to transition out of coal and toward natural gas for electricity generation and improved the country’s energy security.  By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Published: APRIL 4, 2023 Environment and Climate in the Middle East editor’s note: read beyond the headline Israeli greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]

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Najib Saab 2/4/2023 An environment minister once told me: “We are the Ministry of Environment, so we don’t deal in politics.” I immediately realized that his ministry would not succeed in making any serious progress, because the ministry is indeed a political entity, whose mission is to set legislation and laws that protect the environment, […]

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Under high-emissions scenarios, approximately 123 people per 100,000 in MENA are predicted to die annually from heat-related causes – nearly 60 times greater than current figures. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: APRIL 4, 2023 Iran is expected to have the highest annual death rate from the heat in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) by […]

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11/4/2023 The Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD) has introduced the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) planning programme in line with UAE’s Year of Sustainability. The SEA programme will aid in evaluating environmental impacts and guiding the investigation of alternatives and potential mitigation and monitoring efforts associated with strategic projects, plans, and development programmes. The programme will promote […]

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