Saudi Arabia hosted Saudi Green Initiative in Riyadh – a much-awaited event that set out the Kingdom’s ambitious environmental agenda. But the event is not only covered Saudi efforts to fight climate change but also rallied the broader Middle East region to comply with international targets, including limiting global warming to below 2° C compared […]
International and Saudi Arabia-based entities are showing their support for the nonprofit foundation Catmosphere’s campaign “Catwalk,” set to take place on November 6, Arab News reports. The campaign is a seven-kilometer outdoor walk, with big cat lovers being invited to join from anywhere around the world. Founded by the Saudi ambassador to the US, Princess […]
With the survival of our species at stake, meet six activist groups who refuse to go quietly. We’re thankful to The Guardian for the brilliant review. Cover photo by Oleg Andros. Ocean Rebellion: ‘It feels like David and Goliath’ Ocean Rebellion, a group that fights to protect the high seas, emerged from the broader […]
Prolonged heat has ruined agriculture and dried up rivers in Madagascar. The starving population feeds on cacti and livestock feed, The Independent states. Such a drought on the island happened for the first time in the last 40 years. In the south of Madagascar, some people died of hunger. The UN named them the first […]
Media indicate that the 26th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-26) is the most prominent summit of its kind since the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, which resulted in the Paris Climate Agreement. What happened at Cop26 On November 1 – day one at a glance Let’s take […]
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and Ewec (Emirates Water and Electricity Company) have launched a landmark clean energy partnership, the largest of its kind in the oil and gas industry, which will see up to 100% of Adnoc’s grid power supplied by Ewec’s nuclear and solar clean energy sources, GDN online reports. The […]
As part of its mission to power e-mobility, ABB will be showcasing its all-in-one Electric Vehicle (EV) charger at Expo 2020 Dubai, which can deliver up to 100 km of range in less than three minutes, GDN online reports. Coinciding with the company’s ABB Day celebrations on December 13, the Terra 360 will make its […]
Ahmed Al Hai Al Hamli, UAE Ambassador to Turkmenistan, has met with Allanur Altyev, Minister of Agriculture and Environment Protection of Turkmenistan. At the meeting, they discussed several issues of mutual interest. During the meeting, held at the ministry’s headquarters, Al Hamli delivered a message from Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and […]
Iraqi farmers face drought, a significant drop in annual rainfall, and growing salinity in the once water-rich country. Let’s check Middle East Eye story about it, written in 2018. *** The blazing sun beats down on Mohammed Khalil Ibrahim as he points to what is left of his date palms and the damage caused by […]
Extreme heat, in addition to rising sea levels, is having an impact on antiquities and cities overlooking the Mediterranean in Egypt. Egyptian archaeologists are sounding the alarm over the threat climate change and pollution are posing to the country’s unique ancient heritage, with an increasing number of wildfires and rising sea levels presenting a risk […]
