The GCC alliance hopes for greater future economic growth in the Gulf. “The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has proven all skeptics wrong from day one until today,” Emirati political scientist Abdulkhaleq Abdulla told Al-Monitor. Forty years after the rulers of the six Gulf Arab states met on May 25, 1981, at the InterContinental Abu Dhabi […]
Kuwait, on August 29, announced plans to transform what was once a mammoth “tire graveyard” into a residential city. The 2-square-kilometer dump in the north of the oil-rich Gulf country was where tires went to die – a total of more than 40 million at the end. Seventeen years of tire dumping and three massive […]
Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has approved a proposal to build the Middle East’s first city to serve electric vehicle manufacturers, the authority said in a statement in August. The statement does not make clear where the project, called EV City, will be located. The design and construction tendering process will be during the 2011/22 fiscal […]
Retail giant Majid Al Futtaim (MAF) secured its first sustainability-linked loan with a value of 5.51 billion dirhams ($1.5 billion), said in a statement on August 31. The UAE-based retailer said the loan is part of its sustainability strategy, as it aims to facilitate and support environmentally and socially sustainable economic activity and growth. “The […]
Following a spill in Syria, a large oil slick that had been working its way across the Mediterranean towards Cyprus appears to have partially dissolved. However, its next move will depend on currents, The Guardian reports. The spill likened in size to New York City had threatened the island’s Karpas peninsula, a strip of pristine […]
On this day, in 1914, at the Cincinnati Zoo, USA, died the last migratory pigeon – the most massive species of animals ever destroyed by man. “What’s so special about it?” – the reader can ask after the statistics resulted nearby. The fact is that the story of the destruction of the wandering pigeon most […]
The share of renewables in Gulf states’ electricity generation is marginal, and the region still utilizes fossil-fuel driven power grids, but the potential for clean energy is substantial, Al-Monitor states. Electricity consumption in the Gulf region is reaching its annual peak as armies of energy-intensive air conditioners work at full throttle to insulate populations from […]
The UAE could become the first Gulf state to set a net-zero goal, raising questions over emissions of fossil fuels produced to power the global economy, Al-Monitor states. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is considering setting a net-zero goal, people familiar with the discussions told Bloomberg. If the federation of seven sheikhdoms and nearly 10 […]
The finance minister of Iraq, one of the founding members of the global oil cartel Opec, has made an unprecedented call to fellow oil producers to move away from fossil fuel dependency and into renewable energy, ahead of a key Opec meeting. Ali Allawi, who is also the deputy prime minister of Iraq, has written […]
Let’s check Ranvir S. Nayar story, written for Arab News. He’s managing editor of Media India Group. *** There should be a lot of cheer and laughter when conservationists and scientists from across the world gather at Marseille next week to attend the IUCN World Conservation Congress, 2020, the first hybrid global environmental event since […]
