Action on climate change must be at the heart of Lebanon’s recovery from the financial crisis, the country’s environment minister said on October 26, The National reports. “Climate change will continue to accelerate some of the shocks we are seeing in the country,” Nasser Yassin told an online UN panel. He said that environmental protection […]
Let’s check the official text from the Office of the Iraqi President. Mesopotamia Revitalization Project: A Climate Change initiative to Transform Iraq and The Middle East Addressing climate change must become a national priority for Iraq. The country is one of the most at-risk from climate-change impact; according to the UN Environment Program, Iraq is […]
Arab Youth Survey 2021 findings show close to half believe governments should do more to address climate change, The National News reports. A survey shows that more than half of young Arabs – 5% – are concerned about climate change. The same number said they would boycott a brand if it was operating in a […]
Eco-activist Max Zalewski made me think about private jets on COP26. He asked a topical question to all conspiracy theorists: how did you imagine the daily lives of the world elite? Forbes and the BBC published articles about world leaders who flew to Glasgow for the climate summit on private planes, then ate venison and […]
The endgame of COP26 has begun. In the early hours of November 10 morning, the U.K. hosts published a draft text that urged countries to improve their climate targets by next year. Now the other 196 nations are digesting its contents and starting to push back. One of the most contentious clauses is a commitment […]
Exotic pets could be harmful to the Sultanate of Oman’s ecosystem and accordingly Environment Authority has taken a stern action. The Environment Authority has suspended granting of permits to import wild reptiles and insects to the country, Oman Observer reports. For now, permits will be given for import of wild reptiles and insects for scientific […]
Let’s get acquainted with the opinion written by the president of Iraq for the Financial Times. He believes that the country can generate green industries and sustainable energy to combat threat of drought and desertification. *** Iraq has been buffeted by ill winds over the past 40 years. Wars, sanctions, terrorism and domestic conflict have […]
The British startup has presented a new device – a power bank on wheels for emergency charging of electric cars. According to the manufacturer, in 30 minutes, the ZipCharge Go charges enough to travel up to 32 km. The ZipCharge Go is a suitcase-sized power bank that can be used to charge a depleted electric […]
South African officials are investigating an alarming rise in seal deaths along the west coast near Cape Town, with malnutrition as one potential cause. A Reuters photographer saw scores of seal carcasses on beaches in Cape Town and along the rugged Atlantic Ocean coastline north of the city last week. Several more dead seals were […]
The 18th IRF (International Roads Federation) World Meeting & Exhibition has held a first panel (Roads to Tomorrow: Pathways to Sustainable Mobility) on the opening day of the event, which runs through November 10th. Participants in the session included Abou-Zeid, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, African Union Commission, Mark Boris Andrijanič, Slovenian Minister for Digital […]
