International efforts are needed to find solutions to Iraq’s water crisis, the UN envoy to the country has said. Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable nation to climate breakdown, impacted by high temperatures, droughts and frequent dust storms, presenting a serious threat to the livelihood, according to the UN. “There is a feeling that there is an […]
Oil and gas are still an important part of global energy systems, no matter how much one might hope otherwise, but the world needed to switch from them to tackle climate change, a renewable energy official has said. Gauri Singh, deputy director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), said the two fossil fuels had always […]
UN member states have reached agreement on the first international treaty to protect the high seas following years of talks, a step that environmental groups say will help reverse marine biodiversity losses and ensure sustainable development. “The ship has reached the shore,” conference chair Rena Lee announced at the UN headquarters in New York on Saturday […]
Business as usual in climate finance is not enough, said Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s Minister of State for International Co-operation, on the second day of the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi. Ms Al Hashimy said funds are not being allocated efficiently to countries that are transitioning or in need of capital for development, especially when it comes […]
Mobile and digital technology can help cut about 40 per cent of the required carbon dioxide emissions within the industrial world’s top emitters in the next 10 years, London-based industry body GSMA has said. If deployed at scale, digitalisation, considered a key enabler of the decarbonisation transition, can help the manufacturing, power and energy, transport, and building sectors […]
The number of renewable energy projects, including solar plants, expected to tap into capital markets for financing is set to rise in the six-member GCC economic bloc, S&P Global Ratings has said. The UAE and Saudi Arabia — the Arab world’s two largest economies — have already set up public-private partnership frameworks, making project financing an “obvious […]
More must be done to accelerate green investments in the Mena region and help it make a sustainable transition, climate advocates and business leaders said in Cairo. Better investment will increase employment opportunities and boost economic development, Tarek Tawfik, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Mena Regional Council and president of AmCham Egypt, said on Sunday. “Countries […]
Expo Live, a legacy project of Expo 2020 Dubai, is on the lookout for start-ups searching for concrete solutions to the climate crisis and combat global warming. Selected companies will be awarded a $50,000 grant for work related to reforestation, reduction of greenhouse gases or improving agricultural productivity. Successful innovators will have the opportunity to display their […]
Russia, the world’s second-largest oil exporter, may have slowed down efforts to tackle methane emissions from its energy sector as it seeks new export markets for its products amid Western sanctions. Before the war broke out on February 24 last year, Russian oil and gas exporters — under pressure from European customers — were investing in equipment […]
Surfers and city workers gathered to clean up Sunset Beach on Sunday after thousands of nurdles, little plastic balls, were washed ashore. Beachgoers in Dubai shared the photos of the clean-up on social media. Candy Fanucci, who leads the Pirates Surf Rescue Dubai and Abu Dhabi group, and led the clean-up, told The National: “It happened around […]
