While awareness has increased and steps have been taken to tackle climate change in Qatar and the GCC region, more needs to be done now, Neeshad Shafi states. The author is an environmentalist, speaker, and policy-oriented social change advocates, best known for his work on environmental and climate change policy in the Gulf and the […]
The popularity of the Black Friday promotion is growing from year to year. According to analytics platform Periscope by McKinsey, 60% of consumers from the UK, France, and Germany were planning to participate in the November 27 sales in 2020, up 10% from 2019. In the United States, the number of participants in the traditional […]
If the banana is in your grocery basket, then there is enough rainfall in India or Ecuador. And a bottle of beer next to it suggests that barley from Ukraine, China, or another part of the world has not been exposed to dangerous fluctuations in weather conditions. An apple from Turkey got into the basket […]
How much will global warming cost the world? Droughts, forest fires, drying of rivers are the effects of heat, which are increasingly observed on an increasingly threatening scale worldwide. However, abnormally high temperatures affect not only nature but also humanity and the economy. Let’s check the Chas News story about how many lives the heat […]
Looking back over the past decade, we can conclude that the pace of progress in the fight against climate change has been too slow. Carbon emissions continued to rise, and although they decreased in 2020 due to coronavirus lockdowns, in 2021, carbon emissions will return to their “consistently high levels,” Financial Times reports. According to […]
Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 wealthy nations have failed to agree on the wording of crucial climate change commitments in their final communique, Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said on July 23, Reuters reports. The G20 ministers failed to reach an agreement in Naples on a common goal – to […]
In Canada and Russia recently an abnormal heat was observed – almost +50° C. And in Kuwait, one of the warmest countries in the world, it is “more than +70° C in the sun”, according to local media. Has global warming led to this? Will it always be this way now? And is it possible […]
In mid-July, downpours of historic intensity occurred in several regions of Western Europe, causing many rivers to overflow their banks. Particularly affected are areas in western Germany in the lands of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. According to German meteorologists, a monthly rainfall fell per night in some areas, and such rains have not been seen […]
Documentary makers and environmental activists, including British teenager Bella Lack, on July 12 said they hoped to inspire more efforts on climate change through several films with hopeful messages presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The world’s biggest cinema showcase is back after a 2020 hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has this year […]
World Future Energy Summit, part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, has signed key stakeholder agreements with the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, Bee’ah and EDF Renewables, WAM reports. The event, which provides a platform to showcase clean energy and sustainable projects, initiatives, and developments for the Middle East – will be held in Abu Dhabi’s […]
