Gulf Stevedoring Contracting Company (GSCCO), part of the Gulftainer group of companies, has announced enhancements to Jubail Commercial Port. With the completed upgrades, the port now has the capacity to process 1.8 million twenty-foot containers (TEU’s) per year, WAM states. By increasing export volumes in Jubail, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia exporters will have the […]
The prestigious energy and sustainability-focused global platform, World Future Energy Summit 2022, hosted by Masdar as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, will hold three sustainable development events for the benefit of project owners, government entities and investors in the Middle East region, WAM reports. The Water Expo & Forum, the Smart Cities Forum, and […]
The “Forever Green” campaign to expand green areas in Bahrain and contribute to the fight against climate change has succeeded in greening 12 sites across the Kingdom, BNA reports. The National Initiative launched the ambitious campaign for Agricultural Development (NIAD). It has received generous support from the private sector in a demonstration of the robust […]
The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – COP26 ended on 14 November in Scotland. After two weeks of international climate talks, the countries of the world signed the Glasgow Climate Pact. The document calls on governments to improve their climate targets as early as next year and […]
Members of the Iraq and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) delegations at the 26th United Nations Global Climate Summit in Glasgow, United Kingdom, have told Rudaw that they are committed to climate action ahead of the final COP26 deal. Iraq and the KRG have already supported targets, including reducing methane emissions, preserving the forest and land […]
It’s time we introspect if we are morally and socially eligible to inhabit worlds when we are competing for our own destruction in our beautiful blue planet, the only place we can call it home, claims Jaykhosh Chidambaran in his article for the Arabian Stories. Mark Watney, the stranded astronaut and protagonist of the book […]
In the 21st century, we must embody a new “green” industrial revolution that must be bigger than the previous two in the 19th and 20th centuries, says Oleg Savitsky, an expert on climate and energy policy of the Ukrainian Climate Network. Let’s check his opinion published in the European Truth. *** The international negotiations of […]
Chevron says it failed to meet Western Australia’s target of capturing at least 80% of the CO2 that would otherwise be released at its Gorgon LNG project, The Guardian reports. Australia’s only working carbon capture and storage project in Western Australia has failed to meet its target to lock away greenhouse gases from a major […]
The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), in partnership with Borouge, has launched a podcast as part of a series of episodes titled “Naturally Educated”, WAM reports. The podcast focuses on important environmental topics, hosting an expert who will be sharing their knowledge and experience. It will be on the EAD’s Sustainable Campus Initiative (SCI) […]
The seventh Dubai International Nutrition Congress (DINC) started on November 4 under the theme, “Challenges, Resilience and Sustainability in Nutrition”. The three-day congress is taking place in a hybrid format in Dubai. Organized by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), in cooperation with Index Conferences and Exhibitions and certain regional and international organisations, the DINC aims […]
