To meet climate targets and avoid economic collapse, countries such as Iraq need international support in the transition to clean energy, Ali Allawi and Fatih Birol state in the article for The Guardian. Ali Allawi is deputy prime minister and finance minister of Iraq. Fatih Birol is the executive director of the International Energy Agency. […]
Each morning at a transit facility in Canton, Ohio, more than a dozen buses pull up to a fueling station before fanning out to their routes in this city south of Cleveland. The buses – made by El Dorado National and owned by the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority – look like any others. Yet […]
“The oil-producing countries work to translate their wealth into international influence, resulting in a geopolitics that more often than not reignites old conflicts, although it sometimes creates new ones.” Let’s get acquainted with the article by Alaa Abd El Fattah. He’s the webmaster of Panorama, and an Egyptian blogger, software developer, and political activist. He […]
The Governorate of Musandam boasts lots of tourism, archaeological and historic potentials due to its unique nature and geological make-up. Musandam is distinguished by its bays and its well-known strait, which, alongside the other landmarks, represent promising opportunities for investment in the tourism industry, Oman Observer states. Amna bint Ali al Shuhiyah, Director of Heritage […]
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 […]
One of the most complete descriptions of the ideas of moderate environmentalism, combined with a critique of countercultural ideas, is the work of American sociologists Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter “The Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can’t be Jammed” (2004). The authors believe that it is impossible to deny the whole system of capitalism and […]
The sooner each GCC country defines their specialised positions, the sooner they will be able to seize the opportunities of the new post-oil era. This is what Noha Al Dhahri, consultant from OCO Global, states in the Arabian Business article. As crude oil prices decreased in mid-2014, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) awoke to the […]
Some countries of the Persian Gulf are an example of how countries of a “temperate” climate will live if all forests and historically formed ecosystems are destroyed. In such a hypothetical (and apocalyptic) case, Europe, for example, would have to desalinate water, live in artificially air-conditioned cities, and grow fruits and vegetables not in open-air […]
Forest ecosystems give us a lot of benefits and ecosystem services. This is what scientists say at the international level and taken into account by officials when developing state budgets. We’ve written about what ecosystem services are and why we should pay for nature conservation here. Let’s get acquainted with the topic in more detail, […]
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 […]
