This week has brought us a new huge green hydrogen project announcement in the Middle East. Let’s begin from Egypt’s turn. The most populous Arab nation is planning to invest up to $4 billion in a project to create hydrogen through electrolysis powered by renewable energy, Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker […]
In a previous article, we talked about what ecosystem services are and why this concept, first presented in the 2005 document, now has an impact on the legislation of entire countries. To understand the topic better, I continue to refer to the explanations of zoologist Oleksiy Vasyliuk, the head of the Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group […]
Will the planet be saved by the “anti-growth” of the world economy? The idea looks tempting, but some experts prove that it’s wrong. Let’s check Knife arguments against it. Supporters of the idea of anti-growth believe that the main reason for environmental pollution is the irrepressible desire of mankind for economic development and enrichment. Andrew […]
Ecosystem services are the many and varied benefits to humans provided by the natural environment and from healthy ecosystems. Such ecosystems include, for example, agroecosystems, forest ecosystems, grassland ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems. These ecosystems, functioning in healthy relationships, offer such things like natural pollination of crops, clean air, extreme weather mitigation, and human mental and […]
The United Arab Emirates, like the rest of the world, is re-imagining its economy post-COVID. What might the UAE economy look like once Gulf countries turn a corner? Increasingly diverse is the answer. Let’s check a few predictions of UAE’s economic development in 2021+. And the first comes from ICAEW authors. The UAE economy depends […]
Let us introduce Jack Sargent and his blog post on LSE. He’s is a recent graduate of LSE’s History of International Relations MSc Programme. His research focuses on Middle Eastern regional security issues and nuclear proliferation. His dissertation examined the nuclear ambitions of the Shah of Iran. This author states that The Middle East will […]
A UAE newspaper has said that the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ move to launch “an unprecedented effort to heal the Earth”, a world awash in climate disruption and spiraling pollution, is truly praiseworthy, WAM reports. “This was done on the eve of World Environment Day,” said Gulf Today in an editorial on Monday. Kicking off […]
International Monetary Fund published a Concluding Statement that describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the end of an official staff visit. Fund concludes that the KSA authorities “responded quickly and decisively to the COVID-19 crisis” and the economic recovery that is underway is expected by IMF experts to continue. IMF projection that the […]
The cascading effect of the ‘Great Lockdown’ disrupted global supply chains and commercial activity. It caused a cumulative loss of around $4 trillion of economic output in the global economy, shrinking global GDP by 4.4% in 2020, according to an IMF report. As Jaykhosh Chidambaran states in his article, despite timely government intervention with fiscal […]
