Teams of undergraduates in the UAE have been thrown the challenge to come up with new ideas to develop the country’s transportation infrastructure of the future. University teams from across the UAE will conceptualize hyperloop portals, plan optimum routes and design associated infrastructure to connect the ports of Jebel Ali, Dubai and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, […]
Overcoming poverty, electrifying inaccessible areas, and achieving carbon neutrality: how and where are such technologies implemented? Let’s find the answers, thankfully to Rubryka. *** A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2018, states that an increase in temperature of even 1.5° C will lead to irreversible environmental changes. According to scientists, […]
We collected the most unusual solutions for the benefit of the environment from around the world. Let’s check this compilation, thankfully to the “Rubryka”. What is the problem? Climate change is a global problem. Forest fires, powerful hurricanes, swarms of earthquakes, droughts, abnormal floods and frosts – what other cataclysms must occur for humanity […]
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 […]
His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Chairman of the NEOM Company Board of Directors, today announced the establishment of OXAGON, forming the next phase of NEOM’s master plan and representing a radical new model for future manufacturing centers, based on NEOM’s strategies of redefining the way humanity lives and works […]
What’s the real difference between “phase out” and “phase down”? Let’s read the explanation by Reuters Asia Commodities Columnist Clyde Russell. *** This semantic exercise is receiving considerable attention in the wake of a compromise on coal reached at the weekend at the conclusion of the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow. For those committed to […]
U.N. climate talks ended Saturday with a deal that for the first time targeted fossil fuels as the key driver of global warming, even as coal-reliant countries lobbed last-minute objections. While the agreement won applause for keeping alive the hope of capping global warming at 1.5° C, many of the nearly 200 national delegations wished […]
Negotiators took the two-week U.N. climate talks in Scotland into an extra day on November 13, wrestling with a fresh draft of an agreement intended to give the world a realistic shot at avoiding the worst effects of global warming. A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 […]
The COP26 climate talks have high hopes, as the world is already feeling the effects of the failure of the Kyoto Protocol, which failed to change the trajectory of the world economy 20 years ago. The Paris Agreement is designed to do just that, and the Glasgow talks are a turning point. Let’s start our […]
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD, and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has received Andreas Feicht, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of Germany, to discuss ways to consolidate cooperation in the areas of clean energy. During the meeting, Al Tayer highlighted the importance of strengthening strategic cooperation […]
