BRICS and sustainable development worries
Michael Simire - 30-Mar-2013
BRICS and sustainable development worries
Michael Simire - 30-Mar-2013
Cost of conserving the forest, curbing emission
Michael Simire - 30-Mar-2013
Cost of conserving the forest, curbing emission
Michael Simire - 30-Mar-2013
Climate change: Lagos may upgrade urban plans
Michael Simire - 22-Mar-2013
Climate change: Lagos may upgrade urban plans
Michael Simire - 22-Mar-2013
New Momentum For Shark Conservation Balances out Established Commercial Interests
AGUS SALIM - 14-Mar-2013
Bangkok, 11 March 2013 | By Mona Samari The much anticipated series of debates on the proposals to list under CITES five endangered species of sharks were today supported by more than the two-thirds majority of voting countries needed for adoption. At the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties to CITES, proposals from various governments to list oceanic whitetip sharks, porbeagles, hammerheads, manta rays, and freshwater sawfish under CITES were put forward in order to limit...
New Momentum For Shark Conservation Balances out Established Commercial Interests
anthony spencer - 14-Mar-2013
Bangkok, 11 March 2013 | By Mona Samari The much anticipated series of debates on the proposals to list under CITES five endangered species of sharks were today supported by more than the two-thirds majority of voting countries needed for adoption. At the sixteenth meeting of the Conference of Parties to CITES, proposals from various governments to list oceanic whitetip sharks, porbeagles, hammerheads, manta rays, and freshwater sawfish under CITES were put forward in order to limit...
Lebanese Landfill Gas as "Green" Energy
Bassam Alkantar - 23-Jan-2013
Isn't it cleaner to burn landfill gas to make energy than to just flare it? Al-akhbar is trying to discuss this hot issue in Lebanon. Bassam Alkantar - Al-akhbar newspaper . Read a version of this story in Arabic
Egypt to Enter the Era of Clean Development
Abeer Fouad - 28-Dec-2012
The balance between reducing pollution emissions and financial commitments made to address the impact of this pollution remains the hottest equation of the climate change negotiations. In fact, it isn't fair for developing countries to have the responsibility of filling the funding gap because they are the least responible for the emissions and at the same time are the most vulnerable to damage. This is the Egyptian viewpoint as presented by Dr. Mustafa Hussein Kamel, Minister of State for...
Warnings of Low Nile River Water Level in the Coming Years
Abeer Fouad - 28-Dec-2012
Climate change issues aren't limited to the science of climate change, energy, water and agriculture issues. Actually, the first and last word on the subject remain firmly in the realm of global policy and economy. This is the the clear result of the 18th United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Doha. After 13 days of intense negotiations, countries agreed to extend the Kyoto Protocol for the second commitment period as the only existing agreement binding to cut greenhouse...
COP18: A Mixed Record
Dalia Abdel Salam El Dessouky - 26-Dec-2012
Thus far, the major concrete achievement at this years climate negotiations COP18 was the extension of the Kyoto Protocol second commitment period, starting from January 2013 and ending in 2020. An achievement considered as symbolic after Canada, Japan and Russia withdrew the protocol. The second commitment period now involves the European Union and a few additional countries including Australia. These countries' emissions represent 15% of total global greenhouse gas emissions! In...
What Climate Change Means for the Middle East and North Africa
Dalia Abdel Salam El Dessouky - 26-Dec-2012
During COP18, held in Doha, Qatar, the World Bank launched an alarming report on Climate Change impact in the Middle East and North Africa Regions. The first region is suffering from drought, the second from poverty and both will receive the most negative impact of Climate Change. “Raising temperature and drought will have a catastrophic impact on agriculture and tourism”, said Rachel Kyte, World Bank, vice president. A sea level rise of 0.5 meter will put 30% of the city of Alexandria in...
Momentum for Change ‘Lighthouse’ Awards Highlight Sustainable Successes
Abeer Fouad - 26-Dec-2012
In Doha, during COP18, the 2012 the Momentum for Change ‘Lighthouse’ awards recognised nine organizations that had created transformational, replicable and scalable low-carbon initiatives, which delivered environmental and social benefits to the urban poor. Winners included a solar lighting initiative in Uganda aimed at providing women with ‘a business in a bag’ start-up kit; an affordable, climate friendly Bus Rapid Transport System in India; and a program in Latin America to train...
CLIMATE RISK FORECASTING
Njenga Hakeenah - 19-Dec-2012
Anticipating Change to eliminate risk By Njenga Hakeenah 19th December 2012 “Climate change is real. It is underway and will intensify in the coming decades, posing far-reaching risks and impacts for virtually all private companies.” This is the damning future the world is heading into if reduction of Green House Gas Emissions does not start now. The World Bank Group says in its report, “Turn Down the Heat; Why a 4 Degree Warmer World Must be Avoided”, that forward-looking firms that...
World Bank: Arab world hit hard by climate change
Noorhan Barakat - 12-Dec-2012
[with inputs from wire services] Doha, Qatar: Global warming will have dire consequences for the Middle East and North Africa, with even hotter and drier conditions devastating everything from agriculture to tourism, a World Bank report said on Wednesday( December 5). On current trends, average temperatures in Arab countries are likely to rise by as much as three degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) by 2050 - and double that for night-time temperatures, said the report released at UN climate...
Plans for Carbon Capturing and storage in GCC to cut carbon emissions
Noorhan Barakat - 12-Dec-2012
Doha, Qatar The UAE plans to invest in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) to use carbon dioxide for oil extraction, to both protect the environment and prepare for a time when oil levels get lower in the country. Arafat Al Yafei, Manager of Carbon Dioxide/Nitrogen Development Section at ADNOC Exploration & Production Directorate spoke about ADNOC’s pilot CCS project that started in 2009- 2011 in Al Rumeitha. Al Yafei spoke at the sidelines of the UN Climate talks COP18, titled “Carbon...
Momentum for Change: 2012 Lighthouse Activities
Abeer Fouad - 09-Dec-2012
As part of its Momentum for Change Initiative, the United Nations Climate Change secretariat has presenting the latest round of public-private “lighthouse activities” in developing countries which either help to curb greenhouse gas emissions or help people adapt to climate change, while at the same time benefit the urban poor. Momentum for Change aims to strengthen motivation, spur innovation and catalyze further change towards a low-emission, high resilient future. The nine activities have...
Arab Youth Ejected and De-Badged from COP18
Bassam Alkantar - 09-Dec-2012
Arab youths Raied from Libya and Anis from Algeria were ejected from climate conference for holding up a banner that asked Qatar to take a lead on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Bassam Alkantar - Al-akhbar newspaper . Read a version of this story in Arabic
COP18: Kyoto is the key to unlocking the deal
Bassam Alkantar - 07-Dec-2012
Funding to help poor countries deal with the fallout from global warming and convert to planet-friendlier energy sources emerged as a key sticking point between negotiators from nearly 200 countries at the talks in Doha, Qatar. Developed countries were pressed to show how they intend to keep a promise to raise climate funding for poor countries to US$100 billion (76 billion euros) per year by 2020 -- up from a total of US$30 billion in 2010-2012. Developing countries say...
