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Daily Star
Lebanon high emitter of greenhouse gases
Energy sector behind most emissions
Lebanon emits more greenhouse gases per capita than the world average, said an Environment Ministry expert during a workshop held at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on Monday. (August 2009)
Liz Sly (Los Angeles Times)
Iraq in throes of environmental catastrophe, experts say
Now-frequent dust storms are just one sign of the man-made damage that has taken the country from Middle East breadbasket to dust bowl, they say. (July 2009)
Mohamed A Raouf (Arab Reform Initiative)
Climate change negotiations: Will the Arab world take the right decision?
There is irony in the current financial crisis. The quest to follow the West’s development model, without taking into consideration its negative side or balancing the positive and negative factors has impacted many countries severely. (February 2009)
Ahmad Khatib (The Daily Star)
Climate change threatens to kill off Lebanon's cedars
Ahmad Khatib shows how that the Country's treasured trees could disappear due to global warming. (February 2009)
Nicholas Kimbrell (The Daily Star)
Land and People focuses on its namesakes
Kimbrell shows how that an AUB professor has sparked series of initiatives to help rural areas stand on their own feet after the end of July 2006 war with Israel. (December 2008)
Mari Luomi (The Finish Institute of International Affairs)
The Arab World’s chronic disintegration – now in Poznan
Mari Luomi speaks about the UN Climate Change Conference, which convened in Poznan, Poland, and the role of Arabs participations in it. (December 2008)
Habib Maalouf (Assafir)
Climate Change and “Sustainable Cities” Proposal
Habib Maalouf discusses the "Global Greens Congress" in that took place São Paulo, Brazil, on May 1-5, 2008 and the prospective for the green parties work all over the globe. (May 2008)
Alister Doyle (Reuters)
World warming despite cool Pacific and Baghdad snow
In this article, Alister Doyle tackles the fact that climate change is still nudging up temperatures, even though it snowed in Baghdad for the first since long. She discusses this, showing how climate Global warming has not stopped even though 2008 was predicted to be the coolest year since 2000. (January 2008)
Michael T. Klare (AlterNet.org)
Preparing for Life After Oil
Michael T. Klare the professor of peace and world security shows how we are entering the age of insufficiency, where oil prices hit new highs and supplies sink, hence having our way of life drastically changed. (November 2007)
Fouad Hamdan (Executive Magcazine)
Arab States Ignore Climate Change
Arab Leaders are ignoring climate change at the peril of their people, argues Fouad Hamdan. Far from being the problem of a distant future, climate change is already affecting Arab countries. Hydrogen, a clean energy suitable to replace oil and petrol can be generated from solar energy. Timely investment in such technologies would more than offset any reduction in oil production, and put the region at the forefront of clean energy suppliers. (April 2007)
Suzanne Baaklini (L'Orient Le Jour)
Socio Economic Consequences at all Levels
Global Warming: More Drought and Heat in Lebanon
Suzanne Baaklini describes the potential effects of climate change on Lebanon, citing heat waves, floods, drought and desertification and their effects on the ecological system of Lebanon and the Lebanese economy, in particular tourism and agriculture, and suggests a number of measures to avoid these effects.(November 2005)
Habib Maalouf (As-Safir)
On the Edge of Climate Change: A Late Warning
A call for taking on Climate Change as one of the most serious challenges to the existing practices of global cooperation and economy, and to adjust values and behavior towards sustainability and responsibility. (February 2007)
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