CategoriesEnvironmental Articles Our News Our OpinionA recent report by Global Energy Monitor was issued on Tuesday, July 19, stating that the total renewable energy in the Arab world amounts to 73.4 gigawatts, concentrated in particular in solar and wind energy. By: Hanin Abu Alrub Head of Media Department – National Center for Environmental Justice The report showed that Jordan is […]
CategoriesEnvironmental ArticlesIn late July, the UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a draft resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Costa Rica, the Maldives, Morocco, Slovenia, and Switzerland presented the draft text to the 193-member Assembly, the UN’s most representative body, last June, following the landmark resolution adoption of […]
CategoriesNewsThe punishing heatwave that has triggered deadly wildfires across southwest Europe is poised to break temperature records in France, the United Kingdom and North Africa early this week, confirming scientists’ warnings that Western Europe has become a heatwave “hot spot”. Thousands of people in Portugal, Spain, France, and Morocco have been evacuated from their homes […]
CategoriesNewsEnvironmental groups have urged world leaders to keep promises they made at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon this week, to do everything in their power to save the world’s seas. “The ocean, climate and coastal communities worldwide need real progress, not promises, when it comes to ocean health,” Marco Lambertini, director-general of the World […]
