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 […]
CategoriesOur OpinionBy: Dr. Mohammad Eyadat Chairman of NCEJ The National Center for Environmental Justice Fifty years after the Stockholm Declaration, do we still only have one land? It is that question and the question that is still wrestling itself between reality, ambition and hope, between liberal, capitalist and developmental, between those who know and those who […]
CategoriesOur NewsAs a first stage of the implementation of the project to Promote home Aquaponics through environmental empowerment in the face of the COVID19 crisis, the National Center for Environmental Justice held, over two days, training sessions for targeted youth groups of both sexes on the mechanisms of environmental marketing. NCEJ: As a first stage of […]
CategoriesOur NewsThe first phase of the project “Promoting home hydroponics through environmental empowerment in the face of the Corona crisis” funded by the Ministry of Environment – Environmental Protection Fund was launched today in the northern Jordan Valley, in the presence of Dr. Ahmed Obeidat, representing the Minister of Environment, and Mr. Uday Shoman, Acting Director […]
CategoriesOur NewsAs a deputy for His Excellency the Minister of Environment, Dr. Ahmed Obeidat, Adviser to the Minister of Environment and media spokesperson for the Ministry launched the project “Promoting home Aquaponics through environmental empowerment in the face of the Corona crisis”, which is implemented by the National Center for Environmental Justice with funding from the […]
CategoriesNewsThe environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas. In combination, the security and […]
CategoriesNewsIt will take years to clear the damage and rebuild, experts told ABC News. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, environmental experts and activists are warning of a ripple effect of problems, including long-lasting damage to the war-ravaged country’s urban, agricultural and industrial areas. Nearly two months into its invasion, Russia has begun its long-feared […]
CategoriesNewsIn an effort to ease Americans’ pain at the gas pump, President Joe Biden has announced his administration will ease restrictions on the sale of E15 — gasoline that includes 15 percent ethanol — and new investments in biofuels as a whole. But the decision hasn’t pleased scientists who study the environmental impact of ethanol. […]