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Energy poverty is at the heart of OPEC Fund for International Development’s mission. Today, all OFID financial windows contribute to the alleviation of energy poverty. Indeed, OFID has developed a wide spectrum of financial tools ranging from grants to market-based instruments. ...more |
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Petra, a 2,500-year-old city in Jordan, is one of the world’s most revered cultural sites. But time and tourism are taking their toll on its monuments, carved into sandstone cliffs. ...more |
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| “The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water” is a recent report launched in February of this year by Strategic Foresight Group, a think tank group based in India with support from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and the Department of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland. ...more |
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In 1992, the international community gathered in Rio to offer a vision for a more sustainable future. At that meeting, two new international environmental agreements were opened for signature: the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. ...more |
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A pivotal point in climate negotiations has always been the principle of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’. This point continues to be a source of huge differences between developed and developing countries. ...more |
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If Arab scientists want to play a role in climate change policy in the Arab world, then they desperately need to offer better-informed science ...more |
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Hazardous Wastes are usually defined based on their nature, characteristics and potential adverse impacts on human health and the environment. From a legal point of view, such a definition is derived from one or more of the following intrinsic properties of wastes: Explosive, Flammable, Corrosive, Infectious, Poisonous, Toxic and/or Eco-toxic. Furthermore, taking into consideration the well-known “Precautionary Principle”, any unknown (suspicious) waste is hazardous until proven otherwise, any waste (residue) derived from hazardous waste is hazardous, and a mixture of hazardous (no matter how small) and none hazardous wastes should be deemed hazardous in its entirety. ...more |
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CEDRO stands for ‘Community Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration project for the Recovery of Lebanon’. It stands for cedar tree in the Spanish language given that the Spanish government donated 9.73 million USD via the Lebanon Recovery Fund (LRF) to establish the CEDRO project in 2007 in the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon. ...more |
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During the mayors’ workshop of Bint Jebail district of south Lebanon that took place in March 2010, Mrs. Adla Toubeh of Aitaroun, the most happy beneficiary of the GVC-LATA Greywater (GW) Project expressed her satisfaction from the performance of her 4-barrel type GW treatment system and drip irrigation network. She had brought with her a basket-full of high quality lemons that were grown at her backyard, by using the treated GW. ...more |
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The Arctic has lost about a third of its ice during thepast 30 years. A record meltdown last summer shrank its sea ice down to 4.2 million square kilometers, from 7.8 million in 1980. If melting continues at this increasing rate, scientists project that the Arctic summer could be ice-free by 2013. ...more |
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