Arab Forum for Environment & Development Launches Programmes at UNEP Governing Council 7/2/2007

Developing a common market for environmentally-friendly technologies and products is among the aims of a new initiative called the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) whose forward-looking work programme was announced today. ...more

China Shifts Gears 1/1/2007 Kelly Sims Gallagher

Automakers, oil, pollution and development Transfer of cleaner and more energy-efficient technologies to the Chinese automobile industry ...more

Mediterranean Threatened by Development 1/1/2007

Development pressures threaten to overwhelm the Mediterranean by 2025, says Blue Plan report. Study also recommends solutions for minimizing the damage. ...more

Wild Borneo 1/1/2007 Nick Garbutt and J. Cede Prudente

The island of Borneo is a place of great natural beauty and rich biodiversity. ...more

Project Sky Hole Patching 1/1/2007

Tackling Illegal Trade in Ozone-depleting Substances and Dangerous Waste ...more

Squashed Insects Greetings from your Windshield... 1/10/2006 Volker Steger

Now, what's that gunk on my car? Clearly most victims of traffic accidents aren't human, they arent't even vertebrates. ...more

Helping Lebanon minimize environmental damage 1/9/2006 Habib El-Habr

News in the past two months has been dominated by the situation in Lebanon. Not only is Lebanon a member state of the UNEP Regional Office for West Asia, the home of the Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia editorial team, it is also my family home. ...more

Rehabilitating Lebanon's environment 1/9/2006 Achim Steiner

You can clean up the language of war and conflict-smart bombs, surgical strikes, collateral damage, friendly fire-but cleaning up the consequences is a far harder task. ...more

Arab Public Opinion & the Environment Report of 18-Country Survey 1/6/2006 Dr. Mostafa K. Tolba and Najib Saab

The survey on environmental trends in Arab countries was organized by Al-Bia Wal- Tanmia (Environment & Development) magazine, in cooperation with the Regional Office for West Asia of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/ROWA) and the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE). ...more

Inventing for the Environment 1/4/2006 Arthur Molella and Joyce Bedi

"Inventing for the Environment" consists of a collection of essays written by specialists in a wide variety of fields; they include environmental, science technology and business historians as well as engineers, scientists, architects and town planners. ...more