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Climate Change: Challenge of Tomorrow, Solution for Today 3/9/2009

Is it true that combating climate change hampers efforts to tackle pressing issues in the Arab world such as poverty, hunger, water scarcity and pollution? Some people bring this question up for debate, based on the assumption that the issue of climate change is a form of luxury that developing countries, including Arab states, do not have the capacity nor the resources to deal with. Moreover, some claim that combating climate change is a conspiracy against the development and modernization of such countries. ...more

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Climate Change: from intentions to actions 2/6/2009

The Arab ministerial declaration on Climate Change issued by the Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) at the end of 2007, has placed for the first time the official Arab finger on the climate change wound, but did not evolve yet to an action plan with specific objectives and targets. ...more

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The Environment in Lebanese Elections 1/4/2009

Will the Parliamentary elections in Lebanon be a serious beginning to put environment on the political agenda? Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora launched the discussion about this issue by his speech at the ceremony for the presentation of the annual report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) in Beirut last month. He considered the facts and figures presented by the report as a "slap on our faces that may awaken us to what we have caused of damage in our environment and the delay in taking corrective measures throughout the years". ...more