NAJIB SAAB Arab development must be people-centric  21/4/2016

Meeting the target of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is an uphill challenge for most Arab countries...more

The Economist Green giant Mostafa Tolba: A creator of the successful regime to reduce global emissions has died  4/4/2016

Educated in Cairo and London, Dr Tolba helped found the institutions of modern climate diplomacy...more

Mazen Bachir Household Waste: Exporting Is not an Option - Part 2  4/3/2016

The main treatment methods for Solid Waste include:Composting, Anaerobic Digestion and Incineration. All 3 are needed and applicable in Lebanon, but have to follow international standards. Separate Guidelines governing best practice related to the 3 may be provided separately. Suffice to say for now that the main driver of the plan will be to limit landfill bound waste, and that that size constraints for the above, can roughly be defined as follows...more

Mazen Bachir Household Waste: Exporting is not an Option - Part 1  3/3/2016

Not so far away from the political tug of war, driven by adverse interests, there actually does exist a substantially developed and world-proven, tried and tested methodology for handling municipal solid waste in countries, irrespective of their development levels. ...more

Alessandro Galli Greece’s Other Deficit  18/12/2015

For the past decade, much attention has been paid to Greece’s public finances...more

NAJIB SAAB Paris is a reality to which Arabs must adapt  17/12/2015

As a good climate agreement was sealed in Paris last week, the Arab Forum for Environment and Development can be proud to have been part of the process...more

NAJIB SAAB Who pays the bill at Climate Summit?  11/12/2015

Second week of negotiations at the Climate Summit in Paris is overshadowed by the question of who pays the bill...more

Ashok Khosla Another dead end?  10/12/2015

Over the past fifty years, the governments of poor countries have been in hot pursuit of their chimeric dreams of bringing development to their nations. Armed with an arsenal of economic weapons borrowed from their friends in the North, they have lanced this way and that, hoping to destroy the scourges of poverty: hunger, ignorance and early death. What they, with a few exceptions, have got instead is more poverty, more pollution, and more people. ...more