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

MOHAMED EL-ASHRY Arabs gain from strong climate deal  7/12/2015

Climate change, once considered an issue for the future, has now moved firmly into the present...more

NAJIB SAAB AFED Environment Survey in 22 Countries: Public ready to shift consumption patterns, Lebanese Least Confident in Government  9/11/2015

The Arab public is ready to pay more for energy and water and embrace changes in consumption patterns if this will help preserve resources and protect the environment, according to a survey carried out by Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) in 22 countries....more

NAJIB SAAB When Amateurs Administer People’s Affairs  2/10/2015

Landfills don’t solve the garbage problem, as much as producing more food doesn’t solve the hunger problem. Although part of the solution, both approaches are examples of partial measures bearing the seeds of bigger problems....more