PADDY PADMANATHAN Renewable energy is the most cost competitive solution for the Arab region  31/1/2014

Even as we in MENA focus on increasing the efficiency of electricity utilization and seek to reduce energy intensity, demand will continue to grow at 7% on average across the region to support the disproportionately (as compared to many other geographic regions of the world) ...more

GLADA LAHN To whom energy subsidies are?  21/1/2014

An article published in Al-Hayat newspaper on 3 November, quoted me as a participant at the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) annual...more

NAJIB SAAB Energy for the real poor  17/1/2014

With its energy consumption growing twice as fast as its economic growth, the Arab region is among the least efficient in the world. The report...more

LEILA DAGHER Nuclear Economics: One size cannot fit all  20/12/2013

Literature on nuclear power reveals a clear lack of consensus on its economic viability. Claims as contradicting as “nuclear power offers electricity too cheap to meter” to “nuclear power is the most expensive source of electricity” abound....more

NAJIB SAAB Climate refugees: The worst is to come   14/12/2013

Dozens of Lebanese seeking new opportunities in Australia lost their lives when a boat carrying them from an island in Indonesia capsized....more

Jamal Khashoggi Saudis begin to live the ‘green’ life  11/11/2013

The Saudi people’s mood has greatly improved in recent days, although the state did not raise salaries and did not accomplish any of the residential projects they promised to accomplish three years ago....more

NAJIB SAAB Revolutions do not Substitute Resource Management  11/11/2013

So how can a regional organization dedicated to environment adapt to the bitter reality in an area where more than half the population witness revolts and uprisings? It appears almost impossible to implement an environmental agenda in a region whose inhabitants struggle for survival and are totally uncertain about their future....more

NAJIB SAAB Arabs do not read  4/10/2013

Edgar Choueiri, Princeton University plasma physicist, questioned how the Arabs could become full and equal partners with those who shape the world’s economy, security and future, if they remain just consumers of science and technology rather than producers. He contested the rhetoric about the contributions which ancient Arab civilizations had made to physics, biology, mathematics and astronomy, saying that this is something of a remote past....more