Volume 14, No.133, April 2009
7 Environment in Lebanese elections (editorial by Najib Saab)
10 Time to integrate environmental cost in the national budget ( by Fuad Siniora, Lebanon’s prime minister)
13 Let’s make 2009 a green year (by Jan Top Christensen, ambassador of Denmark in Beirut)
20 Green is the color of the new world economy (cover story)
24 AFED’s Arab green economy initiative
30 Key messages from Copenhagen climate congress
32 Olive farming in Syria
34 Children paint for the planet (a UNEP competition)
46 Barbary macaques in Morocco
50 Animals that mimic plants
54 Retrofitting for the environment (an enterprise to reduce motorized tricycle emissions in Asia)
58 Green cars in Geneva motor show
62 Garbage business (making furniture from discarded materials)
64 A website to track down environmental fugitives
Letters to the editor 8 - Environment in a month 14 -UNEP news 28 - New science 66 - Environment market 70 - Green library 72 - Calendar 74 - Caricature 76
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