The wealthy are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, Jayati Ghosh writes, yet carbon taxes hit the poor hardest. Jayati Ghosh* It should be obvious: natural processes—and the ‘anthropocene’ effects on them—do not observe national boundaries. The atmosphere and the oceans do not rely on visas to cross borders, and the impact …
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Egypt Today The German Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements Program ‘Habitat’, revealed ‘Cairo Bike’, a bicycle sharing project launched in Cairo on Tuesday. The initiative’s purpose is to reduce reliance on motor transport, air pollution, carbon emissions and improve traffic. In 2016, studies were carried out …
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Egypt Today On Tuesday, the second day of the Egypt International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition (EGYPS 2022), the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Tarek al-Molla witnessed the signing of 11 energy related memoranda of understanding (MoU) and agreements. The agreements include a ‘gas recovery and reducing carbon emissions …
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Egypt Today “Egypt is among the most vulnerable states to the repercussions of climate change despite of its low carbon emissions”, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly told a climate change panel at the second day of the World Youth Forum on Tuesday. In a session dubbed ‘From Glasgow to Sharm El-Sheikh: …
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The Recovery and Resilience Facility aims to finance national projects. Yet a pan-European rail network could yield big emissions cuts. Katharina Weber* and Maximilian Zangl* and Mario Holzner* The European Union is clear on its goal to be climate-neutral by 2050. Transport accounts for a quarter of the EU’s greenhouse-gas …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said on Monday that Egypt currently has 28 recycling facilities and targets doubling the figure and capacity. Fouad clarified that the Ministry had installed “115 carbon emissions monitoring observatories and the plan is to increase the number of observatories to 300 by …
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Egypt Today “Egypt accounts for 0.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions, while Africa accounts for 4%”, Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, said on Sunday. Her remarks were made at a virtual seminar organised by the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University on climate change and its impacts …
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Egypt Independent “The cost of environmental degradation in Greater Cairo alone amounts to US$47 Billion annually”, Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad stressed on Sunday. She noted that the issue stems from waste, vehicles and factory emissions which include the use of fossil fuels. “Linking climate change to the economy is …
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Alongside ambitious emissions-reductions targets, well-functioning carbon markets are key to success at COP26 and on today’s agenda. Khaled Diab* Article 6 of the 2015 Paris Agreement lays the foundation for voluntary carbon markets, which “deliver an overall mitigation in global emissions”. Hitherto, the focus was on zero-sum offsetting, which does …
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Can the trend to remote work spurred by the pandemic be associated with lower greenhouse-gas emissions? It depends. Selen Uncular* The pandemic required many people around the world, except essential workers, such as in health, transport, care and nutrition, to work remotely and maintain social distance to prevent the spread …
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