Egypt Today “Egypt is the first state in the region and the 11th worldwide to implement the UN ‘Green Fins’ initiative”, adviser to the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for sustainable tourism, Nashwa Talaat, said on Sunday. Talaat made the remarks at a virtual session organised by the Egyptian pavilion …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian football superstar and Liverpool striker, Mohamed Salah, was personally invited by the Duke of Cambridge Prince William and his wife the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, to hand out prizes during the Earthshot environmental ceremony, which is organised by the royal couple. Salah delivered a speech on the importance …
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Egypt Today Egyptian Minister of Environment, Yasmine Fouad, vowed to implement a three-goal strategy to protect Arab countries from climate change impact, in cooperation with Saudi Arabia. The announcement was made at the 32nd session of the council of Arab Environment ministers at the Arab League (AL) on Thursday. “The …
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The rapid, radical decarbonisation needed to save the planet will cost a lot. Taxing multinationals and the wealthy properly can help pay for it. Eva Joly* ‘A code red for humanity’: the United Nations secretary-general, António Guterres, could not have better summed up the chilling impact of the report published by the Inter-governmental Panel …
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Egypt Independent Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions all took the centre stage at the United Nations on Wednesday. For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the UN General Assembly on the opening day of …
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Ultimately, resolving the collective-action dilemma of preserving a liveable planet will require a UN ‘constitution of the Earth’. Guido Montani* From September 28th to 30th, Milan will be hosting Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition, and from September 30th to October 2nd it will be the turn in the city of Pre-COP26, an initiative designed …
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Egypt Today Rania al-Mashat, Egypt Minister of International Cooperation, and Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment met, Wednesday, with Ayat Soliman, the Regional Director of the World Bank Group’s Sustainable Development Department for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Experts from both sides the meeting to discuss climate action …
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Moustafa Kamel* On stage and screen, we are fond of happy endings, but in the unfolding environmental drama, staring Mother Earth versus Humanity, the ending is bound to be disastrous. This is a different kind of drama altogether. For one thing, it is real. Competing with Hollywood counterparts, governments, societies, …
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Ashraf Amin – Ahram Online Ingrid Volkmer, professor of digital communication and globalisation at the University of Melbourne, spoke to Ahram Online about the impact of the pandemic on journalism, which has led her and a group of media scholars to create the Global Risk Journalism Hub, an international research network …
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News that the Amazon rainforest is no longer a carbon sink puts a further big question-mark against the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Isabel Schatzschneider* The Amazon serves as the largest rainforest on Earth and a home to one in ten known species, accounting for nearly a third of the world’s primary forest. …
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