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The Clock is Ticking: COP28’s Make-or-Break Moment for Our Planet’s Survival
COP28, this year’s big United Nations climate change summit, opens in Dubai today. With its ambitious and progressive agenda to triple renewable energy capacity and double the rate of energy efficiency in the world, this COP agenda has exceeded initial expectations with its vision. For its own part, the UAE has already announced its own…
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COP28: A Business Revolution for Climate Action
COP28, taking place in Dubai later this month, is set to be the largest climate summit ever. This COP represents a critical opportunity for world leaders to show the political courage that is needed to fairly and equitably end the age of fossil fuels and move towards a more sustainable and just future.
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Renewable Energy in MENA: Embracing Transition Amidst Oil Affluence
Undoubtedly, the Middle East and North Africa boasts a wealth of energy resources and the availability of affordable gas and oil is hindering a rapid energy transition in the region.
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Greenpeace’ comment on the IEA report
Yes we can! We knew it and the latest IEA report confirms it yet again. The global pathway to net zero by 2050 that will keep the planet within the 1.5c warming limit remains both feasible and urgent. The only thing standing in its way is the absence of political will.
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Climate justice and social justice: Two sides of the same coin
Climate justice and social justice are two sides of the same coin, and are both vital to creating a more equitable and sustainable future for all.
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2022: The Success of People Power
The world doesn’t get better on its own, but it gets better because people work together to make it that way. Everything we achieved this year was thanks to the courageous efforts of inspiring people who dare to dream that a better world is possible and within our grasp.
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COP27: The People vs The Fossil Fuel Industry
As we near the end of the COP27 climate summit here in Sharm el Sheikh, the negotiations are getting more intense. The COP27 Presidency promised a COP of implementation, raising expectations both of Egypt’s leadership role in the Arab world and Africa, and also the importance of the summit’s outcomes to respond to an existential…
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COP27: Putting Justice at the Heart of Climate Action
When climate disaster is having a disproportionately large impact on the poorer communities of the Global South, a United Nations Climate Change Conference on the frontlines of the crisis is…
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Open letter to H.E. Dr. Walid Fayad, Minister of Energy and Water
First of all, we would like to congratulate you on assuming your new role as minister, while recognizing the immense responsibilities of the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW), especially in the current circumstances: the State failing to provide electricity...
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Green Charity – Entrusted with Preserving the Earth
I call on you to start planting the first seeds of a safer future by joining me in signing this pledge that links words to actions, in order to achieve success together.