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FSO Safer tanker could trigger major oil disaster, study shows Barriers to undertake swift resolution are not technical but political
Without a swift resolution, an explosion or leak from the rusting oil tanker FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen could trigger one of the biggest oil spill disasters in history.
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COP26 end in Glasgow – Greenpeace response
Reacting to the conclusion of COP26 in Glasgow, Greenpeace International Executive Director Jennifer Morgan said: “It’s meek, it’s weak and the 1.5C goal is only just alive, but a signal has been sent that the era of coal is ending. And that matters
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Greenpeace MENA congratulates Egypt and UAE as next climate COP hosts
Reacting to the announcement that Egypt and the United Arab Emirates will be the next hosts of the 27th and 28th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) respectively, Ghiwa Nakat, executive director of Greenpeace MENA, said...
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Greenpeace expresses concern over KSA net zero announcement: nothing but fossil fuel propaganda ahead of COP-26
Greenpeace MENA is concerned that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s announcement of its pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2060, lacks a serious...
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Greenpeace welcomes net zero commitment from UAE, urging Gulf countries to follow suit
Greenpeace MENA welcomes the United Arab Emirates’s announcement of its commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050...
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UN must act to prevent major oil spill catastrophe in Yemen
Greenpeace called for swift action from the United Nations (UN) to resolve the long outstanding environmental and humanitarian threat posed by the FSO Safer
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Greenpeace MENA and Arab Forum for Alternatives Announce Team Up to Promote the Discussion of a Green and Just Recovery in the Region
Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa and the Arab Forum for Alternatives announced today a series of online webinars that will be organised to discuss the challenges
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Greenpeace MENA on the Mediterranean oil spill that has reached the Lebanese southern
We call for immediate action from the Ministry of Environment to assess the severity of this spill via an urgent survey and monitoring programme and to put in place a plan to minimize the impacts on...
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Greenpeace warns against importing highly polluting Iraqi fuel – Give our lungs a break!
Iraqi oil has a high sulfur content and using it for power generation will worsen the air pollution in Lebanon that has already reached an alarming level
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Middle East Records Some of the Highest Global SO2 Emissions
The report revealed that Saudi Arabia recorded the highest levels of sulfur dioxide emissions in the Middle East and North Africa in 2019, followed by Kuwait, the UAE, Iraq and Morocco