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Blooming Futures Report: Supporting the UAE’s Journey Toward a Wellbeing Economy
The report, titled “Beyond Extractivism: Towards a Feminist and Just Economic Transition in Morocco and Egypt”, challenges the widely held belief that European investments create mutual benefits. Instead, it reveals how these investments in oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture in Morocco and Egypt often perpetuate unfair resource exploitation, with wealth and benefits…
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From Vision to Action: How the UAE is Championing a New Economic Future
Redefining Success: How Greenpeace UAE’s Wellbeing Economy Award is Sparking a Movement
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Happiness Isn’t Bought—It’s Nurtured: What Truly Makes MENA Happier?
While GDP was solely intended to serve as an indicator of economic scale, it became universally equated with societal progress and wellbeing.
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Greenpeace warns in a report: European investments in energy and agriculture may worsen environmental and social harm in the Middle East and North Africa
European investments in energy and agriculture in the region may worsen environmental and social harm. Thus reveals a new report by Greenpeace MENA and the MENAFem Movement for Economic, Development, and Ecological Justice.
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Greenpeace MENA’s 2024/2025 UAE Wellbeing Economy Award
Greenpeace MENA and Ajman University are excited to announce the call for submissions for the “Wellbeing Economy Award” — 2024/2025. This Award is launched in partnership with Greenpeace MENA, Ajman University and the UAE Universities Climate Network (UCN). We collectively invite researchers, academics, professionals, and young visionaries to contribute innovative, ongoing or published research papers…
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Greenpeace MENA Award: Alternative Futures – UAE Project
Announcing the call for submissions for “the Alternative Futures - UAE” project. This visionary initiative invites researchers, academics, professionals, and young visionaries to contribute innovative already established research papers outlining alternative future scenarios addressing the challenges and opportunities in UAE’s sustainable development journey.
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Chapter VI: Food sovereignty and environmental violations: The case of Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco
Environmental damage, Liberal growth policies in the agricultural sector, exploitation of resources, destruction of the environment, heavy use of chemicals, soil exhaustion have destabilized food sovereignty, in addition to poor…
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Chapter VI: Food sovereignty and environmental violations: The case of Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco
Environmental damage, Liberal growth policies in the agricultural sector, exploitation of resources, destruction of the environment, heavy use of chemicals, soil exhaustion have destabilized food sovereignty, in addition to poor…
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The invasion of Ukraine is supercharging food insecurity in the Middle East and North Africa
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed the vulnerabilities, corruption and violence behind the energy system. It is also accelerating a global food crisis. Some regions are more strongly impacted...
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Conclusion: Social and climate justice between the economic and the political
Human societies have a close relationship with ecosystems and economic and tourism growth which has led to resource depletion and environmental degradation which has increased the importance of "environmental justice".