The Middle East is currently bustling with economic growth and innovation, yet it is simultaneously grappling with water challenges as climate change disrupts traditional precipitation patterns, resulting in unpredictable rainfall. …
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At the end of April, in a speech at the Sorbonne, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that European leaders should consider broadening the European Central Bank’s mandate to include decarbonization targets. His proposal has …
The European Union’s Green Deal is one of the bloc’s most successful and transformational policy frameworks, offering a clear path toward full sustainability by mid-century. But emerging challenges, such as …
The world is burning, and our political leaders are failing us. With temperatures rising at an alarming rate, it seems that anyone who believes it is still possible to limit …
Since the European Green Deal was introduced in 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has touted it as the European Union’s new economic-growth agenda. After all, while the strategy’s core objective is …
Climate change continues to ravage Africa, which is enduring extreme weather and natural disasters on an unprecedented scale. My own country, Kenya, has just emerged from its longest drought on …
As countries around the world experienced record temperatures last year, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres declared, “We must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.” But to …
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The grass will be greener in the GCC: The transition to a sustainable and resource secure future
As COP28 finished in Dubai with the signing of the agreement on The Global Climate Fund for vulnerable countries, many people thought that this represented a new chapter in the …
A month before the European Parliament elections, many of Europe’s industries are fighting to survive. But rather than make the difficult decisions needed to reverse the European Union’s industrial decline, leaders …
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Designing the future – integrating climate resilience into occupational health & safety
The recent storms in Dubai have made us all too aware of our fragility to mother nature. As the clean-up operation is well underway and the quick-thinking emergency services deal …