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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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EnergyEnvironmentOpinion
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 …
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EnvironmentOpinion
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 …
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Improving energy efficiency is undoubtedly a good thing. But efficiency should not be confused – as it sometimes is – with sufficiency, which calls for limiting energy consumption and is thus closely connected …
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For millennia, we have lived in harmony with our natural environment. Nature has given us all we need, be it food, shelter, and a sense of well-being. Over the past …
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Ethical investment frameworks must be advanced as green-labelled funding flows exceed $1.7 trillion in 2023 Recent years have witnessed a seismic shift in investor appetite for partnerships that align with …
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The cities that some 4.4 billion people call home are increasingly at risk of catastrophic climate-driven events. Rising sea levels and flooding threaten coastal megacities like New York City and Jakarta, and …