PwC‘s Climate Risks to Nine Key Commodities: Protecting People and Prosperity report analysed nine commodities across critical minerals (copper, cobalt, lithium), key crops (wheat, rice, maize) and vital metals (zinc, …
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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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UN ‘Verified Champions’ initiative combats climate mis and disinformation
To combat climate mis and disinformation, the United Nations, in collaboration with Purpose, has been running Verified for Climate – a global communications program. The initiative is supported by TikTok, Rockefeller Foundation, …
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Research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found that this year, there has been a record-breaking increase in the CO2 levels in the Earth’s atmosphere. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of …
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MBZUAI Researchers Investigate AI-powered Solutions to Tackle Extreme Weather
Following the recent record-breaking weather experienced across the Gulf region, the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is investigating how AI-powered solutions can be used in urban planning to tackle climate change-induced extreme weather …
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Copernicus data reveals global temperature streak continues with hottest April on record
Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has revealed that April continued the global temperature streak as the hottest on record. C3S routinely publishes monthly climate bulletins reporting on 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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COP28 was the second consecutive climate summit held in the MENA, and in the shadow of COP27, largely remembered for its failures, the summit, held in the UAE, had a lot to …
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The National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) has joined the global industry-led partnership, Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), to measure and disclose the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with its lending and …
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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 …