Rosewood Exports: Amina Mohammed Acted within the Law, Says Environment Minister
Abimbola Akosile in Lagos and Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja The Minister of State for Environment, Usman Jibril, has said the former Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who is now Deputy...
Building Stability in the Middle East: Defining a Transatlantic Agenda for Climate Resilience
Climate change can undermine stability in the Middle East and North Africa, where both the United States and Europe have critical foreign policy and security interests. The Middle East and North...
AU-EU SUMMIT: ‘LEADERS NEED TO EXAMINE LIBYA SLAVE TRADE ROOT CAUSES’
ABIDJAN – President Jacob Zuma has told the African-European Union summit that leaders on the two continents need to act decisively in dealing with the human tragedy unfolding in Libya. He was...
Morocco’s blue tourist town turning green
RABAT – Huddling against a hillside in northern Morocco is a tourist town famed for the striking blue of its buildings, and now the mayor is mixing in another colour — green. Chefchaouen...
Climate change threatens olive trees across Mediterranean
Environmental groups have warned that the olive oil industry across the Mediterranean, worth billions of dollars, is under threat due to climate change. From Italy to Tunisia, and Lebanon to Greece,...
Mediterranean countries back Blue Economy initiative
NAPLES – Thursday saw the official debut of WestMED, the European initiative to promote the sustainable development of the blue economy in the western Mediterranean. “All the...
Syria signs Paris Agreement – leaving US only country in the world to refuse climate change deal
Syria has become a signatory of the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not to support the framework deal to combat greenhouse gas emissions. When...
FIRST ISRAELI MARINE STATION LAUNCHED IN THE DEEP MEDITERRANEAN
The first permanent marine station to study the deep sea off the coast of Israel will be launched after completing a successful, one-year pilot project. The station is 50 km. from the Haifa shore...
