The SEIA: Will their Solar Bill of Rights become reality? Could it work in the Middle East? Solar energy as one of the world’s best alternative energy sources is already an important discussion topic during the ongoing COP 15 conference…
If you read any story this week make it this one: What could be the most important event of the next decade, world leaders and activists are meeting as we speak in Copenhagen, Denmark to lay the foundations of a…
As the world seeks a deal on global warming in Copenhagen, the Middle East and North Africa remain one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. The region is one of the worlds’ most water-scarce and…
Oil rich Saudi is not the only country getting slack for greenhouse gas emissions. This Canadian writer points the finger at Canada, where tar sands are yet to be an issue at climate change talks. Climate activist groups have been…
In advance of Copenhagen, a new survey shows that Israelis seek action against climate change. The Israeli public is a few steps ahead of its government in wanting to see strong action on climate change, according to a new poll…
Could Prof. Colin Price’s new discovery become a new tool for monitoring the effects of climate change? Sunspots, which rotate around the sun’s surface, tell us a great deal about our own planet. Scientists rely on them, for instance, to…
Al Gore receives award for his anti global warming efforts Al Gore, who barely lost (or won) the US Presidential election in November 2000, and vowed never to return to US political life, appears to have come out a winner…
Non-profit groups from 18 developing countries called on Saudi Arabia to “stop playing an obstructionist role” in the current climate change negotiations in Barcelona, claiming the oil kingdom’s delaying tactics will hurt the world’s poor. “Developing countries need all the…
Climate change activists are pooling their resources as we speak in Barcelona at the Barcelona Climate Change Talks. This is an antecedent to the big United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen in December where countries are expected to draft…
We’ve already written about how Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) has joined forces with 350.org, an international campaign that hopes to inspire the world to create a sense of urgency among world leaders for changing policies that would…
