| | Economic and Environmental Priorities
| | By Najib Saab
May 2001
President George W. Bush announced last month that the United States has repealed the Kyoto Protocol for diminishing climate change emissions, and said that he will not allow for any commitments that might hinder the progress of US economy. Despite resounding protests from all over the world against the United States’ blatant disregard of international laws, President Bush was adamant in his belief that the United State’s economy is by far more important than other people’s wellbeing. | | more... | |
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| | Turning Oil Revenue into Technology
| | By Najib Saab
April 2001
Natural resources in Africa and Asia are either yet to be discovered or already being consumed at prices much lower than their actual cost, within an international economic framework that puts the world’s resources at the service of industrial nations, according to its own set of rules. The Egyptian-American scientist Dr. Farouk El-Baz says that geological sciences originated in Europe, which is the only continent devoid of deserts, and that is why pioneer geologists were not concerned with the elevations of dry land and the desert environment. After the discovery of oil, the West’s interest became focused on gathering the information that will enable it to invest the resources of desert countries, cheaply and in accordance with its own interests. | | more... | |
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| | Arab environment institutions in coma
| | By Najib Saab
March 2001
Are Arabs doomed to be invariably absent from big global events? The Global Ministerial Environment Forum recently held in Nairobi was yet another chance that Arabs missed in order to catch up with the environmental challenges of the new millennium. | | more... | |
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| | Depleted uranium: are UN agencies accomplices to NATO?
| | By Najib Saab
February 2001
The United Nations organization has always been exploited by superpowers as cover-up for political schemes. While this obvious statement is not news, we have been witnessing another form of abuse, using certain United Nations specialized agencies as accomplices to environmental extermination.
A few weeks ago, NATO's Secretary General Sir George Robertson announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) have both confirmed that there was no proven connection between leukemia and depleted uranium (DU), thus the shells used by NATO in Bosnia in 1995 and in Kosovo in 1999, and earlier in Iraq, were not particularly hazardous and did not represent an actual health threat.
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 | | | Arab Environment in 10 Years | | | ARAB ENVIRONMENT IN 10 YEARS crowns a decade of the series of annual reports produced by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) on the state of Arab environment. It tracks and analyzes changes focusing on policies and governance, including level of response and engagement in international environmental treaties. It also highlights developments in six selected priority areas, namely water, energy, air, food, green economy and environmental scientific research. |
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