| | Food security needs to be more than just increased production | |  | Najib Saab
27/2/2019
Food Security in the 21st century was the subject of a report presented to the World Government Summit, held earlier this month in Dubai. The report calls for the adoption of agricultural technologies that are resistant to climate change and recommends five techniques to solve the problem of food shortages. These include: more greenhouses, growing crops in multilevel buildings within cities, aquaculture for fish farming, making meat in laboratories from animal cells and algae production as a source of protein. | | more... | |
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| | FINANCING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ARAB COUNTRIES | |  | Najib Saab, 8/11/2018
The adoption of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the Paris climate change agreement in 2015 symbolized a defining moment in international cooperation. They both implied radical changes in the way development is perceived and realized. | | more... | |
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| | Climate change, natural resources and conflicts in Arab countries | |  | Najib Saab
The Netherlands, 10/2/2017
Najib Saab, secretary-general of Arab Forum for Environment & Development, presented this keynote speech today 10 February, at the Future Force Conference, hosted this week in The Hague by the Dutch Minister of Defense and the Chief of the Armed Forces of the Netherlands. | | more... | |
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| | Sustainable Consumption for Better Resource Management - Preface | |  | Najib Saab
November 2015
Annual reports on the state of the Arab environment, produced since 2008 by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), have become a main source of information and a prime driver for policy reforms in Arab countries. Findings of the seven reports produced so far have clearly underscored the pivotal role of sustainable consumption patterns in any viable environmental management scheme. | | more... | |
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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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