| | Water Security: Knowing What We Need to Know | |  | Eye on Earth, Abu Dhabi - 14 December 2011
The report on Arab water, which my organization, the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), produced in 2010, showed that as early as 2015, not 2025 as previously thought, the average per capita share of renewable fresh water in the Arab region will fall below 500 cubic meters per year, which amounts to severe water scarcity. | | more... | |
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| | AFED Secretary General Talks about Green Jobs at ILO Conference in Kyoto | |  | Kyoto, 5/12/2011
Secretary General of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) Najib Saab addressed a special session entitled “Green Jobs for a Sustainable Future’, at the 15th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Labor Organization onvened (ILO), which convened in Kyoto, (Japan) between 4-7 December 2011. The conference was opened by Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihiko Noda. The special session on Green Jobs was moderated by Ashok Khosla, President of IUCN and the Club of Rome. Here are Saab’s main key points in the session. | | more... | |
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| | Nuclear reactors or hernia surgery? | |  | Najib Saab
Article in Perspectives - April 2011
The debate on the use of nuclear power in Europe inspired the Italian cinema company MOROL Productions to produce a documentary entitled, "The Nuclear Question." This documentary was shown at the Rome Film Festival in October 2009, and received awards for presenting the nuclear question from ethical, environmental and economical perspectives. | | more... | |
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| | From Cancun to Durban | | by Najib Saab
1/2/2011
Cancun conference on climate change officially adopted what was informally noted in Copenhagen. Main highlights are reducing emissions to limit global average temperature increase to below 2 degrees Celsius, activating technology transfer, and formalizing the financial pledges announced in Copenhagen by setting the structure of the Green Fund, with management powers equally divided among developed and developing countries. | | 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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