11 Companies in MENA responsible for over 8% of Global Emissions

90 companies - 11 of which are from the Middle East and North Africa - are fueling the world’s climate crisis, according to new peer-reviewed research set to be published in a major climate science...

Climate Change Impacts in MENA: North Africa

Part of the Climate Change Impacts in the MENA Region Series: Climate Change Impacts in MENA: Gulf Climate Change Impacts in MENA: Levant Right before COP19 in Warsaw, The Minister...

Climate Change Impacts in MENA: Levant

  Part of the Climate Change Impacts in the MENA Region Series: Climate Change Impacts in MENA: Gulf Climate Change Impacts in MENA: North Africa   The impact of climate change...

Climate Finance and the MENA Region (Infographic)

A major outcome of the previous climate negotiations in Doha last year was the agreement to consider in Warsaw the progress made in the mobilization of long-term climate finance to USD 100 billion per year by...

Climate Change Impacts in MENA: The Gulf

Part of the Climate Change Impacts in the MENA Region Series: Climate Change Impacts in MENA: Levant Climate Change Impacts in MENA: North Africa   As Gulf climate negotiators from Saudi, UAE,...

Climate Change Lessons from Ashura and Karbala

“Every day is Ashura, Every land is Karbala"               Ashura is the 10th day of Muharam, the first month in the Islamic Hijri year and...

Protect our Future: Diabetes and Climate Change

Writing from the halls of the ‘UN Climate Change COP19’ Summit in Warsaw where I’m tracking negotiations, I’m also marking World Diabetes Day (WDD), which falls on the 14th November and represents...

The flowing climate hourglass continues…

There’s only 2 days to go to go until the UN Climate Negotiations hourglass gets officially flipped and flowing again, from the Sands of Qatari desert, to the Coal Soot of Poland. Over the next 2...

GLOB(2)L P(0)WER SH(1)(4)T

In a message to youth today at Global PowerShift, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres emphasised that 2014 needs to be the milestone for which the...

Pathway to Poland: Hopes for COP19 (Photo Blog)

As weary delegates entered the final day of climate negotiations in Bonn, they were asked by YOUNGO to look ahead to Warsaw and share their hopes for...