Category Archives: Climate Change

إشراك الشباب في العمل التطوعي البيئي

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تطالعنا الصحف يوميا بأخبار عن التدهور البيئي في مختلف المناطق اللبنانية. المشاكل البيئية تطال جميع الأمور الحياتية من النفايات الى مياه الشرب ومياه الصرف الصحي الى الهواء والصحة وغيره. معالجة هذه المشكلات يتطلب حلولا جذرية ومستدامة لان الحلول التقنية  الموجودة تعالج النتائج وليس الأسباب.حماية البيئة والحفاظ عليها وعلى استدامة مواردها يأتي في المرتبة الأولى للحفاظ على المجتمع  والمفتاح لتحقيق الاستدامة والحفاظ على سلامة البيئة يكون في تفعيل دور الشباب في المشاركة في حماية البيئة. شباب اليوم هم بناة المستقبل لذا يجب أن يتسلحوا بالوعي البيئي اللازم ليقوموا بدورهم الريادي. ويقع علي عاتق الشباب مسؤولية حماية البيئة ومعالجة مشاكلها.  ففئة الشباب … Continue reading →

تسارع تدهور الأراضي والتصحر في السودان

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ازدادت حدتها مع الحرب التي اندلعت في أبريل ٢٠٢٣. وتشمل هذه الضغوط إزالة الغطاء النباتي والأشجار، والتوسع الزراعي غير المستدام، والرعي الجائر، واستخدام الحطب والفحم النباتي، والحرائق، وتدهور التربة، وتكرار موجات الجفاف، إضافة إلى النزوح الواسع الذي أدى إلى انتقال الضغط على الموارد الطبيعية إلى مناطق الاستضافة. وتشير بيانات منظمة الأغذية والزراعة إلى أن الغابات والأراضي الحرجة في السودان انخفضت تاريخياً بمعدل يقارب ١٧٥ ألف هكتار سنوياً خلال العقدين السابقين لتقييم عام ٢٠٢٠، مع اعتبار تحويل الغابات الطبيعية إلى الزراعة والمراعي أحد أهم المحركات المباشرة لفقد الغطاء الحرجي، إلى جانب استخدام الحطب والرعي والحرائق. كما تسجل منصة اتفاقية الأمم المتحدة … Continue reading →

The Islamic Discourse on Climate Change

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Global ecological trends show that we face the risk of tipping points and irreversible changes in the environment and in its capacity to support and sustain human life in all its dimensions.  This state of imbalance and pollution is referred to as “fassad” in Islam which is attributed to human-made actions. Transforming society and the world’s economy to a sustainable basis presents the most significant challenge to the 21st century. It is inspiring to harness local knowledge and culture to inform sustainability. Islam as a worldview and a way of life can provide a fresh outlook to human-environmental in a … Continue reading →

What If You Could Point at the Sky and Measure What Is Moving Inside It

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Look up at a storm rolling in and the eye can only tell you so much. Dark clouds, maybe a visible shift in wind, but nothing about what’s actually happening inside that mass of moisture as it moves across the landscape. Radar changes that equation entirely. By sending out radio waves and listening for what bounces back, it becomes possible to see motion and structure inside weather systems that would otherwise stay completely hidden from anyone standing on the ground below. That same underlying technology doesn’t have to live permanently in one fixed location either. Advances in equipment design have … Continue reading →

دعم التمويل المناخي بالدول العربية : آستثمار لغد أفضل

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تعتبر مسألة التغيّر المناخي بالدول العربيّة من المسائل الشائكة التي لم تنل قسطا كافيا من الإهتمام سواء على المستوين الحكومي أوالشعبي ، وآقتصرت التوعية بها على مبادرات محدودة الصيت الإعلامي من منظمات المجتمع المدني والمؤسسات المالية العالمية كالبنك الدولي وغيره. لا يتجاوز نصيب الفرد حاليا أكثر من 1000 متر مكعب من موارد المياه المتجددة في الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا، بالمقارنة بنحو 4500 متر مكعب للفرد في بلدان شرق آسيا، و9000 متر مكعب في الولايات المتحدة. وتضيف المطالب التنافسية من قبل الزراعة والنمو السكاني والتوسع السريع في المناطق الحضرية ضغوطا هائلة على موارد المياه الشحيحة في المنطقة. هذه المؤشرات الخطيرة تستوجب … Continue reading →

Why AC Servicing is Dubai’s Most Underrated Climate Action

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Air conditioning is expensive. Any Dubai summer electricity bill says so. What the bill hides is the carbon. Every kilowatt-hour consumed by a compressor in Al Barsha or Deira traces back to a power station, and for much of the year a large slice of the emirate’s generating capacity exists to keep indoor air cold. How that equipment is looked after, whether it’s a split unit on a villa wall or a chilled-water plant feeding a tower on Sheikh Zayed Road, decides how much fuel the city burns for the same degree of comfort. There is a quiet argument here … Continue reading →

The Power of Cities to Shape a Greener Future

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The current rate of urbanization is one of the global megatrends, which will manifest itself in many of the challenges faced in the upcoming decades. UN reports estimate that nearly 70% of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. The way in which cities deal with this rapid rate of urbanization will determine whether international objectives such as Sustainable Development Goal 11, aimed at making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, will be achieved. Urbanization has further impacts on many more of the goals defined in the UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. Achieving these goals … Continue reading →

How MENA Eco-Creators Turn TikTok Views Into Action

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A beach cleanup video shot in Alexandria can pull two million views. The cleanup itself might pull eleven volunteers. That gap is the real story of environmental content in the Middle East and North Africa right now. Attention is cheap here. Turnout isn’t. And the creators who close that gap are doing a handful of specific things the rest of the field keeps missing. The audience is already sitting there MENA doesn’t have a reach problem. As of October 2025, Saudi Arabia and the UAE were among the countries with the highest TikTok penetration per adult population on the globe—around … Continue reading →

Carbon Offsetting in Practice: Why the Quality and Mix of Carbon Projects Matter

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Carbon offsetting is often reduced to a simple calculation: estimate emissions, purchase an equivalent number of carbon credits, and claim that the impact has been addressed. In practice, the decision is much more complicated. A tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent may look identical in a spreadsheet, but the project behind that tonne can be very different. Some projects prevent emissions, some reduce them, and others remove carbon from the atmosphere. Storage may last for very different periods, and the risks associated with each project can vary substantially. For individuals and businesses trying to make more responsible climate decisions, the important … Continue reading →

Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Major Ecosystems

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Anthropogenic climate change is hindering a wide variety of organisms, their genetics and species’ habitats – in short, biodiversity. The accelerated pace of human development and its impacts on biodiversity which sustain it, is both massive and significant. Biodiversity is inextricably linked to climate; climate change is both a cause and an effect of biodiversity change. Climate change jeopardizes the services offered by the global ecosystems that have been taken for granted. Let us examine how anthropogenic climate change is affecting various ecosystems: Agricultural Ecosystem Agricultural ecosystems are spread around the globe; hence, the impacts of climate change on agricultural biodiversity … Continue reading →

El Niño, Your Leftovers, and the Methane Problem Hiding in Plain Sight

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A limp celery stalk, a banana peel or yesterday’s rice hardly looks like a climate problem. Once those scraps disappear into the kitchen trash, most of us stop thinking about them. Yet food does not disappear when it leaves the kitchen: it enters a waste management system, and if that system ends in a landfill, the climate consequences can be surprisingly significant. That may seem far removed from El Niño, but the connection is worth examining carefully. Food waste does not cause El Niño, and composting cannot control it. El Niño is a natural Pacific Ocean-atmosphere cycle. The connection is … Continue reading →

Financing Climate Resilience in War Zones

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In the global effort to fight climate change, war zones face a massive problem. Countries like Iraq, Syria, and Yemen suffer from extreme heat, dry weather, and shrinking water supplies. Yet, they receive very little financial help. Standard green finance systems require stable governments, safe conditions, and clear profits to work. During a war, those conditions do not exist. To help these areas, the Green Climate Fund has changed how it operates. By adapting its rules, the Fund now spends money directly into active conflict zones, showing how environmental aid can still reach people living through war. The biggest hurdle … Continue reading →