U.N. Calls for “Hydro-Diplomacy” as World Faces Water Scarcity
As world water scarcity increases, the United Nations is concerned about possible diplomatic conflicts and tensions over shared water supplies. UN-Water, a group dedicated to all aspects of global...
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Evidence of ’21st Century Food Wars’– Spiraling Commodity Prices in Qatar
The 21st Century Food Wars are real…. and being felt all over the world. Spiraling commodity prices in Qatar has prompted the Consumer Protection Department (CPD) Ministry of Business and Trade to ban...
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Water-stressed Jordan to Invest in European & Central Asian Wheat Cultivation
The pivotal intersection of rising food demands and dwindling water supplies is a key element of our investment strategy and is monitored closely by our research team. Further to our discussions of...
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Investment in Clean Energy May Double to $395bn by 2020
Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts strong growth in solar and off-shore wind energy may propel annual investments in clean energy to double by 2020, reaching an estimated $395 billion a year. By...
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Strong Demand Lifts Agribusiness Sales
Deere & Co., the world’s largest farm machinery maker, expressed a strong outlook for the global agribusiness sector in 2012. Positive global farming conditions, combined with the collective rising...
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Middle East – Going Green – Fact or Fiction ?
Think about Middle-Eastern OPEC countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates and what comes to mind? Is it the obvious: oil? Or is it solar energy, smart grids and green...
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Food and Water Security in the UAE
The seventeenth annual conference of food and water security was held in the United Arab Emirates on 25th and 26th of March, 2012 under the patronage of the Lt General Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed...
View ArticleUAE Desalination Industry – Water, at a cost
Abu Dhabi, UAE (CNN) — During the summer months, in the arid, subtropical coastal plains of the United Arab Emirates, temperatures rise to 40 Celsius plus — while average rainfall is a desolate four...
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Major water project announced in Iran to “control growing desert”
Iran has officially launched the first phase of an ambitious project valued at US$ 1 billion to pump water from the Caspian Sea to a city in its vast and expanding central desert, state media reported....
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UAE Nuclear power plant project receives environmental approval
Mohamed Al Hammadi CEO Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corp. (ENEC) on July 15 said it received a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi...
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