Opinion
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3/14/2024 11:41:44 AM
Today is World Kidney Day, and an opportunity not just to draw attention to the importance of kidney health – which is too often overlooked – but also to connect the dots between our kidneys, carbon, and climate change, for the benefit of both people and our planet.
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Sports
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Omni sports
3/14/2024 11:41:00 AM
This year's Paris Olympics will use renewable energy, serve lots of vegetarian meals and heavily restrict plastic bottles, but can an event involving so much construction and international travel ever be environmentally sustainable?
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Opinion
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12/27/2023 6:17:11 PM
The ongoing war in Ukraine and the fighting in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack must not distract the world from our collective priorities: reducing our CO2 emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2050, preserving biodiversity, and fighting poverty and inequality.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
12/19/2023 5:06:49 PM
Global e-payment giant Mastercard has partnered with Egyptian Masria Digital Payments company (MDP) to launch a carbon calculator in Egypt, enabling customers to understand the environmental impact of their purchases, according to a statement on Tuesday.
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Business
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Energy
12/9/2023 3:49:17 PM
The Swedish Energy Agency entered a $28.2 million agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to combat global carbon emissions and alleviate poverty in Africa, according to a statement by UNDP on Friday.
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World
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Region
12/2/2023 11:52:08 AM
Leaders of developing nations jumped into Saturday's second day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrial countries to share their know-how to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face — while trumpeting their natural resources that swallow heat-trapping carbon in the air.
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Business
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Energy
11/20/2023 3:20:43 PM
Multinational ammonia exporter Fertiglobe announced that it completed the first shipment of the world’s first internationally recognized renewable ammonia with International Sustainability and Carbon Certification from its plant in Egypt.
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Business
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Energy
9/27/2023 6:13:08 PM
Britain on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change.
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Business
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Energy
9/25/2023 5:03:52 PM
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved a $25 million loan to Kandil Steel company to support sustainable flat steel processing in Egypt and fund green projects, read an IFC statement on Monday.
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Business
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Tech
9/22/2023 7:02:54 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change high-level Champion for Egypt, said Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a key role in reducing carbon emissions if included in de-carbonization efforts.
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World
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Africa
9/7/2023 5:57:33 PM
Renewables funding, global finance reform and carbon taxes head the demands formulated by African nations at a summit in Nairobi this week as the world heads towards annual climate negotiations.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
9/5/2023 10:10:00 PM
Voluntary carbon markets can provide a way for companies, organisations, and individuals to offset their greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce their environmental impact, writes Sawsan Samy Elawady
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Business
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Energy
9/5/2023 10:47:06 AM
The African Carbon Markets Initiative (ACMI) is one of the most important mechanisms for financing climate action in Africa, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt Mahmoud Mohieldin confirmed on Monday.
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Business
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Economy
8/30/2023 7:40:00 PM
The Cabinet has granted 852 square kilometres to an international consortium, led by the Egyptian giant Orascom Construction, to build a new massive wind farm in West Sohag in Upper Egypt with a capacity of three gigawatts.
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Business
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Economy
8/27/2023 12:46:30 PM
Rising trade barriers. Aging populations. A broad transition from carbon-spewing fossil fuels to renewable energy.
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Business
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Energy
7/31/2023 9:36:35 PM
The national oil giant of the United Arab Emirates, host of this year's UN climate talks, said Monday it had accelerated its emission reduction goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
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Business
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Energy
7/19/2023 2:48:24 PM
Swedish-Swiss tech solutions multinational corporation ABB is expanding its investments in the Egyptian market, Sherif Ismail, ABB Egypt’s vice president and the electrification commercial leader Egypt and Central Africa, told Ahram Online.
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World
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Region
7/17/2023 4:28:09 PM
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrived in the UAE on Monday to discuss cooperation on clean hydrogen, ammonia and recycled carbon fuels ahead of this year's UN climate talks in Dubai.
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World
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Region
7/3/2023 7:18:03 PM
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates said it would triple renewable energy production as part of a raft of environmental initiatives announced on Monday, months before it hosts UN climate talks.
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World
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International
6/26/2023 1:09:37 PM
Companies around the world will soon have a uniform set of standards on sustainability issues after the body governing international accounting rules published on Monday its first guidelines on reporting greenhouse gas emissions.
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