Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
6/21/2025 6:33:00 PM
The Third United Nations Ocean Conference held in the French coastal city of Nice last week highlighted the environmental and other threats facing the world’s seas and oceans.
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Opinion
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6/3/2025 11:30:40 AM
For too long, biodiversity in the Middle East has been overlooked—seen either as a victim of climate change or a luxury issue secondary to more immediate economic or security concerns. But a quiet transformation is underway, and the region is beginning to recognize that nature is not just a backdrop. It is a foundation for long-term resilience—economic, environmental, and even diplomatic.
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World
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International
5/1/2025 6:02:58 PM
Climate change, women's rights, displacement, poverty: Afghanistan remains a priority as it faces overlapping crises, the UN's relief chief Tom Fletcher told AFP on Wednesday, deploring "brutal" aid budget cuts.
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Egypt
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Society
3/27/2025 9:40:51 PM
Suzy El-Geneidy, Deputy Chief Editor of Al-Ahram Al-Arabi magazine, received the Cairo Climate Talks (CCT) Excellence Award for Outstanding Journalistic Coverage of Climate Change Issues and Coverage of the 2024 Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
3/22/2025 4:52:38 PM
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities will participate in the Global Earth Hour initiative tonight, a worldwide effort to raise awareness about climate change and energy conservation.
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Business
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Economy
3/12/2025 3:55:15 PM
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ratified a crucial $1.3 billion loan for Egypt on Monday to support the country’s climate reform efforts as part of its National Climate Change Strategy 2050.
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World
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International
3/6/2025 11:19:11 AM
Women's rights regressed last year in a quarter of countries around the world, according to a report published by UN Women on Thursday, due to factors ranging from climate change to democratic backsliding.
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World
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International
1/21/2025 9:14:00 AM
President Donald Trump says he will again withdraw the United States, a top carbon-polluting nation, from the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the US from its closest allies.
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World
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International
1/16/2025 6:01:03 PM
The World Health Organization appealed Thursday for $1.5 billion for emergency operations this year, warning that conflict, climate change, epidemics and displacement had converged to create an "unprecedented global health crisis".
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Focus
12/23/2024 5:35:56 PM
This year has been a wake-up call for humanity with the deepening of the worldwide environmental crisis and acceleration of climate change.
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Opinion
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12/4/2024 5:54:05 PM
The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku (COP29) and G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro were a watershed, particularly for developing countries.
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Egypt
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Society
12/4/2024 5:16:13 PM
Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam stressed that cooperation among nations represents "a fundamental pillar" in addressing the growing global challenges in the water sector due to water scarcity and climate change, read a statement released Wednesday by the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/27/2024 7:50:00 PM
Ala Al-Qad is a national campaign that aims to reduce water consumption and protect water resources from pollution as Egypt grapples with climate change, population growth, and geopolitical challenges.
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World
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International
11/23/2024 8:27:06 PM
Splintered and rudderless after developing nations rejected what they called too little money to deal with climate change, United Nations talks dissolved into factions Saturday.
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World
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Region
11/22/2024 4:11:29 PM
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has emphasized the critical role of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in raising awareness about the risks of climate change.
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World
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International
11/20/2024 9:45:41 AM
With time running down, negotiators at the United Nations annual climate talks on Wednesday returned to the puzzle of finding an agreement to bring far more money for vulnerable nations to adapt than wealthier countries have shown they're willing to pay.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Features
11/19/2024 10:38:35 PM
Egyptian multiple Guinness World Record holder Ali Abdo e-biked his way across 10 countries to the UN COP29 Summit in Azerbaijan to draw attention to the urgency of climate action
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
11/19/2024 10:08:53 PM
Egypt hopes the UN COP29 Climate Summit will unleash opportunities for developing nations to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change.
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World
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International
11/17/2024 11:05:32 AM
US President-elect Donald Trump nominated fracking magnate and climate change sceptic Chris Wright as energy secretary on Saturday, tasking him with "cutting red tape" which the new administration hopes will drive investment in fossil fuels.
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World
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International
11/16/2024 6:27:15 PM
Hundreds of activists formed a human chain outside one of the main plenary halls at the United Nations climate summit on what is traditionally their biggest protest day during the two-week talks.
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