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3 weeks ago | 
egyptianstreets.com | Aya Nader
For the upcoming five-year period of 2025-2029, there is a 70 percent chance that the average global warming will be more than 1.5 degrees celsius hotter than pre-industrial times, a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) finds. The forecast is up from 47 percent chance in last year’s WMO report for the 2024-2028 period.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
European energy and agriculture investments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) exploit local resources while exacerbating inequality and environmental harm, warns a new report produced in collaboration between MENA Fem Movement for Economic, Development and Ecological Justice, and Greenpeace MENA.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
Fourteen years ago, Egypt witnessed one of the most significant political events in its modern history. But as the January 2011 revolution was unfolding, another foundational change was taking place in the Red Sea governorate. Environmentalist Ahmed El Droubi was at the helm of an 800-strong team, establishing the long-awaited solid waste management system that had been two decades in the making.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
Growing up, my family often visited the crystal-clear beaches of Matrouh, a pristine Egyptian city near the Libyan border. After several years away, I was excited to return home this summer and show my husband the place I had so often raved about. But to my dismay, the Mediterranean shore I remembered was gone. Brand-name chip bags and empty soda bottles floated around us, while transparent bags clung to our arms and legs. We were swimming in plastic.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
egyptianstreets.com | Aya Nader
The UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan closed on Saturday with a new finance goal: to triple public finance to developing countries, from the previous goal of USD 100 billion annually, to USD 300 billion annually by 2035. Dubbed the ‘finance COP’, COP29’s outcome was heavily criticized for failing to deliver to the Global South.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
In June 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power. Since then, Egypt’s government has shifted from viewing climate issues as a nonissue to moving to organize the world’s biggest annual climate conference. Despite the apparent changes in Egypt’s rhetoric on the global level, matters locally remain bleak. On the tenth anniversary of Sisi’s accession to power, this two-part feature investigates how Egypt’s environmental and climate governance has fared over the past decade.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
In June 2014, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power. Since then, Egypt’s government has shifted from viewing climate issues as a nonissue to moving to organize the world’s biggest annual climate conference. Despite the apparent changes in Egypt’s rhetoric on the global level, matters locally remain bleak. Egypt hosted the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in November 2022.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
As the world set a new historic heat record, averaging 1.6 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels for 12 consecutive months, more than 6,000 delegates gathered in Bonn for the mid-year United Nations climate talks. These annual talks focus on negotiating mechanisms for implementing agreements from the previous COP. The 2024 agenda centered on mitigation actions by 2030, particularly climate finance.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
raseef22.net | Aya Nader
The United Nations’ annual Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai ended just as it started: with a standing ovation. After hard-fought negotiations late into the night and pushback from petrostates, President Sultan Al-Jaber announced on Wednesday that the 'UAE Consensus' has been reached. For the first time in the three-decade history of climate summits, the final agreement addressed fossil fuels.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
egyptianstreets.com | Aya Nader
The United Nations’ Climate Change Conference COP28 has concluded with the ‘United Arab Emirates Consensus’, the first agreement to mention fossil fuels in the three-decade history of climate negotiations. COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber announced the agreement on Wednesday in the closing ceremony of the two-week summit, which took place in Dubai’s Expo City.
