Khaled Diab

Belgium

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Journalist. Alt-writer. Eco-worrier. Anti-errorist. Punsultant. Author of 'Islam for the Politically Incorrect' and 'Intimate Enemies'.

Articles

How Belgium Elected a Far-Right Government

3 weeks ago | newlinesmag.com | Khaled Diab

The country’s new prime minister, a Flemish nationalist who aspires to dismantle the state, joins an increasingly global movement of local nativismFor the first time in its history, Belgium has a prime minister who is a Flemish nationalist. Bart De Wever, who wants the Dutch-speaking Belgians to separate from the French-speaking Walloons and have their own state, rode a wave of nativist and right-wing sentiment to bring his New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party to power in the February election.
Urgent LIFE-saving intervention required for European environmental NGOs

2 months ago | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab

While the media spotlight has largely focused on Donald Trump and his administration’s frontal assault against climate policy and supposedly “woke” federal funding, this side of the Atlantic has also been witnessing attacks on similar targets, albeit in less spectacular fashion.
EU scientific body’s call for separate binding climate targets aligns with civil society

Feb 21, 2025 | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab |Gerd Altmann

Today, the ESABCC published its much-awaited report on scaling up carbon dioxide removals in the EUwhich highlights the key policy needs and gaps forrobust EU governance of carbon removals. Most importantly, the ESABCC considers the separation of targets and ensuring the quality of removals a foundational pillar of EU policy on carbon removals.
COP29 Opened Carbon Markets to Cowboys when a Sheriff is Needed

Dec 2, 2024 | znetwork.org | Khaled Diab

Governments approved a concerning package of carbon market rules that could end up undermining our efforts to rein in emissions rather than advancing them. Some countries fought tooth and nail to bring transparency and quality to the flawed framework for decentralised emissions trading under Article 6.2, with limited gains to show for their pains. “The flaws of Article 6 have, unfortunately, not been fixed,” said Isa Mulder, Policy Expert on global carbon markets.
EU’s Emissions Trading System v UN’s CORSIA: Which is better for the climate?

Nov 25, 2024 | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab

Aviation’s carbon footprint is close to its pre-pandemic levels and on course to soar to new heights in the coming years, with non-CO2 emissions at least doubling the sector’s climate impact. Given the urgent need to get airlines to slash their emissions, the question raises itself of which policy instruments are most effective in this regard.
COP29: Complex Article 6 rules pave way to unruly carbon markets

Nov 23, 2024 | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab

Governments approved a concerning package of carbon market rules that could end up undermining our efforts to rein in emissions rather than advancing them. Some countries fought tooth and nail to bring transparency and quality to the flawed framework for decentralised emissions trading under Article 6.2, with limited gains to show for their pains. “The flaws of Article 6 have, unfortunately, not been fixed,” said Isa Mulder, Policy Expert on global carbon markets.
COP29: Carbon markets need to be fixed but are no quick fix for climate crisis

Oct 29, 2024 | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab

As the world glides perilously close to the 1.5°C temperature rise limit set down by the Paris Agreement and the UN warns that the world is on track for catastrophic heating of 3.1°C by the end of the century if it doesn’t change course, humanity is spewing out more planet-heating gases than ever before. These alarming signals make it abundantly clear that we need to slash our collective carbon footprint massively, yet most of the world’s governments are dragging their feet.
Exciting beginnings: How I became a journalist – #25YearsAJournalist - The Chronikler

Oct 24, 2024 | chronikler.com | Khaled Diab

How did you become a journalist? What advice have you got for someone who wants to get into journalism? These are the type of questions I periodically get from people wishing to break into the profession or those curious to learn how I made it at a time when there were few Arab voices in the English-language media and without having a degree in journalism. I don’t have a glib answer or a flippant six-step programme for becoming a journalist.
A year of horror in Gaza, the graveyard of civilisation

Oct 1, 2024 | chronikler.com | Bostjan Videmsek |Boštjan Videmšek |Khaled Diab

On 16 September 2024, the Palestinian Ministry of Health published a 649-page document listing most of the deaths caused by the Israeli collective punishment of Gaza for the Hamas massacre on 7 October 2023. The list includes more than 34,000 of the 41,000 Gazans who died directly in air strikes. The remainder of the casualties have yet to be identified.
Billionauts' space tourism and Mars fantasies need to be pulled back to Earth

Aug 30, 2024 | carbonmarketwatch.org | Khaled Diab

Tech billionaire and pioneering space tourist Jared Isaacman is back and he is on a mission to boldly go where no tycoon has gone before. After commanding the first all-civilian space flight in 2021, Isaacman will soon take off on the even more daring Polaris Dawn mission which will enable its crew to venture further into space than any private citizens have travelled before and the furthest for any human in half a century. Polaris Dawn will orbit in the hazardous Van Allen radiation belt.