Khaled Diab

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.