Less than one per cent of all patent applications relating to Clean Energy Technology (CET) have been filed in Africa, highlighting an opportunity for the continent to leapfrog existing fossil-fuel energy sources and thus cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions and bring major health benefits. A new study by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Patent Office (EPO)—Patents and Clean Energy Technologies ...

DUBAI: SynergY is the promising name that is bringing together many like-minded students from across the UAE who are aspiring and planning to move forward in days to come, to shape the green initiative in the UAE. ‘55 Trees planted’ is the project we initiated that called on people to unite and become ‘Earth-keepers’. The World Wide Auctioneers’ (WWA) Middle East Auction Centre, which is a 100,000 square me ...

NAIROBI: The annual migration of an estimated 50 billion birds—  around 19 per cent of the world’s 10,000 bird species—is one of the world’s great natural wonders, yet the critical staging areas migratory birds need to complete these journeys are being degraded or are disappearing completely. These increasingly vulnerable sites, which act as stepping stones on migration routes, serve as a place for the bird ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's growing animal rights movement came out in full force on Friday after a damning new report alleged widespread animal cruelty as part of the country's importing of animals from Australia. Animals Australia has once again released damning footage that reveals the abhorrent cruelty inherent in the live export trade. It is time to end the transport of animals from one country to another ...

SINGAPORE: Singapore's animal rights community is angry after a man was reported and photographed bouncing on a tiger in China. The activists tell Bikyanews.com that they plan to protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in the island country to voice their concerns over the inhumane treatment of animals in China. "Enough is enough and it is time that China get dealt a lesson in animal rights. We will not be ...

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates and the city of Dubai have launched a new Arabic version of the Coastal Zone and Waterways Management Section that will detail and monitor conditions along the coast. The goal of the new site is to offer a database for coastal engineering applications. Alyaa Al-Harmoodi, Head of Coastal Zone and Waterways Management Section functioning under the Environment Department of the ...

The Egyptian government has said the Australian government has not officially informed them of any changes to the import of live animals, even as a damning report revealed widespread cruelty in the two government abattoirs, which Animals Australia said has led to a stoppage in the exporting of live animals to the North African country. Salah Abdel Moemen, Egyptian minister of agriculture, stated that Egypt ...

The Chinese and Russian governments have committed to sending high-level delegations to the World Energy Congress in South Korea in October. The Organizing Committee for the 2013 World Energy Congress said it had been notified that China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) would send a ministerial-level delegation to the event and that the government body had advised Chinese energy companies of its plan ...

The US $7.6 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF) today gave the go-ahead to Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia to proceed with an updated version of a sweeping plan to create an unprecedented 1,120 megawatts (MW) of energy from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) for the region. The plan will receive US $660 million from the CIF’s Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and is expected to leverage nearly U ...

ADDIS ABABA: The recent prisoner release of rebels by the Ethiopian government could have been a move by the government to ensure their Grand Renaissance Dam project was not at risk, some analysts are telling Bikyanews.com. According to them, the Benshangul Peoples Liberation Movement (BPLM) guerrillas operated from camps in Sudan, though Sudan has denied any support of the group. Nile River water politics ...