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The fight against climate change is accelerating: look at the data and do the math
The fight against climate change is accelerating: look at the data and do the math
By Assaad Razzouk
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Coronavirus crisis: Lessons for the fight against climate change
Coronavirus crisis: Lessons for the fight against climate change
By Assaad Razzouk
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High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore
High time for a Green New Deal for Singapore
By Assaad Razzouk
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Carbon capture and storage is a climate con, a non-solution which just funnels more money into Big Oil's pockets. Exhibit ZZZ: At least €4b in…
Carbon capture and storage is a climate con, a non-solution which just funnels more money into Big Oil's pockets. Exhibit ZZZ: At least €4b in…
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Good climate news this week 1 China hits 2030 renewables goal 6 years early 2 Germany hits 2024 solar goal in 1st 6 months 3 EU coal consumption…
Good climate news this week 1 China hits 2030 renewables goal 6 years early 2 Germany hits 2024 solar goal in 1st 6 months 3 EU coal consumption…
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Made time this morning, on National Heroes Day holiday, to attend the book launch / forum tackling an assessment of the Electric Power Industry…
Made time this morning, on National Heroes Day holiday, to attend the book launch / forum tackling an assessment of the Electric Power Industry…
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Renewables in Southeast Asia: Subsidies not required, thanks
Eco-Business
What’s needed for renewables to take off is leadership, vision and a commitment to a better society from the Asean political class
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Renewable Energy in Southeast Asia: Debunking Popular Myths
AsiaGlobal Online
The worldwide debate over more environmentally friendly energy is replete with myths that slow down the uptake of renewables. In fact, renewable energy is increasingly competitive, and the transition is entirely feasible for ASEAN countries today
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Green Climate Fund: Time to Grow Up
Huffington Post
The Green Climate Fund is an essential institution to finance the global shift away from fossil fuel to clean technologies—but it needs an overhaul to remain effective and relevant. Or it will die a slow death.
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It's Time to Get Rid Of All the Green Crap In Politics
Huffington Post
There shouldn't be a dedicated government department for climate change and energy - all ministries should be equally sensitive to these issues. And while we’re at it with scrapping unnecessary green crap, there also shouldn’t be any green political parties: All political parties should be green.
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Climate Hypocrisy: JP Morgan's Empty Promises On Coal
The Ecologist
JP Morgan's announcement that it's pulling out of coal is purest doublespeak, writes Assaad Razzouk. But it's not the only financier to engage in climate hypocrisy, as banks prepare to lend $5 trillion to build 2,440 new coal power stations. To deliver the Paris Agreement they - and the loans that would finance them - must be cancelled.
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Enough With The Doom And Gloom. Fighting Climate Change Promotes Prosperity
Medium
The 'apocalypse now' rhetoric around climate change is just half the story. Climate change is also a clever business strategy that promotes economic prosperity.
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5 Reasons Why Low Oil Prices Are Good For The Environment
The Independent
Low oil prices are great news for the climate, crowding out the most damaging sources of oil and gas operating today. They provide governments with a golden opportunity to remove fossil fuel subsidies while introducing more robust carbon prices. Low oil shows why renewables have become synonymous with energy security and local prosperity.
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The UN Climate Talks Just Failed - Now For The Real Battle
The Ecologist
COP20 has just laid the foundations for a non-agreement in Paris in 2015 - thanks to the pernicious influence of fossil fuels, poisoning debate and subverting serious climate action. Now there's only one earthly power big enough to fight back.
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An Artistic Dialogue Shows the Absence of Cultural Exports from the Arab World
Middle East Institute
Exporting the distinguished culture of the Middle East is critical in any effort to counter the barbaric images of the region currently shaping Asia’s view of Arabs. Arab culture is not visible enough to the rest of the world, and the culprits are the majority of Arab governments, institutions, foundations, and corporations that invest neither time, power, nor money in cultural projects abroad.
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If You're Worried About Immigration, Then You Should Be Terrified About Climate Change
The Independent
So what will happen as agricultural ecosystems across Asia, Africa and Latin America are slowly squeezed, hunger fuels conflict and migration numbers gradually swell by more than ten times, or indeed a hundred times?
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Where's the Money
UNIDO's Making It Magazine
"Assaad W. Razzouk considers how we are going to finance the transition to a green economy."
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It's Been a Big Week for Climate Change - But Don't Believe All the Hype
The Independent
The announcements by the Americans and Chinese are actually distinctly unambitious. It’s time for leaders to lead and propagate the facts: Climate action promotes prosperity.
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The EU Elections "Earthquake" Is Good For Climate Action
Eco-Business.Com
This will be a parliament with a greater emphasis on social issues including, in particular, climate change. Expect a more sustained push to get the EU emission trading scheme to deliver, and a stronger commitment to emission reductions and to renewable energy across Europe.
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A Barrage Of Lawsuits Is Needed To Curb Climate Change
The Independent
Calling for investors to divest from polluters is laudable but won’t be enough
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How to slow climate change? Target the 90 companies who pollute the most
The Independent
Very little has been achieved despite scientists sounding the alarm time after time
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What the climate movement must learn from the fight against AIDS
The Independent
The battle against Big Pharma was won in a way that offers important lessons for the fight against Big Coal, Big Oil and Big Gas
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What climate action can we expect in 2014?
The Independent
The year just passed may be remembered as a watershed year in climate policy. While climate impacts seem to be occurring more quickly than scientists have ever predicted, we may have witnessed in 2013 the permanent failure of 22 years of United Nations-led climate talks and the “top down” solutions these championed. Emerging instead, with strong momentum, are “bottom up” approaches anchored around citizens, consumer movements, the private sector, countries and local governments.
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Climate Action? Warsaw 2013 to Paris 2015
The Ecologist
What will the UN Climate Talks bring over the next 2 years? Expect two dynamics: First, baby steps - in other words no major initiatives, short of a climate change-induced calamity which mobilizes action on a big scale and overcomes the current political inertia. Second, a bottom-up approach anchored around the private sector, countries and sub-national entities, slowly taking over the failed top-down approach pushed by 20 years of UN climate talks.
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On climate, we need a global carbon market with its own ‘federal reserve’
The Independent
A carbon market reserve, established now with cheap credits, would smooth out variability and play a key role in allowing the private sector to drive investments of $1 trillion or more into our transition to a low-emissions world.
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Why we should kill the Green Climate Fund
The Independent
It's not more climate organisations we need. It's more effective ones.
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Climate Action: A Consensus of the Sensible can Beat Polluters' PR
The Independent
Six steps the world should take to fight climate change
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Sound Economics, Naturally
World Forum on Natural Capital
Pricing natural capital correctly is profitable, results in more sustainable businesses and communities and stops us robbing future generations.
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A Frosty G20 Puts Global Warming On Ice
The Independent
The summit in Russia may herald the end of the stubborn global climate policy recession
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Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Sharjah Biennale: The Emergence of a Global Art Hub
The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.
"When looking at the Pearl Area as a whole, the art infrastructure begins to show requisite depth, enough to justify Art Dubai’s claim of being an emerging and credible global art fair. Between them, Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Sharjah Bienniale are mobilizing collectors from the Pearl Area’s hinterland (the Middle East, North East and East Africa, Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and Central Asia), outstanding museums and art from the West, curators from around the world, and cultural…
"When looking at the Pearl Area as a whole, the art infrastructure begins to show requisite depth, enough to justify Art Dubai’s claim of being an emerging and credible global art fair. Between them, Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, and the Sharjah Bienniale are mobilizing collectors from the Pearl Area’s hinterland (the Middle East, North East and East Africa, Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and Central Asia), outstanding museums and art from the West, curators from around the world, and cultural programs with depth, variety, and a local personality."
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Fracking: American dream, Chinese pipe-dream, global nightmare
The Independent
Exporting the US shale gas model is a pipe-dream which if indulged will push the world down the path to climate chaos - truly an international nightmare.
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Asia Set to Roast the Planet
The Independent
Last week, President Barack Obama gave a potentially transformational speech on climate change which is likely to have a major impact on US business and society. This offers a stark contrast to the inaction seen time and again at the UN climate talks, and the downright destructive climate action taking place in Asia.
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Masked Lights
Masquerade Magazine
The devastation and violence which has ripped Iraq apart has also helped spur a growing art scene. Assaad W. Razzouk writes on Contemporary Iraqi art in Masquerade Magazine, May 2013
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Kick-starting the Clean Development Mechanism to resume investments
Eco-Business
In this short paper we briefly describe the concept of a net mitigation fee to be taken from CDM projects at issuance in order to ensure that the CDM contributes to net mitigation. The paper details a number of additional benefits for both host country and CDM project developers. It is described in more details at http://www.pd-forum.net/files/ed84473f99c954b735e348b742e5c643.pdf.
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The Future of the CDM - 10 Reasons to Use its Full Potential
Project Developer Forum
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The $215 Billion Clean Energy Lesson
Sindicatum
The CDM accelerates clean energy investments and innovation in
developing countries and should be used as the source of offsets in all countries with internal emission trading schemes.Other authorsSee publication -
Showcasing Middle Eastern Art in South East Asia
Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.
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The market for carbon trading is broken. We must fix it before it's too late.
The Independent Newspaper
the EU-ETS sends money to polluters and banks, at the expense of EU citizens, their governments, the global community and the cause of greenhouse gas abatement. The cure is straightforward. The market is largely under the control of its regulator; this regulator therefore needs to intervene forcefully and decisively, setting a minimum price for all auctions of emission permits.
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Japan in 2022: Mired in a long dark tunnel, or riding a 20 year take off?
Japan Inc.
Scenarios are food for thought, used by major global corporations and decision makers around the world in setting strategy frameworks and in taking investment decisions affecting billions of dollars of foreign direct investment, and thousands of jobs. In this article, I attempt to sketch two contrasting scenarios addressing the question of exactly which Japan could emerge in 2022. The creation and destruction of fantastic wealth and the livelihood of millions will be affected by the answer.
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“The lightbulb of the 21st century” Today, batteries cost less than 50% of 18 months ago, and 90% less than a decade ago. “A drastic drop of…
“The lightbulb of the 21st century” Today, batteries cost less than 50% of 18 months ago, and 90% less than a decade ago. “A drastic drop of…
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"Oil and gas have proved to be the least interested in actually reducing their huge scope 3 emissions and have the most to gain by simply offsetting…
"Oil and gas have proved to be the least interested in actually reducing their huge scope 3 emissions and have the most to gain by simply offsetting…
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Graduated from the Global Strategy Programme of the Royal College of Defence Studies last month. What a year of reflection, contemplation and…
Graduated from the Global Strategy Programme of the Royal College of Defence Studies last month. What a year of reflection, contemplation and…
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I am excited to announce that I have joined Esas Holding www.esas.com.tr as Senior Middle East Advisor and will continue to be based in Dubai
I am excited to announce that I have joined Esas Holding www.esas.com.tr as Senior Middle East Advisor and will continue to be based in Dubai
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On 14 June 2024, a major oil spill blackened Singapore's coastline, after yet another shipping accident which punctured the oil tank of a fuel ship…
On 14 June 2024, a major oil spill blackened Singapore's coastline, after yet another shipping accident which punctured the oil tank of a fuel ship…
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We must declare a global emergency to deal with plastic pollution: There’s much more plastic in our brains than anyone imagined “An examination of…
We must declare a global emergency to deal with plastic pollution: There’s much more plastic in our brains than anyone imagined “An examination of…
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Thank you Nasdaq for the shout out on your Tower at New York City's Times Square! 😁 We are excited to be hosting our flagship sustainable finance…
Thank you Nasdaq for the shout out on your Tower at New York City's Times Square! 😁 We are excited to be hosting our flagship sustainable finance…
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"Malaysia’s energy transition ministry is currently laying the groundwork for opening up third-party access to its electricity grid, focusing on…
"Malaysia’s energy transition ministry is currently laying the groundwork for opening up third-party access to its electricity grid, focusing on…
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