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Call for Submissions // Zayed Sustainability Prize 2019
The annual Zayed Sustainability Prize celebrates achievements that are driving impact, innovation and inspiration across five distinct categories:…
أخبار الخليج // زباري يناقش «الترابط بين المياه والطاقة والغذاء في المنطقة العربية» في المؤتمر العربي للمياه بالكويت
By: Akhbar Al Khaleej. Professor Waleed Zubari, Coordinator of the Water Resources Management Program at the Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain…
El Nexo y Agricultura // El Proyecto Sahara Forest
Convertir el desierto en un lugar verde y sostenible es el objetivo ambicioso del Proyecto 'Sahara Forest' (Bosque del Sahara), establecido en…
Nexus and SDGs // Linking the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Development Indicators for the Mediterranean Region
Food production and water provision are are two urgent socio-economic and environmental issues in the Mediterranean region. Because these aspects are…
Nexus Workshop on Human Capacity Building // European/German Nexus Case Studies in Collaboration with/UN-ESCWA in Beirut
By Nisreen Lahham and Maarit Thiem. The Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme identified the need to capacitate representatives of sector ministries,…
Water-Energy-Food Nexus // Climate Change Impacts in the MENA Region
By Lydia Anne Scherr. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is known for being one of the hottest places on Earth, and highly vulnerable to climate…
Second Nexus Executive Steering Committee Meeting // Supporting Regions, Countries and Cities
By Isabel Pasternack, Susanne Schmeier and Tina Schmiers. The second Executive Steering Committee Meeting of the Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme…
Human Capacity Building // The Major Pillar within the Nexus Regional Dialogues Programme
By Ruth Erlbeck, Ralph Trosse, Nisreen Lahham and Maarit Thiem. Capacity Building has been identified as a major driver for advancing the…
الوكالة الوطبية للإعلام // أبي خليل خلال مؤتمر الترابط بين المياه والغذاء والطاقة: الوزارة تسعى إلى تأمين موارد اضافية
Lebanese Minister of Energy & Water Cesar Abi Khalil’s remarks during “Water, Food & Energy Nexus in the Face of Global Changes: Sustainability or…
"A WEF perspective is essential for developing effective strategies for the sustainable use of essential resources"
By Jauad El Kharraz. With a water-energy-food nexus workshop held in Morocco in December, the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) and…
Call for Proposals // Water Reuse and Water Desalination for Agricultural and Food Production
PRIMA-IS is launching a call for research and innovation (RIA) proposals to mobilize the Euro-Mediterranean scientific communities, stakeholders and…
Water-Energy Nexus // "Make Water not War"
By Stefan Stahlberg. How Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan could find together through water-energy cooperation: the region can only…
MENA // Game-changing water solutions for the Middle East and North Africa
By Claudia W. Sadoff and Anders Jagerskog. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has become a hotspot of unsustainable water use, with more than…
*حلول المياه في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا
أصبحت الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا منطقة مُهددة بالاستخدام غير المستدام للمياه، حيث تجاوز أكثر من نصف عمليات سحب المياه الحالية في بعض البلدان الكمية…
MENA Region // Managing Water-Energy Nexus For Better Tomorrow
By Shahid Hasan. The world’s 7 billion people are dependent on just 3% (called freshwater) of the total volume of water on earth. The MENA region is…
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