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Volume 12, No.108, March 2007
CONTENTS

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Arab initiatives at UNEP’s governing council (editorial by Najib Saab)

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Investing in renewable energy in the Arab region cover story

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Wind generates 1% of world electricity, why is it neglected by Arab countries?

26

Renewable energy technologies Environment 2007 exhibition and conference in Abu Dhabi

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Will UNEP transform into a UN Environment Organization (UNEO)?

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The Arab Forum for Environment and Development announces its programmes in Abu Dhabi and Nairobi
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Organic farming sweeps the globe: Lebanon has great potential to produce tastiest fruits and vegetables interview with IFOAM’s Bernward Geier
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Acacia tree: fountain of gum Arabic
52 Looking for lynx in the Swiss Alps
60 Arab leopards in Oman
63 Iraq’s massacres: human, health and environmental horrors

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Agent Orange and black environmental crimes
68 Freeganism a movement defying extravagance
72 Algeria’s dams choking with mud
75 Salute to Munzer Dagher


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etters to the editor 8 Environment in a month 10 Cartoons 71 Green Library 74 Environment market 76 Calendar 78