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Volume 13, No.129, December 2008
CONTENTS

 
5

Ambitious initiatives do not beg legitimacy (editorial by Najib Saab)

16

Arab Environment 2008 AFED’s annual conference in Manama, Bahrain

28

Squandering energy is squandering a national resource by H.E. Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi minister of petroleum and mineral resources

30

Poverty is the biggest hindrance to development by Suleiman Al-Herbish, director general of OPEC Fund for International Development

32

Testimony of an old man documentary featuring Mohamed Kassas

38

AFED launches its environmental corporate responsibility programme

39

Solid waste management in aluminum smelters

47

Climate change is devastating Inuit’s way of life

52

Radiation legacy in Iraq

56

A green economy creates millions of green jobs

60

The deadly dozen: diseases spreading with climate change

62

Power from salt water by osmosis 

66

Congo River may lift Africa from poverty

68

Tin islands of Indonesia 

70

Modern technology renders Brazilian sugarcane cutters jobless

 

 


Letters 6 Environment in a month 8 UNEP news 14 new science 72 Calendar 80