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Volume 10, No.93, December 2005
CONTENTS

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What will the NGOs say in Dubai (editorial by Najib Saab)

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Why postpone nuclear contamination remediation in Iraq? (Clean up of chemically polluted sites recently lauched by UNEP)
18 The last forest in Beirut (photo feature on the green campus of the 140-year-old American University of Beirut) (cover story)

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CO2 capture and storage: Could it minimize climate change?

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Enhancing private and finance institutions to invest in the environment (by Riyad Salameh, governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon)

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Artificial islands in Dubai (environmental pros and cons)
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Environment culture programmes in Sharjah
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Orchids in Oman
50 The Danube: Europe's blue river
56 EXPO 2005: Cherishing nature's wisdom
60 Best wildlife pictures of the year (photo contest by London's Natural History Museum and BBC)
64 Environmental management at the municipal level (training workshop in Beirut for Arab municipalities)
68 Dirty Thirty (Europe's most polluting power plants)


Arab environment public opinion survey (Questionnaire supplement)

Letters to the editor 6 - Environment in a month 12 -UNEP news 32 - The young environmentalist 71 -Environment market 76 - Green library 78 - Calendar 80