Middle East and North Africa

Tech

Can desalination save a drying world?

The falling price of technology and growth in renewables mean desalination is fast becoming a key climate adaptation tool for dry countries.

Nick Ferris

Policy

How to reach ‘zero waste’ alongside net zero

Features

Mining and gas sectors expected to lead FDI into Africa in 2023

Features

UAE out to prove doubters wrong on sustainability

Renewables

Saudi Arabia will host the Middle East’s largest solar facility

Carbon markets

Weekly data: The 2022 World Cup may emit more than any international sporting event in the last 12 years

Hydrogen

Egypt and India to develop green hydrogen plant in the Suez Canal

Networks/grids

Energy efficiency projects for gas infrastructure are an overlooked solution

Innovation

Adaptation lessons from Israel’s Negev Desert: A source of climate hope

Nick Ferris

International treaties

Opinion: Israel-EU gas contract could lessen suffering for Palestine

Nour Ghantous

Built environment

Is Saudi Arabia’s ‘The Line’ just an oil crisis failsafe?

Nour Ghantous

Sustainable finance

Weekly data: Private investors turning their back on Global South

Nick Ferris

Renewables

Arab states target fivefold increase in wind and solar by 2030

Energy Monitor Staff

Policy

Will sandstorms force the Gulf to address climate change?

Nour Ghantous

Reporting and disclosure

NGO blasts Qatar World Cup’s “misleading” carbon-neutrality claim

Energy Monitor Staff

Power

Weekly data: Africa’s diesel generation boom

Nick Ferris

Hydrogen

Why hydrogen is not the answer to petrostates’ woes

Nick Ferris

Decarbonising gas

Levidian and Zero Carbon to roll out 500 gas decarbonisation systems across UAE

Energy Monitor Staff

Hydrogen

Europe must unlock the Middle East as a provider of clean fuels

Olivia Azadegan

Cleaner fuels

Weekly data: EU gas supplier switch could benefit climate as well as security

Nick Ferris

Networks/grids

OGE and TES to develop 1,000km CO2 transport network in Germany

Energy Monitor Staff

Industry

Is the Gulf Cooperation Council serious about averting climate catastrophe?

Jon Whiteaker

Industry

Will the West’s thirst for non-Russian oil bring a renewed friendship with Saudi Arabia?

Ruth Strachan

Market design

Will renewables bring light to a particularly dark situation in Lebanon?

Isabeau van Halm

Green bonds

Climate adaptation still needs major scale-up

Energy Monitor Staff

Energy storage

DRC well placed to move up the lithium battery value chain – BloombergNEF

Energy Monitor Staff

Innovation

The power of gaming: Inside Abu Dhabi’s winning esports ecosystem

Julian Turner

Sustainable finance

Wealthy governments still subsidising fossil fuels in developing nations

Nick Ferris

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