Jordan Watch: Environment

Jordan's Nascent Environmental Market Takes Shape

Sat, 30 May 2009 22:32:00 GMT

Jordan has developed into a vibrant business market in the Middle East. The country is strategically located in the heart of the Middle East and has taken an early informed judgment to open up its economic policy and fully integrate within the global economic system. Between 1999 and 2003 Jordan has established three pillars of trade liberalization by joining the WTO, developing a bilateral FTA with... [read more]

Jordan and Climate Change

Sat, 30 May 2009 02:08:00 GMT

This article was originally published in Jordan Property Magazine issue of May 2009 The year 2009 will be exceptional for global climate change policies. Denmark will host the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) in December. The meeting will hopefully mark the turning point in the world’s effort to effectively combat climate change and it will be the last chance for a new global... [read more]

Carbon Neutral City to be built in Jordan

Tue, 20 May 2008 23:47:00 GMT

This is one of the most exciting breaking news I heared for a while. If this project is implemented with a high standard of committment, it will be a turning point for housing and urbanization in Jordan. This article was published in the very impressive and new UAE newspaper: The National Chris Stanton The master planners of Abu Dhabi’s carbon-neutral community were now working on the... [read more]

Renewable energy shift in Jordan

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:02:49 GMT

A paradigm shift is being developed in energy management at the national level. The previous dependence on foreign oil imports is coming to an end with a new package of legislative, administrative and technological innovations aiming to steer the country into more reliable, sustainable and even environmentally friendly energy resources. Of course this transition is governed by necessity and financial... [read more]

The Environmental law is here to stay, and influence!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:56:00 GMT

I have published this article in the weekly "The Star" newspaper. I am hoping to publish a weekly environmental article in this newspaper starting next week. I hope you find it useful In the past few weeks readers of the daily newspapers in Jordan were getting information about the closure, penalization and warnings of various factories and developmental facilities in Jordan due to environmental... [read more]

The Dibbin Campaign Explained

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:57:00 GMT

For the past two weeks we have been witnessing a healthy debate in the Jordanian blogsphere about the controversial mega tourism project to be established inside the Dibbin Forest. Most bloggers who have particiapted in the debate support a rather "vague" online petition created by national environmental NGOs to save Dibbin forest from that project by relocating the place to outside the forest. Other... [read more]