Here is the full text of the speech by King Mohammad IV of Morocco delivered on his behalf by Prime Minister Abbas El-Fasi at the Copenhagen COP 15   Your Majesties,Your Excellencies,Mr. Secretary-General,Ladies and Gentlemen, I should like, first of all, to thank Her Majesty the Queen, the Government and the people of Denmark for their good organization of the Copenhagen Summit Conference... [read more]

Source: Petra News Agency   His Majesty King Abdullah on Thursday called on the international community to shoulder its responsibility to protect the future of humanity by combating climate change. In a speech at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen delivered by HRH Prince Hamzah, the King stressed Jordan’s support for international efforts to arrive at a just, fair and effective... [read more]

Source: Wall Street Journal   By SPENCER SWARTZ   With some of the world's fastest-growing oil consumers under pressure to cut carbon emissions, big petroleum-producing states are beginning to fret over a long-term drop in crude-oil revenue. For years, oil-producing states have worried about rich nations like the U.S. cutting back on energy consumption through conservation or... [read more]

Source: Going Green   Patrick Galey   As a small country, Lebanon punches above its weight in many spheres. Its financial sector is apparently invulnerable to global shocks; it has the largest stockpile of gold in the Middle East. Lebanon’s graduates are some to the best qualified on the planet; tri-lingual ex-pat businessmen and entrepreneurs frequently occupy top positions... [read more]

Source: AFP   By Andrew Newby   Dubai's debt crisis may make a small dent in its greenhouse gas emissions but the Gulf emirate faces an enormous task to cut carbon to the levels to be proposed at the UN climate summit starting this week. Dubai and the rest of the United Arab Emirates have the world's highest per capita carbon footprint according to the authoritative WWF Living... [read more]

Source: The Media Line   Written by Benjamin Joffe-WaltPublished Sunday, December 06, 2009   As the petroleum powers send their negotiating teams to the Copenhagen climate change summit, Middle Eastern analysts debate what role the Arab world is likely to play. The oily lands of the Middle East have an image problem. As the nations of the world prepare for the most significant... [read more]

It is unfortunate that Saudi Arabia is still playing a disruptive role in the climate negotiations supported by some so-called "resaerchers" who write in Saudi newspapers with skeptic positions regarding the climate change scientific foundations. This is a feature that was published in the UAE's National newspaper which is also completely biased to the Saudi argument   Wael Mahdi, Foreign... [read more]

This article, published by the Wall Street Journal documents the positions of the key countries having a strong impact on the outcome of the Copenhagen conference. Strangely though, they have missed Saudi Arabia which has a strong and influential-albeit negative- impact on the negotiations!   This week, officials from 192 countries will meet in Copenhagen to tackle global climate change,... [read more]

For the first time in the history of press, to the best of my knowledge a common global editorial was published by 56 newspapers in 45 countries. The editorial was written by the Guardian today on the occasion of opening the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen. I am not sure yet if it was published in newspaper from the Arab world. This is the full text   Copenhagen climate change... [read more]