Morocco’s Plastic Plague: A formal system… with informal connections Plastic Atlas Plastic represents 10 percent of household waste in Morocco or around 690,000 tonnes a year. There is also a lot of plastic found in industrial waste (granules, industrial packaging waste...) and in waste produced by the agricultural sector. Yet, only a very small portion of this is recycled. By Ayman Rachid
A New Paradigm for Plastics By focusing environmental and public-health debates on the issue of waste-management, plastics producers have managed to conceal the elephant in the room. But governments and consumers can no longer ignore the fact that plastic is a problem at all stages of its life cycle – not just after it ends up in the ocean. By Lili Fuhr and Jane Patton
Will COVID-19 Repair the Damage Caused by Mankind? Some believe that the COVID-19 pandemic has reduced the greenhouse gases causing climate change. This belief is inaccurate, as the pandemic has only reduced the emission of these gases for a temporary period. However, a few months will not reverse what human activity has caused since the industrial revolution. By Safa’ Al Jayoussi
“How on Earth Are We Discussing Article 6?” During the climate conference COP25, negotiators were unable to reach a consensus on the adoption of Article 6 - one of the unresolved agenda items from the Paris Agreement. Meanwhile, half a million people took to the streets of Madrid calling for climate justice. By Najla Abdellatif
How Transportation Can Help Jordan Achieve its Climate Commitments Jordan is joining the fight against climate change. The desert kingdom has determined to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 14% until 2030. The transportation sector offers a unique opportunity to implement the country’s climate commitments while also tackling the mounting traffic congestion problem. By Ali Attari
Palestine Leading International Climate Negotiations Less than four years after being recognized as a state party at the United Nations’ climate change negotiations, Palestine is now leading the UN’s largest group of developing nations. By Najla Abdellatif
On Landscape Transformations and Sketching on the Road: between Jerusalem and Birzeit Takhayal Ramallah Personal reading of the various aspects involved in moving between two points to write an ever-regenerating memory and a perception that is reshaped by geopolitical changes, day after day. By Mira Idris
Beyond the prototype: Rukab Street as an Agri-Puncture showroom Takhayal Ramallah What Ramallah is experiencing in terms of the current political stagnation, sharp economic inequalities, and the real estate boom is having major impacts on the city’s urban and environmental deformation and destruction . By Isra Assaf and Riham Abu Khadejih