Environmental Justice Articles

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.  

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.

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.  

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.

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 .

 It is an adage of the times that “information” is “power”. Under these terms we immediately think about information as numerical units, statistics, quantities and a wide range of computable data, which can later be used to take strategic decisions.

The writer choose Al-Sahel Street in Beit Jala as the geography to study and imagine how this dangerous yet vibrant street can turn into a safe and diverse place, with sidewalks that can positively influence socio-political and cultural engagement in and with the city.