Najib Saab

Moments before I started writing this article, I received an invitation from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to help collect project proposals aimed at supporting the “environmental human rights of indigenous communities.” At first glance, I thought that the genocide against…

Participants in the Middle East and North Africa Climate Week, which was hosted by Riyadh a few days ago, did not debate whether the climate was changing or not, but rather went directly to devising practical solutions to the inevitable challenge. Instead of just casting doubts and complaining…

Arab Eco-Futures was the topic of my speech at the opening of Climate Future Week, organized by Museum of the Future in Dubai, in association with Fiker Institute. Main theme of my talk was that the future of the environment is determined by sound management of natural resources. This requires not…

The summer of 2023 recorded the highest temperatures in the world, along with natural disasters the likes of which we have not witnessed before. It is true that fires and floods are natural occurring phenomena, but this summer they swept through new areas, and were distinguished by their size,…

The heated debate surrounding the selection of a replacement for Frans Timmermans, Executive Vice President of the European Union Commission responsible for climate policy and the EU’s Green Deal, underscores the central place climate secured for itself in the international political arena…

"Had I known that my success would be at the expense of destroying the planet, I would have chosen another job." lamented the founder of one of the largest budget travel and tourism operators in Europe. That was in the wake of the fires in the Greek Islands and the floods in Slovenia, where…

As the forthcoming climate summit (COP28) in Dubai approaches, public relations firms are scrambling to offer their services to clients from both private and public sectors, specifically in the Gulf countries. These legitimate attempts to win new contracts, by seizing the opportunity of the…

The multifaceted campaign against renewable energies reminds us of the campaign against natural gas, when its use began to expand in the 1960s. Coal producers hired a group of heavy-weight public relations firms to spread news about the health hazards of gas, and the dangers of pipe explosions and…

United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, was barely done speaking about the need to stop all investments in fossil fuels, when the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, stressed the need for an immediate shift towards renewable energy and abandoning…

While the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) was holding its 20th meeting in Marseille, on the southern coast of France, the region was witnessing the most terrible humanitarian disaster it has known for decades. A fishing boat smuggling migrants sank in international waters…