A Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for six minutes. Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in in Rio de Janeiro Brazil 1992 when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation. At age 9, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children ...

BirdLife International, in its role as the Regional Implementation Team (RIT) for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Mediterranean Hotspot, invite Letters of Inquiry for small grants (up to $20,000) from civil society organizations to establish the sustainable management of water catchments and the wise use of water resources with a focus on the priority corridors mentioned the Ecosystem ...

Four companies have applied for a tender to build a wind-power farm with a capacity of between 50 and 100 MW, the Ministry of Energy and Water (MoEW) said. The deadline to apply for the tender was on June 25. One of the applicants is a joint venture between Hawa Akkar, a Lebanese firm, Greece-based Construction Contractors Company (CCC), and China-based wind turbine manufacturer, Goldwind. Albert Khoury, Ch ...

More than 140 countries have agreed on a set of legally binding measures to curb mercury pollution, at UN talks. Delegates in Geneva approved measures to control the use of the highly toxic metal in order to reduce the amount of mercury released into the environment. Mercury can produce a range of adverse human health effects, including permanent damage to the nervous system. The UN recently published data ...

Most species at greatest risk from climate change are not currently conservation priorities, according to an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) study that has introduced a pioneering method to assess the vulnerability of species to climate change. The paper, published in the journal PLOS ONE, is one of the biggest studies of its kind, assessing all of the world's birds, amphibians and cor ...

Flush a toilet in Beirut and the waste water is piped out a kilometer into the Mediterranean and expelled into the sea. Flush the toilet just about anywhere else, however, and the waste is deposited just a few meters away, using the nation’s coastline as a giant toilet bowl. Beach-goers are swimming in dangerous levels of their own filth at many public beaches and resorts in the country, according to testin ...

The Jesuits Garden is a public park in the Remeil District of Beirut, Lebanon. Covering 44,000 square meters, the garden also houses a public library. Its proximity to the Greek Orthodox and Getaoui hospitals make it a popular destination for people visiting relatives and friends at the hospitals. The municipality of  Beirut decided to tear down Jesuits Garden in order to build a parking complex. This garde ...

SPNL recently participated in a regional reflection workshop, held in Morocco, regarding the “Social, Ecological and Agricultural Resilience in the face of climate change in the Mediterranean Region (SEARCH) Project”. The project which is funded by the European Union, and coordinated by the IUCN, included participants from Lebanon (SPNL and Mada), Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, and Morocco, in addition to a regi ...

SPNL in partnership with the Fakha municipality and CREADEL social organization have declared on 6 May 2013 a new Hima site in the village of El Fekha in the Anti-Lebanon Mountains of Bekaa. The project funded by the CEPF, was launched in a ceremony attended by the SPNL team, CREADEL, and members from the municipality of El Fekha and local community, and embarked the journey of future sustainable use of com ...

This film expose the transportation sector, and suggest some ways out of the congestion in the short and long term. This production is part of the Lebanese Economic Association project (TheLEAproject): Transportation in Greater Beirut; a project funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation www.fnst-amman.org ...