Contents of leading Pan-Arab Environment Magazine
AL-BIA WAL-TANMIA
The Leading Pan-Arab Environment Magazine
Volume 12, No.108, March 2007
CONTENTS
7
Arab initiatives at UNEP’s governing council (editorial by Najib Saab)
18
Investing in renewable energy in the Arab region cover story
24
Wind generates 1% of world electricity, why is it neglected by Arab countries?
26
Renewable energy technologies Environment 2007 exhibition and conference in Abu Dhabi
34
Will UNEP transform into a UN Environment Organization (UNEO)?
38
The Arab Forum for Environment and Development announces its programmes in Abu Dhabi and Nairobi
40
Organic farming sweeps the globe: Lebanon has great potential to produce tastiest fruits and vegetables interview with IFOAM’s Bernward Geier
48
Acacia tree: fountain of gum Arabic
52
Looking for lynx in the Swiss Alps
60
Arab leopards in Oman
63
Iraq’s massacres: human, health and environmental horrors
64
Agent Orange and black environmental crimes
68
Freeganism a movement defying extravagance
72
Algeria’s dams choking with mud
75
Salute to Munzer Dagher