Sustainability Archives

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Celebrate Qatar Sustainability Week with Heenat Salma’s ‘special day pass’

The annual event is taking place in its seventh edition, focusing on the health and wellbeing of Qatar’s community and to driving sustainability. Get ready to join in the celebration of Qatar…

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Tree planting and beach clean ups: Earthna Centre prepares for annual Qatar Sustainability Week

Qatar Sustainability Week is a national campaign that is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of Qatar’s community and to driving sustainability at various levels by building on the strong foundation of…

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Pakistan floods ‘fuelled’ by climate change: research

Researchers are making quick assessments of the connections between global warming and weather disasters according to a developing field called attribution science. Mid-June saw the onset of unusually high rain…

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New eco-friendly transport: Karwa’s green plan

Qatar has taken one step closer to achieving its goal of reducing a huge portion of its carbon emissions by 2030, here’s how. The Gulf nation has succeeded in converting…

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Greener scenes sprout up across Qatar as mangroves double in size

Mangrove ecosystems store significant amounts of carbon in the soil, leaves, and branches, significantly tackling carbon emissions. In a hopeful step toward a greener future, the Gulf nation’s authorities have…

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Doha Renews: your inbox is affecting the environment, here’s how

A single email can be anywhere between 0.03g CO2e to 26g CO2e. The urgency given to how human activity affects the environment is growing with each passing year, and the…

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Doha Renews: Zakey, the Qatar-based startup tackling food waste

Zakey is an application dedicated to selling overstocked and near-expiry foods at a fraction of the original price in Qatar. Every year, roughly one-third of the food produced for human…

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Qatar orders all firms to begin sorting waste from October or face penalty

Less plastic bags, more recycling: All about Qatar’s new firm recycling policies. All firms will be required to place containers for sorting solid waste at their facilities starting October 1,…

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Scientists warn major sea-level rise ‘inevitable’ due to melting Greenland ice cap

Losses will lead to a minimum rise of 27cm regardless of climate change, according to scientists. Even if the burning of fossil fuels that is causing the climate crisis were…

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