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Saudi Arabia

A 2019 file shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud (L) meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Riyadh. DPA

Putin, Saudi crown prince discuss the environment

tunisia

Sousse port where hundreds of illegal containers of Italian household waste still wait to be sent back. (AFP)

Italy pressed to remove illegal waste shipment from Tunisia

Morocco

An electric bus runs in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakech. (AFP)

Morocco ranks best in MENA in 2021 Green Future Index

UAE

A UAE official from the national center for meteorology and seismology check salt flares attached to a twin-propeller Beechcraft plane and which are fired into clouds. (AP)

UAE announces $1.5 million grant for rain enhancement studies

UAE

Then-US Vice-President Joe Biden, centre, listens to Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber UAE minister of state and the chairman of Masdar, first right, during his visit to Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, March 7, 2016. (Reuters)

Israel, UAE sign renewable energy agreement

environment

A general view of the Bourj Hammoud fishing port, north of Beirut, in front of a large landfill dump (background). (AFP)

Environmental degradation exacerbates Lebanon’s crises

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz launching ‘The Line,” a green city that can accommodate about one million people, at NEOM. (AFP)

Saudi Arabia announces plan to construct zero-carbon city

Oman

Former inhabitants of Wadi al-Murr gather near abandoned houses in the Omani village, about 400 kms south-west of the capital Muscat. (AFP)

Omanis rediscover village swallowed by the desert

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Environment Minister Abdulrahman al-Fadley. (AFP)

New Saudi environment fund to promote biodiversity, wildlife