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United Arab Emirates

Control room at the port of Jebel Ali, operated by the Dubai-based giant ports operator DP World in the UAE emirate of Dubai. (AFP)

UAE launches stimulus package to create ‘more flexible economic environment’

oil

Saudi Aramco’s Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia. (REUTERS)

Saudi Aramco, other oil giants join efforts to mitigate climate change

oil tanker

A view of the deck of the FSO Safer, moored off Ras Issa port, Yemen. (AP)

Decaying oil tanker risks provoking Red Sea environment disaster

environment

Abu Dhabi authority sees environment as key to future of farming

Iraqi water

A 2019 file picture shows wastewater flowing in central Basra, Iraq. (AP)

Shrinking water supplies threaten to put fragile Iraq ‘on the edge’

tunisia

A file picture of a blaze spreading through the hills of the Monatazah Ennahli Park, north of Tunis. (AFP)

Forest fires threaten Tunisia's ecosystem

UAE

A diver inspects transplanted coral near Dibba Port in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. (Reuters)

Divers re-plant coral off UAE coast to build reef

Egypt

Mohamed Omran, chairman of the Egyptian Exchange. (Reuters)

Egypt makes headway on green bond investment

MENA

Energy with potential. Wind turbines at a wind farm in the southwestern Moroccan city of Tarfaya . (AFP)

Wind energy is a ‘key technology’ with benefits for MENA