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Morocco’s green transition strategy could generate up to $8 billion in revenue by 2030 through integration with the European carbon market, representing over 3% of GDP, according to an International Monetary Fund report published in April 2025. The IMF utilized a global macroeconomic model covering 15 regions and 14 sectors to simulate the impact of […]
While global powers scramble for Africa’s critical minerals, Singapore is quietly charting a different path — targeting the continent’s carbon credits to meet its climate goals and become Asia’s carbon trading hub. The city-state, constrained by its small size and lack of natural resources, has limited scope to develop large-scale carbon offset projects domestically. Instead, […]
The role organic agriculture can play in fighting climate change effects and in boosting food security was the main theme of a debate held in the COP22 Green Zone by the federation of Moroccan organic agriculture professionals (known by its French acronym FIMABIO.) Speaking on this occasion, Andre Leu, President of the International Federation of […]
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced Wednesday it granted a €24 million loan to Elephant Vert, a Morocco-based producer of bio-fertilizers, bio-pesticides and bio-stimulants. Elephant Vert is the first company in the southern and eastern Mediterranean region exclusively dedicated to the development and production of a full range of these innovative bio-inputs. […]
Morocco, which will host 22nd UN Conference on climate changes (COP22), has submitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to address climate change to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In its INDC, the North African country pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 32 by 2030. Morocco INDC submission includes detailed […]
UN Climate Change Convention Framework indicated last week that Mauritanian submitted a plan worth $17 billion for the fight against climate change and reduction of CO2 pollution. The submitted plan focuses on the reduction of GES production by 22.3% by 2030 and it also lays focus on the CO2, le CH4 and N2O. The government’s […]
Climate change has emerged as one of the greatest challenges to international community. Increasing frequency and intensity of natural calamities caution that changing climate would have severe implications for economy and society and have potential to alter the course of development across the world. In absence of robust infrastructure, resources and technologies to cope with […]