2010: A tough year for the environment

As 2010 comes to an end, Al-Masry Al-Youm takes a look at the main environmental news–both local and international–for this year. Climate Change: The year kicked off with turbulence for the climate change agenda. Firstly, the fiasco of the Copenhagen summit, held in December 2009, left many around the world wondering if there was room…

350.org’s Global Work Party

Sunday marked a day of global environmental activism as 350.org, an international campaign to solve the climate crisis, held its highly publicized Global Work Party. The event aimed to send a strong message to world leaders that civic environmental engagement is the necessary way forward to confront the impending crisis. In the words of 350.org…