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Madame Tussauds Dubai is home a life-size wax figure of my brother Kristan Fahd, also known as radio entertainer Kris Fade.
Embracing hope in the good, alongside recognizing the bad, can reduce eco-anxiety, improve mental health and may just be the key to driving strong and meaningful climate action.
The Sunnylands Statement has set a powerful signal for COP28, however, it also highlights that more must be done in Dubai to define what it means to achieve ‘net zero.’
Africa can check climate impact on health by taking 37 actions endorsed by environment ministers.
Private jet from London to COP28 in Dubai is 11 times more polluting than a commercial aircraft.
Tackling the climate crisis starts with breaking our addiction to fuel. A task complicated by fuels essential role in both promoting and threatening global human security.
Temperature records are tumbling – how much progress is really being made towards tackling climate change?
UAE will preside over talks to limit climate change – despite revelations it plans oil deals.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2022 tightening the rules for foreign investment in the US.
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council have exploited the underlying threats of the virus to bolster their own survival strategies.
Visitors to Dubai are drawn to its carefully created and recreated urban precincts, but placemaking in this city helps sugercoat the reality of autocratic rule.
Saudi Arabia portrays itself as a leading supporter of humanitarian aid, especially to the Palestinians, but the country’s leadership has an ambivalent strategy towards the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Governments have started to see automation as the key to brighter urban futures. But what will this look like?
Teachers make a significant difference to their students’ lives – sometimes against all odds – and they deserve to be celebrated.
Excessive indulgence is the city’s unifying theme. It’s also a way to end your life. Just ask Stephen Paddock.
The UK foreign secretary has been talking up the merits of clearing away bodies to build a new Dubai on the Libyan Med.
The digital economy in the US is already on the verge of stalling; failing to protect an open internet would further erode the United States’ digital competitiveness.
With 35 new inter-city routes shortlisted for testing, it’s time to start taking hyperloop seriously.
A new modern art exhibition in Tehran is being promoted as a bracing act of cultural diplomacy. But we should look a little deeper.
Top contributors
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Visiting Scholar, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
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Director of Sheffield Institute of Education and Professor of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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James Martin Fellow, Oxford Martin School, Environmental Change Institute and Institute for Science Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
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Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration, University of Cambridge
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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PhD Candidate, UCL
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Chercheuse sur le Moyen-Orient, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) et Enseignante Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University at Buffalo
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Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
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Doctoral Research Candidate in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Lecturer in Economics and the Environment, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Professor of Physical Climate Change; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds
