Doha Green News

While world leaders and environmentalists gather in Denmark for the 11-day Copenhagen Climate Conference (COP15 Summit), the Japanese Embassy here has been giving its own discussions and lectures about the environment. It was a journey of piecing together information about...

Green building technology is among the main topics to be discussed at the �Doha Green Conference� to be held from December 9 to 10 at the Moevenpick Towers and Suites. �The conference falls in line with many topics such as...

More than 1,700 Qatalum employees and their families participated in the �One Earth, One Family�, an entertainment and awareness event organised by the company at the Sea Line Beach Resort on the third day of Eid Al Adha. The event...

The Traffic Department is planning to introduce a point-to-point radar system on highways to catch erring drivers, a senior official of the Department said yesterday. The plan is to install radars at close distances to monitor motorists who tend to...

Or that it has prompted a feeding frenzy among international traders. The money at stake for such things as fish for sushi, the red coral fashioned into jewelry for Italian stores and the shark-fin soup served at Chinese banquets has...

The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) is all set to phase out the overhead power lines in the country. As part of its mission, Kahramaa has already replaced overhead power lines with the underground cables at several residential...

Billions of people around the world are facing political instability as a result of climate change, and international negotiations are failing to address the issue, a prominent peace-building organisation has said. In a report entitled Climate Change, Conflict and Fragility...

Doha meet would lay foundation to the aviation industry�s agenda at the Copenhagen Climate Summit. The meet would come out with a unified vision about the Climate Summit, he said. Mohammad Al Alji said an estimated one billion passengers are...

Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday. "If we get the right sources, it is possible that 15 percent of...

Though the civil aviation sector accounts for only two per cent of the global carbon emission, the industry has conducted sufficient research on the usage of alternative fuels, from the prospective of both environment and cost. Qatar Airways, Virgin Atlantic,...