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ICC launches Building Safety Month 2025
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Under the theme “Game On!”, the campaign encourages individuals, organisations, and communities to learn about and prioritise building safety. It seeks to encourage engagement at the local level in strengthening the built environment, particularly in rapidly growing regions such as the GCC countries.
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What is a ‘smart city’ and why should we care?
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Over the past two decades, governments around the world have poured billions into smart city initiatives, often with more ambition than clarity. The result has been a patchwork of projects: some genuinely transformative, others flashy but shallow.
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Today’s Geopolitics as envisioned from the MENA region
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After the decline of the European empires, new powers like the USA, China, and Russia eagerly focused on the African continent, a treasure trove of energy and minerals. Each seeks to flaunt its most alluring assets, with China’s
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Top 10: Sustainable Construction Projects
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The built environment is one of the largest contributors to climate change. The construction, maintenance and use of buildings accounts for 40% of all greenhouse gas emissions and as such the construction industry shoulders a huge responsibility when it comes to global sustainability.
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Middle East economic growth downgrades hint at greater instability
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The recent slashing of growth prospects for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region this year by the World Bank and IMF to 2.6 per cent and 3 per cent, respectively, is a harbinger of greater political instability in the region.
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UK lawmaker calls for regulation of Big Tech
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Big Tech faced a call for increased regulation and scrutiny at the Global Security Forum 2025 Tuesday from a UK lawmaker who argued that the current relationship between governments and tech giants may be compromised and poses a strategic security risk.
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Sustainable Solutions Made Possible by Chemistry
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“Since the first Earth Summit in 1992, the chemical industry has played an essential and integrated role in delivering solutions that enable inclusive and greener economies,” ICCA President Andrew N. Liveris, chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, said. “Today, more than 20 years later, our industry is a proactive participant at Rio+20, highlighting innovations, technologies and processes that are applied around the world, every day, delivering on the promise of sustainability and made possible only through the application of chemistry.”
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Gaza In Ruins: The Environmental Toll of the Israel-Hamas War
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Although Palestine is a relatively small territory, it has historically been an ecologically rich area due to the abundant groundwater dispersed by sand wells throughout Gaza. More than 250 species of birds and 100 species of mammals rely on these sources of water. The health of Gazan wildlife, ecosystems and freshwater has been in decline for many decades, and has taken a sharper downtown since the war began.
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Sustainable construction: What’s needed to drive action in 2025 and beyond?
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In an era marked by major demographic, social, energy and climate challenges, sustainable construction is no mere trend – it’s an urgent necessity. As the construction sector faces the task of accelerating its transformation to meet immense challenges, the 2025 Sustainable Construction Barometer, a global survey published by Saint-Gobain’s Sustainable Construction Observatory
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