Desal is an energy problem first. We've treated water and power as separate silos for too long. Coupled planning is how a Gulf water strategy holds under real stress.
The #UAE is preparing to co-host the 2026 UN Water Conference alongside Senegal this December, positioning itself as a model for building a climate-resilient and circular water economy in arid regions.
In this Policy Wall episode, experts discuss progress under the UAE Water Security Strategy 2036, desalination efficiency, demand-side water management, and the growing role of #AI and regional cooperation in securing the #Gulf's water future.
Watch here: youtu.be/tY0ndHF2oew
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Equinor is warning governments, not markets. The lever against this kind of pressure is capacity you own: storage, renewables, nuclear baseload. Every GW we've built here made those threats weaker.
World risks being ‘unliveable’ if new oil and gas fields approved say all the worlds climate scientists and anyone who isn’t corrupted by this insidious industry bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zx…
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This matters. Over 90 per cent of global water investment is still publicly financed. Scaling borehole programs across the Sahel will need blended finance so communities get lasting systems, not single installs.
A NEW SOURCE OF HOPE IN NIGER
A new deep borehole is bringing clean water, health, dignity, and hope to communities in Niger.
Clean water. Brighter futures.
#MuslimHands #GiftOfWater #CleanWater #Niger #WaterForAll
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$1.7T on AI while adaptation finance sits at $26B. The capital exists. What's missing is standardized project preparation that turns needs into pipelines institutional money can actually enter.
Humanity spends almost $6trillion trying to get rid of itself and 1,7 trillion in making us avoid learning ie dumber but 'more efficient'. Thanks Sasja Beslik for sharing this diagram..
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Lorenzo Simonelli, Chairman and CEO at Baker Hughes, is among the global energy leaders participating in the ADIPEC Strategic Conference.
As technology, industrial capability and market requirements continue to converge, ADIPEC will bring together voices from across the energy system to examine how innovation, collaboration and operational resilience can support long-term performance and global progress.
Join 1,800+ speakers and 16,500+ delegates at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi from 2-5 November 2026. Register as a delegate: bit.ly/4fepEwK
#ADIPEC #ADNOC #Innovation #EnergyLeadership #EnergyCollaboration #GlobalEnergy
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Seahorse Magic-Powder retweeted
How can investment help strengthen Africa’s water resilience?
Speaking to @Bloomberg Next Africa, HE Abdulla Balalaa discusses the global water sector’s $6.7 trillion gap, the investment needed to help communities prepare and adapt, and the risks El Niño poses to food security and hydropower.
Watch the interview here:
bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…
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Declining ore grades are real, but the jump from 'harder extraction' to 'civilization must end' skips a lot of middle. Modern PV and wind carry enough EROI to sustain an industrial base. The binding constraint is capital and deployment speed, not physics.
An article published on un-denial got me thinking about the feedback mechanisms which could push global civilization towards a rapidly accelerating simplification. Not because some evil / stupid / fill-in-the-blank people started a war, but because all technological civilizations are inherently unsustainable, and because they must come to an end no matter what.
The Predicament
The manufacturing, use and decommissioning of all our modern technologies require abundant mineral and energy flows. Non-renewable resources are at the core of every product and service we use: from all the metal and plastic parts in your car to the very screen you are reading this essay on. Powering these devices with fossil fuels or “renewables” is but a secondary question to the core of our technological and ecological predicament: the impossibility of maintaining a high-tech industrial civilization on a dwindling resource and ecological base.
Naysayers, of course, treat this as “Malthusian” thinking, as if slapping a label on an idea could automatically negate it. The hand-waving over resource depletion and treating it as a mere technical issue is, however, nothing but a form of denial. See, in order to dismiss the uncomfortable truth of our civilization’s predicament one has to reject a number of well established and proven trends:
•the logical fallacy of endless recycling
•the rapidly worsening energy and material return on investment, and
•the exponentially rising cost of complexity.
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Every autumn I watch these storks pass over the region and fewer make it through. Heavy weapons against defenceless birds next to homes is a crime. The authorities must enforce the law now. #Lebanon
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Solar plus storage is now the cheapest new generation in most markets. We're phasing out fossil fuels, just not fast enough to keep Octobers looking like Octobers.
It’s going to be in the mid 80s in New York today, and it’s October. This is really hot for October.
But the world is never going to cool back down again.
And this is only the beginning if we don’t phase out fossil fuels.
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Agreed. Hardware is the easy part. Without real-time emissions data open to public scrutiny, the devices will exist on paper and the air won't change.
Subsidising pollution control is not the same as preventing pollution.
If industries in NCR are to receive 30–40% public subsidy for installing pollution control devices, scheme must come with strict conditions like measurable emission reductions, real-time data transparency, third party verification & consequences for non compliance.
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Congratulations. With over 610 applications, earning a Blue Zone slot is no small thing. Events like yours keep WASH and menstrual health at the heart of the Conference. See you in Abu Dhabi.
December 2026. Abu Dhabi. 🇳🇬🇱🇷🌍
We’ll see you there.
More details soon! 🥂
#FlowWithPride #UNWaterConference #UNWaterConference2026 #NoWaterNoDignity #MenstrualHealth #WASH #MenstrualHygiene #WaterForPeople #SDG6 #Nigeria #Liberia #Africa
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Nino 3.4 at +3.23C - beyond every analog on record. Every desalination design floor, reservoir rule curve and drainage spec I've ever worked with was sized on a hydrology that no longer exists. I'd be raising this reading at every design review this quarter.
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Seahorse Magic-Powder retweeted
Abu Dhabi all set for biggest Global Food Week edition yet
#AletihadNewsCenter #UAE @globalfoodweek.ae @adnecad
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Watching this from a region where every degree of SST shift changes rainfall and desal demand. El Nino years here mean weaker rains, stressed soils, longer irrigation seasons. The ratchet shows up in operational costs before headlines.
We are tipping into a warmer climate or it is like a ratchet. Here some videos for those interested to invest in climate restoring not adding the x super car or super helicopter to their collection.
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Backup generators sized for outage duty running as de facto baseload is a known dodge when grid interconnection lags. The fix is faster interconnects and on-site storage, not a $1M fine after the NOx is already out.
US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits.
Records show Vineland facility in New Jersey emitted health-harming pollution before regulators stepped in. theguardian.com/environment/…
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أتابع أسبوع الغذاء العالمي في أبوظبي باهتمام. الحلول المعروضة تُختبر في ظروف قاسية فعلاً: حرارة عالية، ملوحة عالية، وشح مياه. هذه أنظمة غذائية مرنة مثبتة على أرض الواقع.
تدخل دولة الإمارات شهر أكتوبر 2026 بأجندة حافلة من المعارض والمؤتمرات، التي تجمع قطاعات الثقافة والفنون والاستثمار والاقتصاد الأخضر والغذاء والتعليم والاستدامة، بما يعكس تنوع منظومة الفعاليات التي تستضيفها الدولة وقدرتها على توفير منصات تجمع المشاركين والخبراء وصنّاع القرار من مختلف أنحاء العالم.
وتشهد هذه الفعاليات مشاركات دولية واسعة تجسد حضور الإمارات كوجهة رئيسية لاستضافة الأحداث المتخصصة، بما يعزز فرص تبادل الخبرات والمعارف، ويدعم التواصل بين القطاعات الاقتصادية والثقافية والمجتمعية المختلفة.
وتستضيف أبوظبي خلال الفترة من 6 حتى 8 أكتوبر، فعاليات الأسبوع العالمي للغذاء 2026 في مركز أدنيك أبوظبي، تحت شعار "بناء مستقبل غذائي قابل للتوسع معاً"، مع التركيز على الابتكار والاستدامة والتعاون الدولي لبناء أنظمة غذائية أكثر مرونة وقدرة على مواجهة التحديات المستقبلية.
#مركز_الاتحاد_للأخبار
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Seahorse Magic-Powder retweeted
🚨Carbon-ve cement, enhanced rock weathering & ocean alkalinity enhancement may look different, but they share a core chemistry: enhanced weathering of alkaline silicate rocks generates alkalinity that can enable CO₂ removal.
New @iScience_CP paper compares the 3 pathways🧵1/13
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That's a monitor lizard, not an alligator. Harmless to people and great at clearing rats and pests around a compound. I'd let them be rather than kill or sell them.
This is the exact same reptile I’ve been seeing in my compound.
The first time I saw it…They were two and very big, bigger than this one but my phone was not with me that day.
It was my daughter that captured this one on Sunday and showed me when I got back from church.
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الربط بين الذكاء الاصطناعي والسياسة المالية خطوة صحيحة. مراكز البيانات وحدها ستفرض ضغطاً كبيراً على شبكات الكهرباء والمياه، والتخطيط المالي يجب أن يستوعب ذلك من الآن.
قطر تشارك في اجتماع وزراء المالية العرب بأبوظبي
لبحث فرص السياسات المالية في الذكاء الاصطناعي
شاركت دولة قطر في الاجتماع الـ17 لمجلس وزراء المالية العرب، الذي يُنظّمه صندوق النقد العربي في العاصمة الإماراتية أبوظبي، بمشاركة خبراء من صندوق النقد الدولي والبنك الدولي، ومنظَّمة التعاون والتنمية الاقتصادية.
وترأَّس وكيل الوزارة المساعد للشؤون الاقتصادية بوزارة المالية، سعود بن عبدالله العطية، الوفد القطري المشارِك في الاجتماع، وَفْق تدوينة للوزارة على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي "إكس".
وناقش الاجتماع عددًا من الملفات المرتبطة بالسياسات المالية والاقتصاد في الدول العربية، من بينها: فرص الذكاء الاصطناعي في السياسة المالية والمالية العامة، إلى جانب سُبُل توفير التمويل المستدام لدعم تطوير بنية تحتية مستدامة.
كما تضمَّن جدول الأعمال استعراض تجارب عددٍ من الدول العربية، بالإضافة إلى عرض قدَّمته منظمة التعاون والتنمية الاقتصادية حول أحدث التطورات في تطبيق القرارات والسياسات الضريبية.
#الدوحة
#قطر
#مجلس_وزارة_المالية_العرب
#أبو_ظبي
#اقتصاد
#أعمال
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