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Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities

Just when you thought 2021 couldn't get any weirder...it did. Yesterday: first moderate risk, first December Tornado Watches and Warnings - record warmth and moisture content of the atmosphere made for an outbreak of crazy weather, topped off with howling winds overnight, and a morning of reluctant ice skating. The definition of weather-whiplash

As valuable as the Arctic Report Cards are, they now need to analyze ways to protect the Arctic.

Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor of International Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and Yamani Fellow in Public International Law, St Peter's College, Oxford. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where she now holds a Visiting Professorship. Before that she was a University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Lavanya holds an LLM from Yale, a DPhil and BCL from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes scholar, and a B.A.LL.B. (Honours) from National Law School, Bangalore, wher...

KEY CONCEPTS On January 20, 2021, President Biden announced that the U.S. is rejoining the Paris Agreement—an international agreement designed to avert catastrophic climate change. The central goal of the agreement is to hold global average temperatures to well below 2°C (3.6°F) above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F). It was an amazing feat to pass the Paris Agreement, but the work ahead won’t be easy. A 1.5°C target would require a global emissions decrease of 7.6% per year from 2020 to 2030, or a decrease of 2.7% per year for the 2°C t...