SUSTG.com / Research

Discover stories, topics, and more about Saudi Arebia faster.

We can't find results matching your search.

Adjust your search and try again or browse topics and stories below.

Recent stories from sustg

MUST-READS

  • ‘Do You Know How to Snowboard?’: Saudi Arabia Tries Out for Its First Winter Olympics

    While each member of the all-male squad has some winter sports experience, it’s rarely in the discipline they’re looking to qualify in. Some have competed at the school level, but most hit the slopes relatively late in life—and then often just during family vacations abroad.

  • Is climate change policy to blame for energy price spikes?

    But the global effort to fight climate change is also causing problems. Europe’s wind farms haven’t seen a good breeze in months, and droughts in China and South America have dried up power generation from hydro dams. Meanwhile, surging prices for carbon pollution credits in Europe have made fossil alternatives even more expensive, and Chinese grid operators have come under mounting political pressure to help the country meet its carbon emissions targets by burning less coal.

  • A New U.S. Weapons Exports Policy: Transformed or Simply Revamped?

    A new Conventional Arms Transfer policy based on human rights could have a major impact on the global arms trade and U.S.-Gulf relations, but questions remain as to whether recent announcements will lead to concrete policy shifts.

  • Libya: credible elections – or another failed bid at nation-building?

    Libya’s hopes of ending a decade of political chaos with credible elections at the end of this year for a president and new unified parliament have reached a defining moment, with the US insisting the vote should go ahead but some European diplomats fearing divisions are too entrenched for the result ever to be accepted as legitimate.

  • India’s startup expansion to Mena: A cause for concern?

    Since 2016, more than 50 India-based startups have expanded into the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) by making their UAE debut an entry point to the wider region. Twenty of these were already unicorns when they scaled and included the fintech PayMate, edtech Countingwell, and eyewear online retailer Lenskart.

  • Iraq’s Elections: Will Boycott Efforts Delegitimize or Entrench Discredited Status Quo?

    On October 10, Iraqis will go to the polls in parliamentary elections aimed at forming a new government. There is more at stake this time than in past elections because of the multiple crises facing the country: a campaign of violence and intimidation against a 2-year-old protest movement opposed to the state; an anemic economy; deficient services, including electricity shortages; and a competition for the future control of the country between Iranian-backed Shia militias on one side and some clerics, civil society, and some state institutions on the other.

  • Can the UN help Afghan women without supporting the Taliban?

    Afghanistan’s regime had initially promised it would respect human rights, crucially those of women. But its handling of dissent, the curtailing of women’s freedoms, and the disconnect between the plans announced by the central government and the behavior of Taliban in outposts in the country’s more remote areas is quickly showing a different picture.

  • Who funds the United Nations?

    The United Nations has 193 member states, all of which pay yearly into the organization. Those payments are called contributions, and are divided into two types: assessed and voluntary. Assessed contributions are mandatory.

  • Another headwind? Global gas price spike worries energy execs

    Energy executives gathered in Dubai on Tuesday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started, but despite being upbeat on economic recovery, they were concerned about another headwind: a global gas price spike. Natural gas prices have soared by around 280% in Europe this year and by more than 100% in the United States, pushing up winter fuel bills, and exacerbating a near-term spike in inflation in another blow to a world economy as it recovers from the coronavirus crisis.

  • Why is natural gas so expensive right now?

    The basic reason for the global price spike is a shortfall in inventory just as temperatures begin to dip (gas is the main fuel for home heating in the US and Europe). Gas stockpiles in the US are at least 7% below average; in Europe they’re more than 20% below average. Norway has agreed to increase gas exports to Europe.