UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
Ministry publishes main principles of plan after environment ministers met over the weekend with city's mayor, members of task force appointed 2 weeks ago for formulating such a program. Praising the Environmental Protection Ministry’s new emergency plan to mitigate pollution in the Haifa Bay region, Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav stressed …
Israel has signed a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to develop protocols and systems to use satellite technology for life-saving activities on Earth and beyond. Among the projects will be the use of satellites to take photos of areas where natural and other …
The Dan and Egged bus fleets cause the most air pollution in the country’s heavy-vehicle sector, a study by the Environmental Protection Ministry, which examined the 2014 emissions of heavy-vehicle companies across the nation, revealed on Wednesday. With 1,296 and 2,722 heavy vehicles, respectively, the two bus companies have the …
With the cooperation of 25 Knesset members across a variety of parties, MK Eitan Broshi (Zionist Union) has submitted a bill that aims to promote electricity generation from renewable-energy sources. The bill, submitted on Sunday, calls for the establishment of national objectives in the renewable energy sector and would set …
Over a 10-year period, about 780 of the 4,860 cancer cases found in the region likely resulted from air pollution. After meeting over the weekend with Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay (Kulanu) decided on Sunday to launch a special task force focused on mitigating Haifa Bay’s …
Eleven firefighting squads and four aircraft were dispatched Monday to extinguish a raging forest fire which ravaged large areas in the Wadi Ara region near Haifa. Blazes were also reported in other locations in northern Israel, as well as around Jerusalem. In Wadi Ara, the blaze broke out near the …
A comprehensive report on Israel’s treatment of hazardous waste recommends imposing a fee on the companies that produce such waste to cover the costs of its disposal. It also recommends splitting the government company that handles the waste into two parts, and enabling it to export waste for recycling. The …
The Environmental Protection Ministry intends to demand compensation of 111 million shekels ($28.8 million) from the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company for the damage caused to the Evrona Nature Reserve as a result of the oil spill there in December. Most of the payment is for damage to the ecological system …
Israeli entrepreneurs Ran Korber, Emil Fisher, and Ziv Lautman are to be honored at the White House Monday, when they will be lauded for their technology’s contribution to improving the human condition. The entrepreneurs’ BreezeoMeter app caught the White House’s attention, said Lautman, because “air pollution is at the front …
Despite the bright blue, sunny skies that much of Israel woke up to on Thursday morning, a fog of air pollution blanketed the country as a result of the previous night’s Lag Ba’omer bonfires. Although the pollution concentrations peaked between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and 4:30 a.m. Thursday at most Environmental …
Israel's state comptroller’s office found that the Environmental Protection Ministry failed in its monitoring of industrial pollution. According to the comptroller’s report released on Tuesday, the ministry rarely uses the legal means at its disposal to enforce compliance with anti-pollution laws. The findings deal with industries including those in the …
Air pollution in Haifa is no worse than in other urban areas in Israel, Environmental Protection Ministry director general David Leffler said yesterday, adding that his ministry will be working with the Health Ministry to establish a task force to reduce pollution in the bayside city. The ministry’s handling of …
As existing data resurfaced in recent days potentially linking increased cancer incidence in the Haifa Bay to air pollution, Environmental Protection Ministry professionals said on Wednesday that they will recommend that their new minister declare the area “an air-pollution- stricken region.” “Despite the significant decrease in air pollution and the …
Israelis produced hundreds – or perhaps even thousands – of tons of trash over Passover, with some 550 tons collected in Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund forests and parks alone, the organization reported on Sunday. The 550 tons include garbage disposed of properly in organized bins, as well as trash …
Annual rainfall levels in Israel have not changed drastically over the last 90 years, but temperatures have seen a sharp increase over the last two decades, according to a climate change report published last week by the Israel Meteorological Service. The new analysis updates a report published by the IMS …
Aiming to determine whether there is a link between air pollution and morbidity in the Haifa Bay region, academics from Israel and around the world launched a project on Tuesday that will study these questions for the next five years. Sponsored by the Haifa District Municipal Association for Environmental Protection, …
The Health Ministry, a participant in the new study, has already called for tougher limits on emissions in advance of a new plan to increase Haifa Bay fuel production. An epidemiological study focusing on the connection between the high incidence of disease in Haifa Bay and the level of air …
Imposing a prison sentence for environmental infractions is a rare event in Israel, but it happened recently. A District Court rejected an appeal by a person convicted of running an unauthorized waste disposal site, and the offenders were ordered to pay over 1 million shekels in fines. Brothers Tziki and …
JERUSALEM – Israel will double the amount of water provided to the Gaza Strip, despite a bloody war last summer against the territory’s Hamas rulers, defense officials said Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the commander of Cogat, the defense agency that deals with Gazan civilian affairs, said in published remarks …
Jordan and Israel signed an agreement to go ahead with a World Bank-sponsored project to build a desalination plant in the Gulf of Aqaba and a pipeline linking the Red Sea with the Dead Sea. The plant will be built in the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on the Red …
