Carboun: Middle East Sustainable Cities
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Carboun: Middle East Sustainable Cities
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Non-profit
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Urban sustainability Energy use Water use Sustainable design Urbanism Transportation Carbon emissions Climate change resilience Material resources Waste Urban environment Climate change Sustainable development
Description/notes
Carboun is a non-profit volunteer-based advocacy initiative promoting sustainable cities in the Middle East and North Africa region. Carboun focuses on the built environment and urban systems of regional cities, and advocates a sustainable approach for their development that balances economic development and a reduced impact on resources, and the environment. It also advocates leveraging urban resilience as a tool for long term urban sustainability.
Carboun’s geographical scope focuses on the economic, environmental, and developmental conditions predominant in the countries of the wider Middle East and North Africa, including the Arab World, Iran and Turkey.
The Carboun initiative is engaged in a number of regional projects relating to sustainability in cities. The initiative’s current projects cover energy use in buildings, carbon emissions, and impact of climate change on the region. Carboun is also engaged in a number of national-level projects.
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Member organisation of the Climate Action Network Regional Node CAN Arab World (CANAW)
Energy use Water use Sustainable design Urbanism Transportation Carbon emissions Climate change resilience Material resources Waste Urban environment Climate change
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