This report reviews the state of the solar industry across the Middle East and North Africa, focusing on market growth, falling costs, project pipelines, storage, green hydrogen, and country-level solar development. It presents solar as an increasingly competitive and resilient technology despite the disruptions caused by COVID-19 and lower oil prices, while highlighting the policy, financial, and technical conditions shaping the region’s next phase of solar expansion.
This report examines the expanding role of artificial intelligence across major infrastructure and sustainability sectors, including energy, water, waste management, smart cities, and climate and environment. It presents AI as a foundational enabler of digital transformation, operational efficiency, predictive decision-making, and large-scale system optimization, with particular relevance for the GCC and wider MENA region.
This report examines how global water sector trends are influencing the GCC market, with a particular focus on digital transformation, non-revenue water reduction, operational efficiency, and wastewater reuse. It highlights the region’s infrastructure challenges, policy drivers, and technology opportunities across smart metering, analytics, sensors, leak detection, and water recycling systems.
This report outlines the major trends shaping clean energy globally and across the GCC, focusing on decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization. It examines the growth of renewables in the region, the rise of distributed energy models, and the commercial opportunities emerging across storage, digital grids, hybrid systems, and related low-carbon technologies.
This report outlines the major trends shaping clean energy globally and across the GCC, focusing on decentralization, decarbonization, and digitalization. It examines the growth of renewables in the region, the rise of distributed energy models, and the commercial opportunities emerging across storage, digital grids, hybrid systems, and related low-carbon technologies.
This report analyzes the growing water security challenges in the Middle East and outlines key opportunities across desalination, wastewater treatment, and digital water management. It highlights climate-driven risks, infrastructure gaps, and investment priorities shaping the region’s transition toward resilient and sustainable water systems.
This report examines how the evolution of the energy sector is creating economic impact at both global and GCC levels. It analyzes the shift toward lower-carbon power generation, the role of decentralisation, decarbonisation, and digitalisation, and the socio-economic effects of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and hydrogen investments on jobs, GDP, industrial development, and long-term economic diversification.
This report reviews the main developments shaping the solar sector across the Middle East and North Africa, combining market updates, technology analysis, and country-level progress. It examines renewable investment trends, PV module innovation, distributed solar, digital energy management, green hydrogen, storage, and the outlook for leading solar markets across the region.
Green and Sustainable Synthesis of Iron Oxide-Based Nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications, 2026, Pages 283-310
The phenomenon of rapid industrialization and the subsequent rise in energy consumption have led to the exploitation of natural resources, specifically fossil fuels, for the purpose of power generation. The observed phenomenon leads to introduction a substantial quantity of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas into the surrounding environment. The effects of CO2 emissions are one of today’s most pressing problems for society. In this context, there has been a lot of interest in the most recent advancement made in a comprehensive CO2 capture strategy. There are many different methods for separating and capturing CO2, including liquid absorption, adsorption on solid surfaces, chemical looping, gas phase separation, and hybrid processes like adsorption-membrane systems. Due to CO2 relatively stable dynamic state, interacting with other substances is complex. Therefore, it is necessary to create specific catalysts that can dissolve the CO2 bond and be used as a feedstock to create highly economical materials. Recently, there has been a lot of interest in using metal oxide-based processes to convert CO2 into other compounds. Metal oxides are essential to CO2 hydrogenation because they offer extra benefits like selectivity and energy efficiency. This book chapter focuses on iron oxide based materials and their utilization in the context of CO2 capture applications. Here, a curated literature review on iron oxide-based materials for CO2 capture application has been presented, and the various strategies used by scientists and industry to reestablish the equilibrium of CO2 in the environment have been analyzed.
