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Filling the Gaps Proposed Review to Improve Qatar Environmental Law
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IISTE
, 2019 , Article)
Qatar is a pleasant Arab country in the Middle East with high regional and international profiles. It is a small country in terms of geography and demography and has a relatively modern legal system. The legislative power ...
Governing Artificial Intelligence to benefit the UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Wiley
, 2020 , Article)
Big Tech's unregulated roll-out out of experimental AI poses risks to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with particular vulnerability for developing countries. The goal of financial inclusion ...
Tracing Environmental Law Principles within the Qatari Legal System
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BJHSS
, 2017 , Article)
In the era of environmental revolution, law becomes relevant. The last few decades witnessed huge environmental concerns, at a global level, international conferences, declarations, and international treaties has been ...
Draft legal framework for shared water resources in the Arab World: is it really needed?
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Routledge
, 2021 , Article)
Attempts to establish a regional water convention covering shared water resources in the Arab world have been ongoing for more than a decade. During this time, a Draft Arab Water Convention has been proposed, and the content ...
A Sandbox Approach to Regulating High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Applications
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Cambridge University Press
, 2021 , Article)
This paper argues for a sandbox approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to complement a strict liability regime. The authors argue that sandbox regulation is an appropriate complement to a strict liability ...
The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law. Edited by CINNAMON P CARLARNE, KEVIN R GRAY and RICHARD TARASOFSKY
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Oxford University Press
, 2017 , Article)
The urgency of climate change necessitates considering what types of governance options are available when the existing approaches are failing.1
The United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s ...
Governance in the era of Blockchain technology in Qatar: a roadmap and a manual for Trade Finance
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2021 , Article)
Nations worldwide have sought to capitalize on the benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) including Blockchain, but struggled to strike a balance between encouraging investment and innovation in the technology ...
Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism
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Oxford Academic
, 2015 , Article)
Chinese and Emirati purchases of US companies have collapsed because of suspicions that their Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) status is a disguise for political ambitions. SWFs have grown in size and number, drawing the attention ...
Maritime Emissions Taxation: An Alternative to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
(2014 , Article)
The advent of the eighteenth session of the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Conference of the Parties (COP18)1 internationalized a new sense
of urgency2 towards preventing the planet ...
Achieving Green Building in Qatar through Legal and Fiscal Tools
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Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)
, 2019 , Article)
This article considers how the advancement of green building can provide multiple dividends in Qatar by enabling reduced resource consumption and producing less waste. LEED® certified “green” buildings consume between 10% ...