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Carboun

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Waste/Recycling/Environmental

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 initiative's name, Carboun, is a transliteration of the Arabic pronunciation of the element Carbon, the most elemental constituent of life, the source of our energy, and more recently, the main driving factor behind our planet's climate change.Carboun's website provides an online journal for sharing information relating to urban sustainability in the cities of the Middle East and North Africa region covering a range of urban systems and components including energy use, water use, sustainable design and urbanism, transportation, carbon emissions, climate change resilience, material resources, waste, and urban environment.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.The Carboun initiative was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009. Carboun is a member organization in Climate Action Network International (CAN International).