(MENAFN- Dubai PR Network) Libyan National Oil Company Unveils 'Think Tomorrow' Sustainability Strategy at COP28The Libyan National Oil Corporation (LNOC) proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking sustainability strategy, 'Think Tomorrow,' marking a pivotal moment in the company's commitment to sustainable development, environmental stewardship, and diversified energy sources in Libya. Addressing Waste Oil and Water SustainablyLNOC takes an active role in remediating waste oil and water in Libya, forging partnerships with recovery and sustainable energy companies. Additionally, LNOC aims for swift integration through initiatives promoting energy efficiency, advocating for increased adoption of renewable energy, and establishing investor programs. Sustainable Agricultural InitiativesAs part of LNOC's environmental commitment, the corporation plans to plant one million trees between 2023 and 2025. The Libyan National Oil Corporation (LNOC) stands unwaveringly dedicated to responsible business practices, upholding the most stringent international standards of ESG principles.

Libyan Prime Minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, met with the Russian ambassador to Libya, Aydar Aganin, in Tripoli today for talks on economic cooperation. According to a statement by Dbeibeh’s media office, the Russian ambassador “confirmed the return of the Russian embassy to operate in Tripoli with all its staff”, and also underlined “Russia’s desire for economic and academic cooperation between the public and private sectors of the two countries”. The ambassador expressed his support for “the efforts of the UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, to hold elections according to fair laws”.

The movie industry received assistance from an unlikely source in 2023, with a significant box-office boost coming from the music industry. Concert films dominated much of the theater fare, especially during the latter part of the year. The tally secures the film's place as the highest-grossing concert movie ever made. With concert films likely to become a key part of documenting the musical experience, filmmakers want to ensure the event is captured in all its detail. The increasing use of LED displays in concert performances adds a stunning new component to concert visuals, but when it comes to filming those performances the use of LED displays can present a challenge.

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Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced plans to increase oil production by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2024, up from current levels of approximately 1.2 million bpd. The increase aligns with the country’s efforts to produce two million bpd in the next two to five years. The NOC announced that it is on track to meet this target, with two bidding rounds on the cards for next year. NOC Chairman, Farhat Bengdara, stated during the COP28 summit earlier this week: “We see a lot of interest. I can’t name names, but American companies, European companies and companies from the far East [are interested].”Bengdara added that the production target positions the country to be able to replace crude supplies that it imports from other parts of the world.

The UN envoy to Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, met with a delegation from the “High National Council for Libyan Women,” as part of the consultations he is conducting with a number of components of Libyan society, in addition to what he described as his quest to bridge the gap between political rivals in order to reach a political solution. “As part of my ongoing consultations with a wide range of Libyan constituencies, and in parallel with my efforts to bring the major political stakeholders together, I met today with members of the High National Council for Libyan Women, led by Mrs. Laila Sawesi,” Bathily tweeted on Wednesday. “The participants deplored the lack of women’s representation at all levels and called for meaningful political participation. They also welcomed my call for a dialogue between the main actors and promised to share a written contribution on the way to end the political stalemate,” he added. “I urged the political leaders to create enabling conditions for Libyans to elect legitimate and accountable institutions.

The President of the General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, Mohamed Al-Raied, held a meeting Sunday with the President of the Agricultural and Livestock Projects Development and Investment Authority, Ahmed Abu Zaid. Need to develop an agricultural investment strategyAt the end of the meeting, it was agreed that a strategy for agricultural investment in Libya needed to be developed. This strategy would be based on the exchange of ideas, scientific expertise, technical and administrative consultations. Need for international collaborationIt was also decided that the Agricultural Investment Authority needed to be linked with other countries to open areas of investment and marketing with countries around the world. This policy includes the reactivation of the state agricultural projects, most of which lie in the south, after neglect as a result of the disintegration of the state post the 2011 revolution that overthrew the Qaddafi regime.

The Attorney General’s Office announced on Wednesday that three members of a gang were arrested, pending trial, accused of attempting to defraud Jumhuria bank of LD 40 million. The gang had conspired to use fake cheques in its attempt to defraud a public company, but did not complete their criminal endeavour. Other members of the gang are being pursued. The Attorney General’s Office also confirmed that after initial questioning, members of the Tripoli Tower Jumhuria bank branch were released without charge.

- Advertisement -A Ghanaian man now based in Italy has shared his experience in the Libyan desert in search of greener pastures in Europe. According to the man identified as Tony Owusu, he left Ghana in 2014 in a bid to search for greener pastures outside the country and decided to visit Libya. Despite having a passport, the connection man got him fake papers so he could travel in trucks loaded with goods and that could get him to his destination. He continued that the journey by road to Libya wasn’t easy as they were met with various challenges including a shortage of food and water, as well as, the scorching heat from the sun. Watch the video below:He added that he had never seen good drivers like the ones in the desert helping people to enter Libya.

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UNESCO recognises Garba as humanity’s cultural heritage“Over the decades Garba has been an integral, multivalent component of Gujarati culture in India and among the Indian diaspora across the globe”, it said. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took the decision on Wednesday at its meeting in Kasane, Botswana to inscribe Garba on its ICHH list. “Intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity in the face of growing globalisation” and an understanding of it from different communities helps intercultural dialogue and mutual respect for other ways of life, UNESCO said. Garba is performed during nine days of the Navaratri festival that is dedicated to the worship of the feminine energy or Shakti, UNESCO said. The “visual expressions of this feminine energy are expressed through the Garba dance”, it added.

(Beirut) – An independent inquiry is needed to review failings in Libyan authorities’ management of catastrophic flooding in eastern Libya in September 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. With the conclusion of the mandate of the United Nations Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya in March, no international investigative mechanism is functioning for Libya. Storm Daniel reached Libya on September 9, causing severe flooding the next day after two dams upstream from Derna collapsed. At 1:12 a.m., the Water Resources Ministry reassured residents under curfew that all dams in Derna had been inspected and were in good condition. Reconstruction and compensation efforts for those affected by the storm have been complicated by deep political divisions between the two governments, both of which established reconstruction funds for Derna and eastern Libya.

The Attorney General’s Office announced Sunday that four foreigners and a Libyan have been arrested for illegal gold prospecting in southern Libya. The four foreigners, from Niger, Chad and China, were also accused of illegally entering and residing in Libyan territory.

Swiss federal authorities indicated on Tuesday that they had returned to Libya a marble head of a young woman from the Hellenistic period, around 2,000 years old, discovered ten years ago in a warehouse in Geneva. It is an "archaeological vestige of great value" and an "exceptional testimony to Hellenistic expansion in North Africa ", according to a press release from the Federal Office of Culture. The sculpture was discovered in 2013 as part of an inspection in a customs warehouse in Geneva and was handed over to Bern on Tuesday by the director of the Federal Office of Culture at the Libyan embassy in Switzerland. Three years after its discovery, the Geneva public prosecutor's office decided to initiate proceedings, considering that the sculpture could have been found during "illicit excavations". However, the criminal proceedings did not make it possible to determine the precise place where the sculpture was discovered or how it arrived in Switzerland.

A total 145 irregular Bangladeshi citizens have returned home from Libya. A chartered flight of Buraq Air carrying them landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Wednesday morning. Officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) welcomed them. The IOM gave each of them pocket money of Tk 6500 and some food items. The process of repatriating Bangladeshis trapped in Libya is ongoing with the efforts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Bangladesh Embassy, Tripoli and with the financial support of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).