Mohammed Isa Al Abbasi 
Reading the materials of some newspapers on Thursday we start from the “Moroccan events”, which published that Morocco intends to impose a carbon tax starting in January 2026, which has become a vital topic under the draft framework on taxes. This procedure aims to encourage companies to adopt clean energy and environmental protection options.
Renewable energy is the way to reduce carbon emissions in Morocco, where a national plan for priority has been launched to provide a balance between supply and demand for electricity; By enhancing the production capacity with an increase of 1400 megawatts, in addition to rationalizing energy use. Renewable energy projects were also enabled through a legislative framework that allows the private sector to enter the electricity production and marketing market from renewable sources.
In another news, it came within the articles of the newspaper itself that statistical data for the water basin agency for Umm al -Rabi` reported that the water police of its water recorded important developments, whether in terms of the number of seized violations or in terms of the income of fines during the year 2024.
The “Moroccan events” added that the number of violations recorded in 2024, according to the same source, reached about 609 violations, compared to 416 violations in 2023; While the annual rate during the period between 2018 and 2022 was only about 295 violations, this indicates an improvement in monitoring and intensifying efforts to control the violators.
As for the “evening”, it was reported that the Moroccan Association for Human Rights – Al -Manara Branch Marrakesh called for an investigation into the imbalances in the wholesale fish market in the red city, where the lack of the most basic services and logistical means to work inside the market and the spread of chaos caused by the improvisation of opening and closing the market doors in the morning according to the mood of private security before the employees joined and market management.
On the other hand, the same newspaper stated that the high prices of various types of vegetables during the month of Ramadan raised a lot of controversy among the citizens, so that the price of some types of vegetables, such as pepper, for example, reached the amount of 25 dirhams per kilogram, while the price of tomatoes remained stable between 10 dirhams and 12 dirhams, while on the price of onions, it remained fixed between 8 and 10 dirhams per kilogram. The prices of the rest of the other vegetables remained fiery.
According to “Al -Masaa”, the intensity of the prices of vegetables during the current month of Ramadan exceeded all standards and expectations, at a time when the purchasing power of the Moroccan citizen was affected, and the latter became unable to bear the burdens of the huge rise in the price of the vegetables and the rest of the other necessary materials in daily life.
“Evening” also stated that the twos and sellers of meat in bulk and installments in Meknes warned, in a letter addressed to the worker, which they called the phenomenon of opening meat shops in installments without licenses, noting that this phenomenon has become rapidly spread in the center of the Ismailia city without any interference by the authorities concerned.
According to the professionals, the health of the consumer has become in danger and is subject to harm, given that the stores concerned operate outside the monitoring by the veterinary and health interests as they are not available on licenses.
And to the “science” that published that Morocco ranked 31st in the world among the most importing weapons in the world in the last four years (2015 to 2024); While his eastern neighbor, Algeria ranked 21st in the same period, according to a report issued by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
The news added that the report revealed, in return, a decrease in Morocco’s import of weapons by 26 percent compared to the period between 2015 and 2019; What made Morocco get 0.7 percent of the various weapons exported across the world, highlighting that the United States, followed by France, tops the arms suppliers list for the Kingdom.
According to “Al -Alam”, the specialized institute revealed that the imports of Moroccan weapons witnessed a huge increase between 2005 and 2014, where it doubled ten times by more than 1164 percent, before taking a declining approach with expectations that the import level will rise again in the future based on military deals that have not yet been implemented.
