emissions
Green Funding for Reshaping the Energy Sector
The Dubai Green Fund , with the goal of transforming Dubai with the least carbon footprint, has already raised AED 2.4 billion through an agreement with National Bonds. In 2015, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, […]
EGA Champions the Environment – MD & CEO HE Abdulla Kalban
How does Emirates Global Aluminium define sustainable development? The principles of sustainability are embedded in everything we do at EGA. We are a strong supporter of the UAE Vision to ‘ensure sustainable development while preserving the environment, and to achieve a perfect balance between economic and social development’. Sustainable development has been defined by the […]
A Vehicle for Everything
Integrated energy company ENGIE partnered with Hitachi Europe Ltd. and Mitsubishi Motors to explore the potential of electric vehicles for the optimisation of building and grid energy management For this collaboration, Hitachi provided its V2X charger, which enabled bi-directional charging between the electric car battery and the building or electricity grid. It is also supplied […]
Glass Point Builds 36 Block Solar Plant In Oman
Solar steam experts, GlassPoint, and oil company Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), have completed four blocks of the Miraah solar plant safely on time and on budget. The facility is exporting solar steam daily to the Amal oilfield, helping to sustainably produce Oman’s heavy and viscous oil, according to GlassPoint. The four blocks have a total […]
RAK Tourism
With Ras Al Khaimah’s Destination 2019 strategy declaring a vision to be a sustainable and competitive tourism destination, it’s understandable sustainable tourism is a major focus for the emirate in coming years and, as such, much is in place to turn this vision into reality. “By identifying sustainable tourism as a major pillar of Ras […]
Airlines
Think of carbon footprints and chances are, you’ll think of air travel. Hardly one of the most environmentally friendly ways to travel, flying has come in for its fair share of criticism in the past few years. But are airlines working towards making air travel more sustainable? Here in the Middle East region, it appears […]
Sticking To Sustainability
Henkel operates 171 production sites worldwide. We work continuously at all of these sites to reduce our environmental footprint while maintaining high quality and safety standards. We have set concrete targets for our production sites to maximise our impact and help steer progress toward our long-term goal to become three times more efficient by 2030 […]
Sustainability; From Cow To Cup
In 2016 Arla produced 13.9 bn kg of milk “We need to deliver food in a much more sustainable way, if we as a food company do not work with sustainability, it will be a mess.” Ann-Camilla Kjaempe, Category Director at Arla Foods Global dairy product behemoth, Arla Foods is a Europe-wide co-operative owned and […]
Smelting for sustainability/ Sustainbility smelting pot
How does Emirates Global Aluminium define sustainable development? The principles of sustainability are embedded in everything we do at EGA. We are a strong supporter of the UAE Vision to ‘ensure sustainable development while preserving the environment, and to achieve a perfect balance between economic and social development’. Sustainable development has been defined by the […]
