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Building the Cities of Tomorrow
Upgrades to our urban centres, and the creation of brand-new smart cities, are the key to sustainable growth in the region By H.E. Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO of Bee’ah Sharjah, UAE, March 3, 2020 The term ‘smart city’ is used a lot these days and for good reason. Here in the Middle […]
TRSDC to Deliver Saudi’s First Underwater Excavation on Red Sea Coast
The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer behind the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism project, has partnered with the Ministry of Culture to unite efforts in the fields of archaeology, heritage, history and sustainable tourism along Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. Among the agreements signed was a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Heritage […]
BCG Finds More UAE Consumers Willing To Go Green
With less than 250 days to the start of EXPO 2020 public awareness concerning the mounting challenges stemming from global warming is reassuringly high in the UAE as the government, organizations, and civil society continue to play their part in embracing environmental sustainability initiatives. Despite significant efforts by all those involved consumers still face obstacles […]
GEMS Education Pupils’ Fight Against Climate Change
From United Nations-certified Climate Change Teachers and energy-efficiency programmes, to organic farming, hydroponics, recycling and zero-waste campaigns, the sustainability practices and initiatives in place across GEMS Education schools in the UAE are driving positive action and change within communities and contributing to the fight against climate change. The urgent need to protect the environment and […]
Environmental Conservation an Increasing Concern for UAE Residents Ahead of World Environment Day
UAE consumers are growing increasingly interested in environmental conservation issues, especially in regards to ‘plastics in the ocean’ and ‘recycling’, which top associated online searches by the country’s residents ahead of World Environment Day (05 June), according to back-search data collected by SEMrush, the award-winning digital marketing suite. The UAE’s most searched environmental-related term between […]
20by2020 by the Zayed Sustainability Prize
Initiative Overview Since its launch in December 2019, 20by2020; a UAE-driven humanitarian initiative, led by the Zayed Sustainability Prize in partnership with Abu Dhabi Global Market, Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, Mubadala Petroleum, Year of Tolerance and Masdar, has successfully impacted the lives of thousands of people in various last mile and vulnerable communities around […]
Creating Sustainable, Liveable, and Resilient Communities
Dubai, March 19 By: Dr Samar Hamad The concepts of sustainability, liveability, and resilience are key to building better communities. Many times, these terms tend to be used interchangeably, as they all involve policies and planning objectives that are supposed to provide good quality of life for communities. However, each one of these concepts […]
A Global Centre For Clean Energy And Green Economy
`Dubai is moving forward in the fields of renewable energy, sustainability and the environment and enhancing its efficiency. The Supreme Council of Energy has set a strategy to reduce carbon emissions by 16%, equivalent to reducing 11 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2021. HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime […]
ekar Integrates with CarPro to Tech-Enable 500,000 Rental Cars
ekar, the Middle East’s first and largest personal mobility company, has integrated with CarPro, a state-of-the-art car rental fleet management platform, enabling car rental and leasing companies with over 500,000 rental cars to digitally rent cars via the ekar platform. CarPro will integrate ekar’s Mobility OS natively within its fleet management software, allowing car rental […]
This Too Shall Pass
By Mohamed Elimam It has been 8 weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The emotional roller-coaster is becoming stronger, but has gotten in a recognizable pattern. On one hand, the new peak frequency of news of companies undergoing mass lay-off exercises is nerve wrecking. The longingness to our […]
