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By Ayesha Al Marzooqi, Assistant Manager, Sustainability and Innovation – Sustainability, Expo 2020 Dubai Sustainability isn’t a new concept in the UAE – Expo 2020 Dubai adopted Sustainability as a key subtheme with respect to our ancestors who lived in the harsh desert by taking from the land and sea only what they needed […]
TRSDC Partners with Blue Planet Ecosystems for Sustainable Fish Pilot Scheme
The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer behind the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism project, has signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with Blue Planet Ecosystems (BPE). Signed by John Pagano, CEO of TRSDC and Paul Schmitzberger, CEO of BPE, the first MoU sees the entities pledging to investigate the implementation of a viable […]
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 […]
COVID19 : The Earth’s Breather
By Shubhangi Patil, Intern MBBS at DY Patil Hospital & Research Institute In all these years , the world never seen such a bad thing happen; for our daily lives and economies took a backseat. All busy shores were cleared , people trying to accept this phase and normalising. Where even the holiest sites […]
Sheikh Zayed Falcon Release Programme Marks its 25th Year with a New Milestone
Despite the current challenges posed by the global pandemic, 76 falcons have been released into the wild this year as part of the Sheikh Zayed Falcon Release Programme (SZFRP), taking the total to more than 2,000 since the programme first launched in 1995. Following the success of 11 releases in Kazakhstan in previous years, the […]
Youngest Emirati inventor congratulates UAE students at Taqeef’s STEM learning programme finale
Inventive pupils from seven UAE schools received a special and inspiring note of recognition recently at a virtual celebration ceremony to mark their participation in iMatter – a STEM learning programme by Taqeef, the Middle East’s leading air conditioning solutions provider. Fatima Al Kaabi, the country’s youngest Emirati inventor and Pioneers of the UAE awardee, […]
Emirates Steel a Key Partner for the UAE’s Peaceful Nuclear Energy Programme
Emirates Steel worked with ENEC for the ten-year construction period of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant Company supplied 60% of project’s rebar requirements A major achievement in meeting stringent global nuclear energy construction standards Abu Dhabi-UAE: 9 September 2020 – Emirates Steel, the leading integrated steel plant in the UAE, has proudly announced its contribution […]
Two Sides of the Coin
Bitcoin trading per day is using 0.17% of the worlds daily electricity consumption, according to an index by Digiconomist. With Bitcoin prices the way they are currently, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn around 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to mine more Bitcoins, according to Digiconomist. That electricity consumption […]
The Link Between Spirituality and Good Business Practices
By Niranjan Gidwani, Independent Consultant Director and Former CEO Of Eros Group More and more people today are finding that there’s more to life—and business—than profits alone. Money as the single and only bottom line is increasingly becoming a thing of the past. In a world of massive corporate frauds, values and ethics are […]
Farnek’s Vertical Rooftop Garden Comes to Life
Leading UAE-based smart and green facilities management (FM) company Farnek, in partnership with Dutch green-tech projects specialist developer Urban Ponics, has created a 240sqm vertical rooftop garden at Farnek’s brand new staff accommodation centre in Dubai South – Farnek Village. Farnek arranged for a team of experts from Urban Ponics in the Netherlands to fly […]
