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Tadweer Opens Expanded Used Tire Recycling Facility
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) announced the opening of its expanded used tire recycling facility in Abu Dhabi. Run in strategic partnership with the private sector, the facility aims to ensure the safe disposal of used tires to avoid public health and environmental risks. To ensure the facility’s success, Tadweer has contracted with Tarheel […]
Sustainability-Focused Building for Greater Wellness
By Francis Alfred, Managing Director and CEO of Sobha Realty We are nearing the end of what will be a year to remember; a year where everything else was overlaid by the unpleasant pandemic. Recently, amidst all these COVID-19 conversations there was a brief respite as we remembered another threat to our planet – climate […]
UAE’s The Storey Group Launches One Billion Trees Initiative
The UAE’s The Storey Group (TSG) has launched an ambitious initiative to encourage the Emirates’ residents and corporates to come together to help plant one billion trees globally by 2026 in a transformational project designed to help offset the country’s carbon emissions. OBTI enables people to buy or gift trees, with each tree delivering […]
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 […]
SWS Industries Is Now Using Solar Energy At Their Facility
SWS Industries is proud to mark its three-month anniversary since Total Solar Distributed Generation (DG) Middle East powered a 0.55 megawatt-peak (MWp) solar photovoltaic (PV) rooftop at their facility in Dubai. Operating since 2004 in the United Arab Emirates, SWS Industries became a valued business in the industry specializing in innovative solutions for action sports […]
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 […]
Bee’ah with Region’s First Solar Light Show
Bee’ah, the Middle East’s award-winning sustainability pioneer, celebrated the 49th UAE National Day and paid tribute to the seven emirates of the country with a stunning solar-powered light show, a first for the region, at its new headquarters. Bee’ah’s Headquarters, set to launch in 2021 as one of the world’s greenest and smartest AI-integrated office […]
Tadweer Environmental Awareness Drive Delivers
Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer) revealed that its awareness activities and campaigns in 2020 delivered significant results in promoting environmental awareness across Abu Dhabi Emirate despite the unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic to its operations. “Tadweer’s awareness efforts articulate the Center’s strategic objective of providing the highest health environmental safety standards to […]
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment Inaugurates National Air Quality Platform
Ministry introduces initiative in collaboration with National Center of Meteorology, Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, Environment and Protected Areas Authority in Sharjah Launch coincides with International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies Abu Dhabi-UAE: 7 September, 2020 – His Excellency Dr Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, today attended the […]
‘Earth Day is a symbol of cooperation among all segments of the community towards the common objective of preserving the environment’
His Excellency Mohamed Bin Jarsh Al Falasi, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE), asserted that Earth Day is a special occasion and a symbol of cooperation among all segments of the community towards the common objective of preserving the environment. It is an opportunity to promote positive behaviour that helps ensure the […]
