Spinneys Launches ‘Power of Plants’ Initiative

Locally-owned supermarket Spinneys has launched its ‘Power of Plants’ initiative in the UAE. As part of its corporate sustainability programme ‘Let’s Do Better Together’, the campaign aims to inspire customers to enjoy a more sustainable diet and healthy lifestyle by shopping plant-based products.   With big plans for 2021, including the official launch of its […]


BALLY Announces New Mountain Preservation Effort And A Dedicated Peak Outlook Foundation

24 March – The Swiss luxury brand returns to Mount Everest sponsoring community-led clean-ups throughout the Himalayas and beyond BALLY reinforces its mountain preservation agenda in 2020, following the milestone commitments set with the launch of its Peak Outlook initiative in Spring last year, which included the first-ever clean-up expedition of Mount Everest from base […]


MBRSC Releases 0.7 Meter Satellite Image “Mosaic” captured by KhalifaSat

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the completion of an updated map of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai using the UAE’s first high-resolution satellite image “Mosaic”, captured by KhalifaSat. The system captures a matrix of individual digital images to create a single high-resolution picture of the UAE’s terrain. This imaging system by […]


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Sustaining Tourism Responsibly with HE Helal Saeed Al Marri

1. How did the UAE begin its journey towards sustainable tourism? What success has been seen so far? Sustainability has undoubtedly been a key priority for the UAE government for many years, with the UAE actively working to enhance its role among leading nations in the field of sustainability, and to bolster its position as […]


Every drop counts

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 […]


UPS’s Electric Quadricycle “eQuad”

Reaffirming its commitment to industry-leading, sustainable city logistics solutions, UPS received the company’s newly updated eQuad, a four-wheeled e-assist quadricycle, in the UAE. The eQuad has been built in partnership with Fernhay, a UK-based manufacturing and design company committed to creating zero-emission products for logistics deliveries. Luke Wake, vice president of maintenance and engineering, UPS, […]


The American School of Dubai’s Leadership in Sustainability

By Laurence Myers, K-12 Service Learning Coordinator, American School of Dubai   On February 2, 2019 the Gulf News ran an article named Why this school was awarded a coveted $ 100,000 prize highlighting the American School of Dubai’s being awarded the Zayed Sustainability Prize (ZSP). To the UAE community this was, perhaps, the first […]


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 […]


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, […]