Hand-washing Heroes

Water Alliance, a local nonprofit association, has been quietly rolling out a community mobilization effort to tackle both poor hand hygiene and lack of water conservation at the same time.  The idea came about during the COVID-19 lockdown as the team noticed hand washing videos showing the tap running for the entire washing up time. […]


Three Consumer Habits for Making a Meaningful Change in the Covid-19 World

By Dr. Mari Luomi   We must seize this historic opportunity to fulfil our generational responsibility to create a better, cleaner and greener future. While governments and businesses also need to act, individual choices matter. There are three green, high-impact lifestyle changes that many of us have already embarked on without noticing. Going forward, we […]


Mohammad Bin Rashid Solar Park Phase 3 Inauguration

The Mohammad Bin Rashid Solar Park, the largest single-site solar park in the world, will have a capacity of 5 GW to be fully operational by 2030. With phases 1 and 2 are already online, phase 3 was inaugurated in November 2020. To reflect on its 3rd phase of 800 MW, MESIA had the pleasure […]


Supply Chains Share Lessons Learned From UAE-led Global COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

Senior figures from the UAE’s supply chain and logistics sectors shared their insights into how the country is leading the way in the distribution of billions of covid-19 vaccines across the globe in a recent webinar organised by Messe Frankfurt Middle East. The Vaccine Logistics Alliance (VLA) and the Hope Consortium are two UAE-based groups […]


Net-Zero Cities: Goals and Solutions

By: Dr Samar Hamad The rapid increase in global temperature has received great attention owing to its relation to climate change. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the average temperature of Earth’s surface has significantly increased by 0.6 to 0.9°C over the past century with higher rates in the past 50 years. […]


MESIA Solar Awards’ 9th Edition

Venue: The Address Beach Hotel and Resort, Dubai Date and Time: Tuesday 25th May, 2021, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Focusing on all areas of the solar industry, MESIA will distinguish and award good practice, professionalism, quality, safety and innovation, with the aim of being a marker of the brightest and best that Middle East […]


Trina Solar Vertex modules take Middle East solar market into the era of 500W+ output

Dubai, UAE: April 7, 2020 – Trina Solar Co., Ltd (“Trina Solar” or the “Company”) has announced that it has signed a sales agreement with the Yemeni photovoltaic firm Ai Raebi, to supply 6MW of Vertex series modules to high-efficiency distributed PV projects in the Middle East.   The acquisition of the order signals the […]


UAE Launched its First Mission to Mars

This morning, Monday 20 July 2020 at 1:58am local time, the rocket carrying Amal, the Hope Probe, to space took off from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan to the first-ever Arabic countdown for a rocket. The probe successfully detached from the rocket an hour later as the Mission Control room applauded and the UAE […]


Spinneys Launches Incubator for Micro F&B Suppliers in UAE

Locally-owned supermarket Spinneys today launched its incubator programme for micro food and beverage suppliers in the UAE. As part of its corporate sustainability initiative Let’s Do Better Together, the initiative aims to fast-track supermarket listings for innovative F&B businesses in a bid to support local food production and stimulate economic growth in the sector. Committed […]


Unlocking the Full Potential of Circular Economy

By Massimo Cannizzo, CEO and Co-founder of GELLIFY Middle East    A worrying 2.12 billion tons of waste is what we produce every year, partly because we only use 1% of what we buy and the other 99% is trashed within 6 months . The global waste is projected to pile up by 70% in […]