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The Future of Payments
The Sustainabilist spoke with Senior VP at IDEMIA MEA, Julia Schoonenberg, on the prospects of future payments and how the pandemic may have acted as a catalyst in reaching the current level of adoption of novel transaction modes. In her current role, Julia leads the Financial Institutions business for Middle East & Africa region at […]
UAE Mission and IRENA to co-host inaugural “Renewables Talks” to address industry’s greatest challenges
The UAE Mission to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and IRENA will co-host the Agency’s Members for the first of its quarterly “Renewables Talks” on 13 May 2020, in a virtual webinar. Set to be hosted every three months throughout the year, the first Renewables Talks will assemble IRENA’s Permanent Representatives and the broader […]
Youth 4 Sustainability Opens Registrations for Virtual Forum
Masdar, one of the world’s leading clean energy companies and host of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), has announced the opening of registrations for the Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) Virtual Forum, a series of youth-led discussions taking place over three days, Monday, January 18, Wednesday, January 20 and Thursday, January 21, 2021. Throughout the […]
Academia and Industry Join Forces to Diversify Fuel Sources
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Dubai has joined forces with Saudi-based engineering group, Jubail Pearl, to establish a long-term partnership that aims to generate sustainable sources of fuel to help diversify the region’s energy supply for a post-oil era. The collaboration was sealed with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and will begin with the production and […]
Advancing Deep Retrofits in the UAE
Majority say deep retrofit of buildings with 50% energy savings achievable in the UAE
Expo 2020’s Sustainability Pavilion
Terra – the Sustainability Pavilion is already inspiring action towards a cleaner, safer, healthier world, with 96 percent of people who have visited the Expo 2020 Pavilions Premiere so far saying the experience has motivated them to change their behaviour. Since launching at the end of January, the Pavilions Premiere has offered more than 50,000 […]
Tristar Awarded by Arabia CSR Network for its Health and Safety Programme
‘Safety at Sea’ initiatives were recognized under the ‘Partnerships and Collaborations’ category
Family Eco-Travels in the UAE & Oman
By Karolina Batcho, founder of Sustainably Fine As a global family with an insatiable appetite for travel, we wanted to explore as much as possible of our new home when we moved to the UAE in 2018. However, in the era of climate change and as fervent advocates of sustainable living, we wanted to […]
ION Partners with University Hospital Sharjah To Provide Sustainable Logistical Solutions
UAE-based sustainable mobility solutions provider ION, announced a partnership agreement today with University Hospital Sharjah to use ION’s fleet of electric vehicles to provide sustainable transportation services for its medical logistics and transportation needs across the Emirate. The agreement signed between the two entities, comes as part of ION’s remit to support the community by […]
An inspiration for all generations
As the winner of the 2020 Zayed Sustainability Prize in the Food category, Mustapha Diyaol Haqq is using his coding and artificial intelligence skills to make a difference, from teaching youth how to code to helping farmers in Ghana protect their crops from disease and pestilence From humble beginnings and no access to a […]
