The Red Sea Development Company Secures Riyal-Denominated Green Finance Credit Facility

The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer behind the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism project, announced today that it has closed a SAR 14.120 billion (USD 3.76 billion) term loan facility and revolving credit facility with four Saudi banks. Banque Saudi Fransi, Riyad Bank, Saudi British Bank and Saudi National Bank acted as Mandated […]


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 […]


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 […]


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 […]


This Too Shall Pass

By Mohamed Elimam   It has been 8 weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic. The emotional roller-coaster is becoming stronger, but has gotten in a recognizable pattern. On one hand, the new peak frequency of news of companies undergoing mass lay-off exercises is nerve wrecking. The longingness to our […]


Kent College Dubai goes Solar with SirajPower

First school project and new sectorial expansion for SirajPower in 2020 following the first foray into residential Kent College’s project will displace approximately 1,600 metric tons of carbon dioxide emission (Co2) per annum (the equivalent of 200 Mn smartphones being charged) Educational opportunities associated with the use of solar energy in schools UAE, Dubai: 7 […]


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 […]


EAD Rehabilitates Local Samar Blossoms

Abu Dhabi, 15 September 2020: The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has successfully commenced a major rehabilitation project covering a total of 18 hectares in Jebel Hafit National Park by planting local Samar trees (Acacia tortilis) in areas which were environmentally degraded due to overgrazing, logging and expansions from previous infrastructure projects. The Agency […]


Emirates Airline Festival of Literature

The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is the Arab World’s largest celebration of the written and spoken word, featuring international and regional writers, poets, thinkers and speakers from around the world. Visit the Festival in 2020, 4 – 9 February, to enjoy great conversations, thought provoking discussions, laugh-out-loud interactive children’s sessions, and spectacular special events. […]


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 […]