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Rewarding Conservation
FEWA hopes to drive change by installing special water-saving devices, comparing the levels of saving and rewarding the winners in monetary incentives of more than 750,000 AED for different categories.” As part of FEWA’s strategy to create, promote and reward the efforts of various sectors in water and electricity conservation, H.E. Suhail Al Mazrouei, Minister […]
Scaling New heights
With Ras Al Khaimah’s Destination 2019 strategy declaring a vision to be a sustainable and competitive tourism destination, it’s understandable sustainable tourism is a major focus for the emirate in coming years and, as such, much is in place to turn this vision into reality. “By identifying sustainable tourism as a major pillar of Ras […]
India’s Energy Challenge
It is big, fast growing, with a young population and a middle class that is nearly as big as the entire U.S. population. Those attributes all line up in the plus column for India, but on the other side of the ledger, this giant emerging market is dealing with a thirst for energy, rising CO2 […]
Growth in clean solar energy is a productive and constructive race that will benefit future generations
By HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and MD & CEO of DEWA There has been a global boom in the manufacture and usage of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in recent times. Very soon, we will use PV in additional areas including in the infrastructure we use […]
ACWA Power signs strategic agreements with three Chinese entities during the second Belt and Road Forum
ACWA Power, a leading developer, owner, and operator of power generation and water desalination plants has signed strategic agreements with three renowned Chinese entities on the sidelines of the second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). The agreements with PowerChina, China Gezhouba Group Company (CGGC) and Bank of China will lay the ground […]
Plastic Fantastic
Every January students at NYUAD embark on local and global academic travels for a distinctive learning experience known as the January Term or J-Term. This year, NYUAD students are learning about the use of plastic and its alternatives for maintaining sustainability through a course titled Plastic Fantastic, which taught by Assistant Professor of Practice Design […]
The Red Sea Development Company appoints AlFalah Ready Mix for the provision of low carbon concrete
The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), the developer behind one of the world’s most ambitious tourism projects, has awarded a contract to AlFalah Ready Mix for the supply of structural low-carbon concrete manufactured utilizing recycled raw materials to meet existing and upcoming project demand while adhering to its environmental sustainability goals. “TRSDC is leading the […]
Dialogue with Lord Browne
1. Was Beyond Petroleum too early, too bold, and too fast for the industry 20 years ago? ‘Beyond Petroleum’ certainly did not feel fast at the time; it was the product of almost a decade of thinking, listening and consultation both within BP and with stakeholders and experts outside the company. It was a reflection […]
Acting Today to Meet Skills Gaps in the Future
By Dr Matar Al Neyadi, Chairman, 24th World Energy Congress; Undersecretary, UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry In the last decades the UAE has been transformed into one of the world’s most advanced economies and transformative business environments, through the energy, vision and entrepreneurship of a generation; we are acutely aware that we need to […]
Sustainable Fashion
The first thing that comes to the mind when we hear Sustainable Fashion is that it comes as a joke to the mind of whoever is part of the industry considering what those terms mean which are two contradictory words together that makes no sense ; can never be the same. If you see very […]
