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This World Environment Day, it’s Time for Nature
MYEARTH is driving innovation by launching a starch-based fully compostable product lineup that is totally organic and soluble in water, thereby supporting UAE’s vision 2021 which aims to create and maintain a sustainable environment. MYEARTH is the first-ever UAE homegrown company to offer organic alternatives to plastic products. In recent times, we have witnessed an […]
Financing the Sustainable Recovery
By Marion Amiot, Senior Economist at S&P Global Ratings As the rate of new coronavirus cases and deaths slows across the European Union, and governments look for lockdown exit strategies, more and more voices are calling for a green recovery. The EU is intending to use its pandemic recovery plan to reinforce its fight […]
Tickets for Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2021 Go on Sale
Tickets are on sale from 12:00 tomorrow, Thursday 14 January for the region’s premier literary event, the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature (29 January-13 February). Nobel prize winner Malala, Booker nominees Avni Doshi (Burnt Sugar) and Oyinkan Braithwaite (My Sister the Serial Killer) will be among the authors taking to the stage. Programme highlights also […]
For the Gulf to Recover Faster, we Must Go Green
By Waseem Taqqali, Vice President Field Services, Schneider Electric Gulf Much has been said about the past few months and what has happened to our societies and economies. And yet not enough has been shared about what comes next, and how we recover. Tens of millions of jobs have been lost as most of […]
IFHC Marks World Education Day With Launch of Game
The International Fund For Houbara Conservation (IFHC), the global leader in pre-emptive species conservation, has enhanced its burgeoning reputation at the forefront of digital learning with the launch of ‘Centennial in Review’, its second educational game. Produced in both Arabic and English, ‘Centennial in Review’, launched today to mark World Education Day, gives players an […]
DEWA receives registration requests for WETEX and DSS 2020
The two exhibitions are organised virtually for 1st time in MENA and focus on water, energy, sustainability, and innovation Dubai, UAE, 7 September 2020: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has started receiving registration requests from exhibitors, companies and visitors for the 22nd Water, Energy, Technology, and Environment Exhibition (WETEX) and the 5th Dubai Solar […]
Now is the Time to put Women at the Heart of the Economy
We are just days away from the G20 Leaders’ Summit, the first to take place in the throes of a global pandemic. Fully cognizant of the many pressing concerns before G20 leaders later this week, we, the Women’s Engagement Group (W20), recognize that the focus on women’s empowerment and gender equality are fundamental and essential […]
Biologists at NYU Create “Atlas” of Gene Expression in Neurons
A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and NYU, led by Silver Professor of Biology and of Neuroscience at NYU and Co-Director of NYUAD’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology (CGSB) Claude Desplan, has created a “developmental atlas” of gene expression in neurons, using gene sequencing and machine learning to categorize more than […]
Prince Albert of Monaco to Deliver Keynote Address at ADSW
H S H Prince Albert II of Monaco, Head of State, Principality of Monaco will deliver a keynote address at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), the global platform for accelerating sustainable development, hosted by Masdar, which runs from 18-21 January 2021 as a reimagined virtual event this year. For over a decade, Abu Dhabi […]
ADFD-Funded $15 Million Solar Plant Gets Capacity Boost to 15MW
Financing part of the Fund’s commitment of $350 million to support renewable energy uptake in developing countries Project helps Cuba to move a step further in its goal of producing 24 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030 ADFD selects a second 14.3MW solar PV project for the country under the seventh cycle […]
