Sustainability and Social Impact – Do you have what it takes?

The 2020 hasn’t even entered its final quarter, but we can for sure tell it wasn’t an easy one. But, things seem to be getting better, the humanity has adjusted to the new normal and continued doing what we’re really best at as a species – getting the most out of the given circumstances. We’ve […]


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 […]


UAE’s 20by2020 Initiative Lights Up Remote Community in Egypt

Abu Dhabi, UAE – 17 September 2020 – The Zayed Sustainability Prize has announced that solar-powered lighting solutions developed by one of its previous winners have been installed in the Egyptian village of Habisha, in the Asyut Governorate – as the latest deployment from the UAE-driven humanitarian initiative, 20by2020. With an aim to improve standards […]


ITA Takes the Spotlight at WETEX

Italy pushes to exploit green energy opportunities to help economies recover from COVID-19


ACCIONA WILL BUILD ITS FOURTH DESALINATION PLANT IN SAUDI ARABIA

The Saudi publicly-owned company Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has awarded ACCIONA and its partner RTCC the construction of the Al Khobar 2 desalination plant at Khobar, on the east coast of Saudi Arabia around 400 kilometres from Riyadh. It is a turnkey contract valued at around $500 million (€460 million). The facility will be […]


ENOC Group Recognised at the Clean Energy Ministerial for Sustainable Energy Resource Management

ENOC Group has recently won the coveted 2020 Energy Management Insight Award by Clean Energy Ministerial, a global forum of 25 countries and the European Commission designed to promote sustainable policies and programmes to advance clean energy. ENOC Group was recognised for the implementation of ISO 50001, a global standard to better manage retail operations […]


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 […]


Farnek Launches State-of-the-Art Remote Energy Audit System

Leading UAE-based technology and sustainability-driven facilities management (FM) company Farnek, will utilise virtual video tools and online data collection, to provide building owners and tenants with recommendations to improve energy performance and cut costs, remotely. The remote system, which has been introduced due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting reduced operations and access […]