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Advancing Deep Retrofits in the UAE
Majority say deep retrofit of buildings with 50% energy savings achievable in the UAE
The Future of Smart Living
It is interesting to see the smart home industry shift from a centralised, fully-fledged solution to a de-centralised mix and match of smart gadgets. Remember the days when you wanted to ‘smartify’ your home? You would need to call an expert to come in for a consultation and offer a solution that would probably cost […]
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 […]
Fuelling Sustainability with HE Saif Al Falasi
1. How are you incorporating sustainability, in particular energy savings and alternative energy sources, into your corporate strategy? ENOC’s operational excellence across the length and breadth of its businesses is well-known in the market, and so is our intensive work in Energy & Resource Management (E&RM). We work closely with the Dubai Supreme Council of […]
Adoption of renewable energy sources in response to climate change
Sustainable energy innovation is of critical importance in achieving the global climate targets. Vivek Agarwal explores how technological solutions and a canny funding strategy can help make adopting renewable energy sources more feasible. In 2017, human-induced global warming hit approximately 1°C above pre-industrial levels8. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015 achieved quasi-global […]
A Living Lab for Future Technologies
The Sustainable City (TSC) in Dubai is deploying new technologies and management systems to achieve social, economic and environmental outcomes. These systems include grid-edge technologies, driverless transport, vertical farming, and smart metering to name a few. Deploying, testing, and integrating these systems in The Sustainable City – or any other community – requires an innovation […]
Promoting Public-Private Partnerships
On the sidelines of the World Government Summit here in Dubai, I had the opportunity to catch up with the recently appointed Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Achim Steiner. Steiner succeeded Helen Clark, former UNDP Administrator, but also the former New Zealand Prime Minister. UNDP released amazing initiatives under her administration but […]
Designed In The UAE, Made For The World
At Manarati, we believe a smart city is one that improves the quality of life and happiness of its citizens by providing a smart infrastructure that enables connectivity and other smart use cases based on the utilisation of data. The key criteria for a successful smart city is that it should blend digital connectivity with […]
Sustaining Sustainability
Most city dwellers spend much of their time indoors, inside a building. Buildings consume nearly 40 per cent of all global energy, and are both heavy on people and assets, affecting the environment at large. Despite the fact that the global facilities management industry is close to a trillion dollars, buildings continue to operate as […]
Costs of fuel motorcycles to our environment
COSTS OF FUEL MOTORCYCLES Below air transport, petrol powered motorcycles are the most damaging vehicles to the environment. We’ve researched the affects fuel-based motorcycles have on the environment compared to cars and other forms of transport. With the increasing demand and supply of petrol motorcycles in the delivery sector these statistics are shocking! ONE MOTO […]
