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Dubai Airports To Ban Single-Use Plastics In 2020

Dubai Airports, DXB, today announced its pledge to ban single-use plastics from consumer spaces at the world’s busiest international airport effective 1st January 2020. Every...

DEWA To Develop Floating Solar Power Plants In Arabian Gulf

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, DEWA, has issued a request for proposal, RFP, for appointing consultants to study, develop and construct floating solar photovoltaic...

Recycled Rubber To Be Used In Paving UAE Roads: Ministry

For the first time in the UAE, a federal road will be paved with 'rubber asphalt' - a concrete material mixed with rubber from...

Etihad Airways To Operate Single-Use Plastic Free Flight On Earth Day

Etihad Airways will be the first airline in the region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board, in a bid to...

Dubai Saves 267MW In Electricity Consumption During Earth Hour

Dubai achieved significant results in reducing electricity use during Earth Hour 2019. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, DEWA, recorded savings of 267 megawatts, MW,...

World’s Largest e-Waste Recycling Facility Opens In Dubai

Dubai e-waste specialist Enviroserve has opened The Recycling Hub, the world’s largest e-waste recycling facility at a total cost of Dh120 million. Located at Dubai...

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park – A Leading Project That Promotes Sustainability...

The UAE has taken early steps to bid farewell to the last barrel of oil, and achieve a balance between development and maintaining a...

Mohamed bin Zayed Approves Dh1bn Of Incentives To Create Global AgTech Centre

His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, has approved...

Ministry Of Climate Change Bans Use Of Gargoor Fishing Nets In Abu Dhabi

The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, MoCCAE, has issued Ministerial Resolution No.82 of 2019, which bans the use of gargoor nets in...

‘Green’ Paint On UAE Projects To Absorb Carbon Emissions

Soon enough, all infrastructure projects in the country will be painted "green", not the colour but the eco-friendly kind of green. The Ministry of...