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The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) has rolled out the National Plan of Action for the Conservation of Marine Turtles in the UAE 2018-2021 that seeks to protect marine turtles and their habitats in the country’s waters.

The Plan [...] 

With effective and timely action, the world’s most valuable resource – its oceans – could be saved. In creating a sustainable ocean economy, countries around the globe have a real chance at protecting their biodiversity and safeguarding [...] 

The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has launched ‘The Reservation and Sustainability of Marine Water in Abu Dhabi’, a book that documents [...] 

The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance (GCWDA) has entered into a partnership with the International Office for Water (IOWater), a France-based not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving global water resource management.

The collaboration [...] 

The 2019 Solar Outlook Report sheds light on recent developments in MENAs solar markets and outlines the trends that will shape these markets in the years ahead. They key highlights are:

• The region’s solar market is now worth $20 billion. There is $5 billion worth of solar projects operating across MENA with another $15 billion of projects set come online in next 5 years.
• Prices for solar technolog continues to fall. The 200 MW Kom Ombo solar PV project in Egypt and the 150 MW Round 3 solar PV tender in Jordan both received low bids of 2.752 US$ cent/kWh and 2.488 US$ cent/kWh respectively. This is around 50% cheaper than the natural gas-based price for electricity. It is expected that in the next 3 years the price for solar will reach 1 US$ cent/kWh which would make it among the cheapest in the world.
• New markets are opening up for solar investments across the MENA region. Saudi Arabia started construction on its first utility scale PV project (300 MW Sakaka) The Kingdom is on track to award 58,000 MW of solar power by 2030, making it one of the top 5 solar markets in the world. Jordan and Lebanon are also in the process of awarding some of the first utility scale storage tenders in the region. Algeria, Tunisia and Oman are also launching major solar projects.

“We are thrilled to see how rapidly solar energy has grown towards [...] 

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, has positioned itself in the commercial off-grid energy sector by increasing its capacity to rapidly deploy solar kits in off-grid communities around the world.

Building on the company’s extensive experience [...] 

Day three of WFES (World Future Energy Summit), a key enabler of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2019 (ADSW), features the WFES Tech for Good Forum and the WFES Solar Forum with leading sector executives discussing humanitarian applications of new tech [...] 

Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, signed a new agreement with Trane Commercial, during the International District Energy Association (IDEA) Campus Energy Conference [...] 

Khalifa University of Science and Technology, the Abu Dhabi Transmission and Dispatch company (TRANSCO) and the Manitoba Hydro International Ltd (MHI) of Canada, have signed a collaboration agreement today for building an industrial-level software [...] 

H.E. Eng. Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, Minister of Energy, Industry, and Mineral Resources for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) expressed his appreciation for the significant development of the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant in a recent visit to the [...]