Go Green

Spokesperson: Deepa Vaidyanathan, Senior Director, Communications & Sustainability, Procter & Gamble AMA

1. What is the significance of Earth Day?

At P&G, we fully embrace our responsibility to protect our planet, and Earth Day is a reminder to showcase our appreciation to our home [...] 

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Students at American University of Sharjah (AUS) celebrated Earth Day 2022 by taking a stand against fast fashion.

A new fashion swap initiative encouraged students to exchange clothes, shoes and accessories at a pop-up thrift shop on campus. Fashion [...] 

Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa (VMMEA), the region’s leading mobile virtual network operator (MVNO),hasmade further strides towards building a carbon negative business (one that removes more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits each year) [...] 

Samsung Gulf Electronics today announced its expansion plans into 18 new Samsung Authorized Service Centers, including three in the UAE; three in Qatar; and six for each of Oman and Kuwait as part of the brand’s Recycling Program and broader ESG [...] 

Etihad has released its Sustainability Report 2020-2021, outlining the impact the company has had on the environment, and detailing its Sustainability strategy, represented by the Etihad Greenliner and Sustainable50 programmes. The report demonstrates [...] 

Emirates Environmental Group conducted the 22^ndcycle of the annual Inter School Environmental Public Speaking Competition from 18^thto 21^stApril 2022with the participation of 424 students from 89 teams. EEG aims through [...] 

In support of the UAE’s vision to plant 100,000 million mangrove trees by 2030, as announced by H.E. Mariam bint Mohammed AlMeheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, integrated solutions provider, Dulsco has undertaken a CSR project [...] 

Locally owned supermarket Spinneyshas become the first retailer to partner with the ‘Food for Life’ programme, a UAE initiative to drive nation wide transformation towards healthier diets from sustainable food systems.

Led by the Ministry of Climate [...] 

Every day on this planet is Earth Day! But if more people are listening this month or this day, then we are willing to repeat it once again… Every single action, no matter how small, makes a difference. It’s always the difficult changes that [...]