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Starwood Hotels accelerates its eco-wise element pipeline in the UAE with fourth Dubai signing

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Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT) has signed an agreement with La Vender Real Estate LLC to open a new Element hotel in Dubai, expected to become the fourth Element hotel in the fast-evolving market. Scheduled to open in 2019, [...] 

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Shams Dubai initiative creates new energy landscape in Dubai

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British ESA astronaut Tim Peake took some incredible photos of Dubai and Palm Jumeirah from a space station recently. He tweeted: ‘Here’s #Dubai at night – always easy to recognise.’

The day picture will be even brighter with [...] 

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UN, World Bank panel report calls for fundamental shift in water management

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With 700 million people worldwide at risk of being displaced by intense water scarcity by 2030, water infrastructure investment must be at least doubled over the next five years, a panel set up by the United Nations and the World Bank recommended on [...] 

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McKinsey Energy Insights predicts oil market oversupply into 2017

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McKinsey Energy Insights (MEI), the data and analytics specialist that provides distinctive insight and support to the global energy industry, forecasts that it will take more than six months for the oil markets to fully rebalance.
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Empower achieves a total electricity savings worth AED 2.8 billion in 2017

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Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), the world’s largest district cooling services provider, has achieved total electricity savings of 1072 MW in 2017, which worth AED 2.8billion.

District Cooling saves approximately 50% of power [...] 

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DEWA develops worlds 1st automated renewable energy digital utility

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The world’s first automated, artificial-intelligence-powered renewable energy digital utility is set to be established in Dubai.

The utility is proposed by the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, DEWA, for the Dubai 10X Initiative, an ambitious [...] 

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Swarovski and BSR Announce Collaborative Sustainability Project

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The ‘Women in Jewelry’ project, which began in January 2018, aims to deliver in-depth research on the current status of women in the global jewelry supply chain.

Following an initial report this Spring, with a focus on the mining, cutting and polishing, [...] 

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