The Environment Protection and Development Authority in Ras Al Khaimah held a workshop entitled “The Path to Success and Reaching Carbon Neutrality”, which falls within the Best Environmental Practices Program.
The workshop targeted a number of local government agencies in the emirate and a number of leading industrial facilities with an environmental impact. The workshop aimed to invite enterprises to start developing solutions and alternatives to reach carbon neutrality in their practical fields in order to achieve the strategic directions of the United Arab Emirates.
Dr. Saif Mohammed Al Ghais, Director-General of the authority, stated that the current trend of the UAE is to commit to reducing its carbon emissions to be a role model for managing energy and the environment in the world. This workshop also emphasizes the country’s efforts implicitly in the strategic initiative to achieve climate neutrality by 2050.
Within the workshop, global warming and greenhouse gases were introduced and ways to reduce their emissions and maintain them at levels that do not affect the existence of life. The best alternative and renewable sources of energy, which would be as efficient or better than the usual traditional sources of energy, were also reviewed. The UAE towards carbon neutrality in the sectors of transportation, waste management, and others.
At the conclusion of the workshop, the participants were divided into working groups according to their sectors to exchange experiences and review environmental procedures and practices in their fields that achieve carbon neutrality to transfer experience and knowledge, as their recommendations were shared to other sectors and to the authority.
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