A state-of-the-art ‘green’ destination that hosted the world for six months, Expo City Dubai is the proud host of COP28 – The Emirates Climate Conference with the UNFCCC, sharing the global summit’s objectives of achieving sustainability and enabling action towards climate security. The City carries the sustainability legacy of Expo 2020 Dubai, with a commitment to engaging and elevating the voices of youth in the journey to a sustainable future. Marking the one-year countdown to COP28, Expo City Dubai kicks off a diverse and engaging calendar of sustainability-themed events, featuring thought-provoking youth discussions, performances, exhibitions and more.
Author: Kasun Illankoon
As the next megatrend in the field of agribusiness and nutrition, vertical farming is a space-saving, sustainable and efficient way of growing plants that promotes future global food security. However, as an indoor farming solution, internal temperature control and regulation remains critical to the success of vertical farms, especially in regions experiencing extreme summer temperatures such as the Middle East. Polyurethane insulation sandwich panels have been revealed as the cost-effective insulation and cladding solution installed on a major vertical farm project in Dubai, paving the way for other vertical farm developments elsewhere in the Middle East. Emirates Flight Catering,…
Using a range of sustainable materials in the tire tread compound, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has developed the Eagle GO concept tire, which will be fitted to Citroën’s new concept car, oli. For more than 120 years, Goodyear has pursued sustainable, low-maintenance innovations and inventions and partnering with Citroën continues a long-standing relationship between both brands. The Eagle GO is the third Goodyear concept tire developed with Citroën and has been created to optimise efficiency, durability and comfort. Sustainable-material tread compound This concept tire uses a compound in the tread, the part of the tire that wears, made of…
Daimler Commercial Vehicles MENA FZE is excited to announce the next edition of its TeCHamp competition for Technicians and Parts & Service Advisors from FUSO and Mercedes-Benz Trucks authorised General Distributors and Service Centres. The initiative demonstrates DCV MENA’s commitment to after sales customer satisfaction through its service centres, which play a key role in ensuring that trucks are always on the road and earning for their owners and operators. Following a successful pilot program that was launched in the UAE last year, the competition – which focuses on an individual’s hard and soft skills has been expanded to include…
Infinity Power Holding, the joint venture between the UAE’s Masdar and Egypt’s Infinity, announced today that the solar photovoltaic (PV) plant it has developed in Sharm El-Sheikh is now fully operational – ready to provide clean, renewable energy to COP27, the United Nations climate change conference taking place in the Egyptian city. The 6-megawatts (MWp) plant – which can generate as much as 11,723 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy per year, enough to power more than 5,000 homes while cutting CO2 emissions by over 4,000 tonnes – will continue to operate after the conference, providing clean energy to the city for…
Al Taif Investment, a joint venture between Dubai Investments – the leading diversified investments company listed on the Dubai Financial Market and Fujairah Investment Establishment (FIE), the investment arm of the Fujairah Government, has today announced new business updates of Al Taif Business Center, its flagship project in Fujairah. Al Taif Mall, the retail segment within Al Taif Business Center is almost 50% leased out. The G+2 level shopping mall, nestled between Al Taif Business Center’s 19 floor Hotel & Residential and Office Tower is spread across both the towers and is equipped with 45 retail outlets including supermarkets and…
Red Sea Wind Energy together with the Egyptian Ministry of Electricity and Renewable Energy held, on Monday the 31st of October, 2022, a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 500 MW Build-Own-Operate Wind Farm near Ras Ghareb, Egypt. Red Sea Wind Energy is a consortium comprising ENGIE (35%), Orascom Construction PLC (25%), Toyota Tsusho Corporation (20%), Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation (20%) Located on the shores of the Gulf of Suez, 40 km North-West of Ras Ghareb in Egypt, Gulf of Suez Project 2 will be the largest onshore wind power plant in ENGIE’s portfolio. The project meets strict environmental standards and…
Global professional services company, Data Centre Cost, recently released its 2022 Data Centre Cost Index, which analyses construction input costs – including labour and materials – across 45 key markets, alongside industry sentiment and insight from a survey of 250 data centre professionals. This year’s results revealed that the average cost to build data centres has increased by 15 percent on average across global markets, with record-breaking inflation, amid delays to materials deliveries and competition for skilled labour from large-scale advanced manufacturing projects. For the first time, Singapore became one of the top ten most expensive markets for data centre…