Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

The UAE Drones for Good Award is “dedicated to transforming the innovative technologies behind civilian drones into practical, realizable solutions for improving people’s lives today.” ” The UAE drones for good competition has a similar goal of rewarding those who can imagine drones being used as plowshares instead of as swords. As of this writing the UAE drones for good competition has received 800 individual entries from 57 countries.

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Green Prophet

JUNE 2, 2019

Next Wednesday, baristas at Costa Coffee will be pouring free coffee for all United Arab Emirates (UAE) customers who belly up to the coffee bar bearing personal reusable cups.The giveaway celebrates World Environment Day 2019, which falls on June 5th. Since doing that, more than 20,000 customers have taken advantage of the offer, in the process diverting at least that many paper cups from UAE landfills.

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JANUARY 11, 2020

Follow Team UAE on Instagram. The UAE cycling team is posted below. . . The post Team Israel and the UAE go leg to leg at the Tour de France in 2020 appeared first on Green Prophet | Impact News for the Middle East.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

There is a lot of potential for eco-friendly solutions to be developed in the UAE, which is a promising sign for businesses and the wider economy. The pressure for environmentally friendly energy solutions on the globe is now more than ever. With an increased demand for energy supply comes an equally high demand for sustainability and environmental responsibility.

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Green Prophet

MARCH 16, 2015

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-Nahayan, founder of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), created the remote nature reserve in 1971. Check out Sir Bani Yas island and experience the raw, natural environment of the UAE. Oryx, giraffes and cheetahs – species once facing regional extinction – are making a robust reappearance on a desert island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE ban plastics too. Effective last January, the UAE banned non-oxo-biodegradable shopping bags as a first step, to be followed by 15 additional items and gradually extending to all other disposable items. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) announced plans to ban the use of plastic bags starting next year. The ruling also applies to plastic containers that come in direct contact with food products (think take-away and deli counter sales).

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Green Prophet

MAY 11, 2015

UAE trendsetters can now literally chillax in indoor “ snow rooms” that create real snow using a snow-making system like that used for the interior ski slopes in Dubai’s Mall of the Emirates. Dubai-based Desert Snow, self-billed as the region’s only specialist in “winter solutions”, is an authorized distributor for the snow rooms in the UAE, offering both sales and technical support there and in Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and Egypt.

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Green Prophet

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

It’s hard to know which way the UAE turn with regard to sustainable food. Still, with gestures like the greening of the Liwa International School in Al Ain, there’s great hope that widespread ecology awareness will become the norm in the influential UAE. More on the UAE’s eco-challenges: The Grass is Greener in the UAE. UAE Stands by Its Nuclear Plans. :: Gulfnews.com. Protecting food security in Abu Dhabi.

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Green Prophet

JANUARY 12, 2013

Dr. Rashid bin Fahad, Minister of Environment and Water told the paper that collecting this data will provide “a clear picture of the UAE’s emissions.” As a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol, the UAE is required to measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions using a system that was set up by the United Nations. Abu Dhabi has the world’s 5th highest proven oil reserve and the 6th highest reserve of natural gas.

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Green Prophet

MARCH 6, 2015

A newborn baby boy has died and his three-year-old brother is critically ill in hospital after they inhaled a toxic pesticide used in the apartment next door to his family’s home in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Police said the neighbour sprayed his flat with the banned bug-killer, which he was given by a friend, then left for a few hours.

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Green Prophet

MAY 7, 2016

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) upped the wackiness factor of its portfolio of national mega-projects, announcing plans to build an artificial alp so the country can control its weather. The UAE lives on desalinated seawater, energy-intensive and expensive to produce. But he emphasized the larger forces at play, “The UAE is a desert because of the wind patterns arising from global atmospheric circulations, and any mountain they build is not going to alter those.”.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

WASHINGTON — Israel is the best-prepared country in the Middle East for climate change, followed closely by the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Turkey, according to data released Nov. 5 by the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN).

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Unlike many wild animals in the UAE, prized Saker Falcons receive first-class protection. Falconry protection has been so successful in the UAE that even John Scanlon, the secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), praised the UAE’s efforts at the recent Eye on Earth Summit , according to The National. .

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Green Prophet

DECEMBER 4, 2014

They aim to incite other UAE facilities to similarly self-audit for immediate environmental – and economic – benefits. . A United Arab Emirates-based firm has just concluded what it says is the region’s first water and energy audit of a large-scale housing facility for over 1,000 guest workers.

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APRIL 28, 2011

More About Tafline and the UAE: Must It Be “The End of the Line&# For Fish? Competition: Calling all future UAE Eco-Bloggers.

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Green Prophet

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Each episode will feature extraordinary footage of the numerous fauna, flora and landscapes that make the UAE so special. Viewers outside of the UAE can visit EAD’s YouTube channel for a chance to see this very charismatic man change the way people see the world around them, and the way they live! More on travel and nature in the UAE: Nat Geo Goes on Tour Through the UAE. Click here to view the embedded video.

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Green Prophet

JULY 22, 2012

From growing protests in Jordan and Egypt to the first ever approved plant in UAE – we have the latest on nuclear from the region. UAE Environment Agency Approves Nuclear Plant. In other news, the Abu Dhabi environment agency has approved plans for the UAE’s first nuclear power plant. Jordan’s nuclear ambitions , which have faced a particularly rocky time over the years , encounters more drawbacks.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Speaking at the World Economic Forum’s ‘Annual Meeting of the New Champions’ in China, the United Arab Emirates Minister of Energy Mohammed Bin Dhaen Al Hamli said that the incident at the Fukushima nuclear station had not derailed the UAE’s nuclear plans. The minister added that as the nuclear plans for the UAE were still in their infancy, they would be able to incorporate the latest safety features.

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Green Prophet

MAY 1, 2011

Last year several newspapers reported that the UAE were planning to end subsidies, but the recent Arab Spring has made that virtually impossible. Mr. Awad believes the recent spread of discontent from Tunisia to Yemen may have set the UAE back by at least five years.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

However, a recent report which found that water demand is likely to double by 2030 in the UAE has got government authorities worried and they are now promoting the benefits of water conservation. The UAE Environment Ministry has come up with a six-part plan to enhance water security and stem the rising tide of water consumption. The UAE recently announced that they would be sticking by plans to build four nuclear reactors by 2017 to ensure they meet rising demands for electricity.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

All great steps without question, yet one has to wonder how effective moves like this will improve sustainability in the UAE as a whole, especially with what has happened to the region’s proposed savior: Masdar City. ” Hearing that Masdar City – once a place filled with so much hope and expectation for a completely environmentally-friendly ethos – is now backtracking on its promises, will be hard to stomach for the UAE.

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Green Prophet

MARCH 15, 2011

Is now a good time to announce uranium sales to an unstable region like the Middle East?

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JULY 18, 2014

But Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE vice president and ruler of Dubai, recently confirmed that this is about to change with news that the United Arab Emirates is planning to send a spaceship to Mars by 2021. Al Maktoum said in a statement that the agency will be responsible for “organizing the mission, developing the UAE’s aerospace sector, and maximizing the contribution of space industries to the national economy,” writes The Verge.

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Green Prophet

JULY 5, 2011

McDonalds is poised to recycle all of its vegetable oil from UAE branches into 100% biodiesel. In conjunction with Dubai-based Neutral Fuels, LLC, McDonalds UAE has committed to converting all of its used vegetable oil into a biofuel. McDonalds UAE Managing Director Rafic Fakih noted that all of the food giant’s vehicles will also be powered by the biodiesel produced from its recycled vegetable oil. UAE To Cut Electricity Output, Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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Green Prophet

MARCH 23, 2011

Green Prophet delves into the bloody and murky business of shark fishing and fining in the United Arab Emirates.

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MAY 2, 2011

Nessrine explains to the children that one of the most popular fish species in the UAE is also endangered. EWS-WWF has launched their “ Choose Wisely &# consumer guide in which they document exactly which fish in the UAE are overfished and should therefore be avoided.

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Green Prophet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Recently, a wealthy UAE client visited Wingham’s UK studio to collect a frock, and they got to talking about the designer’s obsession with sculpting chocolate. Marie Antoinette has nothing on wealthy Arab clients who commissioned a cake commemorating their daughter’s combo birthday and engagement party. The confection whipped up by a British dress designer cost a whopping $74 million USD. That’s a lot of bread for a cake. Granted it’s big.

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AUGUST 5, 2013

This project is not related to either the UAE’s other solar energy developments, including the impressive Shams 1 CSP plant , or Saudi’s ambitious intention to spend up to $100 billion to lift itself out of the ranks as one of the less solarized Middle Eastern nations. Two of the top four oil-producing OPEC members , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have joined forces in a push to secure $1 billion in funding for Middle East solar-power , Bloomberg reports.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

In 2007, the UAE became the third country in the word, after Switzerland and Japan, to work with WWF on an Ecological Footprint Initiative. And the WWF judged the UAE to be the world’s most environmentally wasteful country on the planet 12 years running, a rank it only recently lost to Qatar and Kuwait earlier in 2012. If all of the world’s inhabitants lived like citizens of the UAE, we would require 5.4 Water is another huge environmental issue facing the UAE.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The surrounding Liwa Desert holds evidence of occupation dating back to the late Stone Age; it’s of the oldest sites in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Google, bastion of cool-tech, has gone Throwback Thursday in a major way – resorting to camels to capture its latest addition to Google Maps. Thanks to their “camel-cam”, you can now explore Abu Dhabi’s Liwa Oasis exactly as the Bedouin have done for centuries, without leaving home.

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JULY 30, 2012

Residents of the UAE say there are always more accidents during Ramadan, both because people are rushing and because the fast from sunrise to sunset can make them tired, especially in the heat. “I I tell my students that they should drive carefully and buckle their seat belts,” Ahmed el-Hussein, a professor of political science at the UAE University told The Media Line. Police say Ramadan and Bad Driving Habits to Blame.

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

The Bee’ah School of Environment ( BSOE ), an education initiative created by a UAE-based environmental and waste management company, recently announced it is expanding its networks in the eastern and central region of Sharjah, engaging with 160,000 students in over 200 schools. The BSOE envisions an expansion of this initiative, hoping to spread throughout the UAE, with the support of both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Environment and Water.

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MAY 17, 2011

They leach toxic materials into our soil and water, they kill marine and terrestrial life, choke roughly half of the UAE’s camels , and won’t stop doing these things for centuries since they don’t biodegrade. It’s the Beginning of the End of Plastic Bags for the UAE.

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MARCH 10, 2014

In an attempt to ‘greenify’ the UAE’s Western Region desert , (some claim in the hope of creating a milder micro-climate in the UAE) more than 100 million trees have been planted, often as buffer zones like the one depicted, and irrigated, mostly, with precious groundwater. . The UAE’s groundwater was deposited 10,000 years ago during the last ice age.

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Green Prophet

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Thanks to a recent feature in Sadiyaty Magazine, residents of the UAE may soon be interested in recycled cardboard furniture. Published weekly by the Saudi Research & Publishing Company, Sadiyaty Magazine is an Arabic-language market leader which will hopefully succeed in setting a greener trend in the UAE. ” Perhaps this lamp will soon adorn the large spaces of some homes in the UAE. :: Sanserif Creatius.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Camel milk chocolate sounds good. The only problem is getting enough milk. We’ve given 6 reasons to drink camel’s milk, one of which is that it’s delicious. Exploiting a local source of rich milk, Dubai’s Camelicious company makes pralines and chocolate bars made with camel milk touted as gourmet treats in the United Arab Emirates. Made under the label Al Nassma, the exotic confections may be appearing in Europe and the US soon.

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MAY 27, 2015

The measure was Read More The post UAE to Make Strays Glow in The Dark to Avoid Accidents appeared first on Ecorazzi. Stray animals in the United Arab Emirates will be looking a lot more stylish soon as the country suits them in protective glow in the dark vests. Animals Causes News Top News

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MARCH 17, 2011

With Dubai’s property sector still in crisis, many predict the end for real estate glitz and the start of a more modest UAE.

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AUGUST 21, 2011

The next step by GM may be the production of an electric version similar to the stretch limo electric super-bus , which is soon expected to be plying the highways between the two UAE “future cities&#. Sleek, green and probably expensive ; GM’s extended range ELR will soon be coming off assembly lines.

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APRIL 4, 2011

We speak to Ibrahim Al Zu’bi from the Emirates Divers Association about why the ban on shark finning in the UAE hasn’t worked and what ordinary people can do to stop the horrific trade.

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Green (Living) Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

By Michael Smith (Veshengro) The Middle East is a region where car is king and fuel is cheap, often leaving little incentive to find more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around. But this year, as protests across the Middle East have pushed up the price of oil, the issue of finding alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.

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MARCH 3, 2011

That is what the Editor-in-Chief of the UAE-based Al Arabiya Magazine aims to achieve on his tour of the UAE. Salma said on UAE Sustainability Conference Inspires Change : I’m one of those green newbies; I. ????????????

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