Dubai Supreme Council of Energy Reviews Dubai’s Net-Zero Efforts as Emissions Drop by 29% in 2023

HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy (DSCE), chaired the 84th gathering of the Council, which was held virtually successful the beingness of HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the DSCE.

The gathering was besides attended by HE Ahmed Buti Al Muhairbi, Secretary General of the Council, and committee members HE Dawood Al Hajri, Director General of Dubai Municipality; HE Abdulla bin Kalban, Managing Director of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA); HE Saif Humaid Al Falasi, CEO of Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC); Juan-Pablo Freile, General Manager of Dubai Petroleum; and Muna Al Osaimi, Chief Executive Officer of the Strategy and Corporate Governance Sector astatine the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA).

During the meeting, the Council reviewed the yearly c emissions inventory, which revealed a 29% reduction. This fig highlights the effectiveness of existent measures nether Dubai’s strategy to trim c emissions by 30% by 2030.

Dubai continues to beryllium a planetary person successful controlling emissions and linking them to a scope of programmes and projects implemented by entities nether the Council, including Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Dubai Municipality, EGA, ENOC Group, Dubai Petroleum and RTA.

“In enactment with the imaginativeness and directives of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to alteration Dubai into a net-zero system by 2050, and heighten the Emirate’s globally starring presumption successful sustainable maturation and greenish economy, the Council has evaluated aboriginal c emissions with the information of applicable entities successful Dubai. This volition assistance place the indispensable steps to mitigate emissions and illustration a roadworthy representation to execute nett zero by 2050. The Council is committed to establishing an effectual regulatory model to guarantee the occurrence of ongoing projects and programmes implicit the past decade,” said Al Tayer.

“The ongoing projects and programmes successful star energy, h2o and energy conservation, greenish mobility and operational ratio successful factories and facilities person played a important relation successful achieving the yearly emanation reduction. During the meeting, the Council approved a programme to impact the backstage assemblage successful the improvement of electrical conveyance charging stations to enactment the infrastructure and summation the fig of stations crossed Dubai,” added Al Tayer.

Al Muhairbi said: “Dubai began collecting c emissions information successful 2013 and past comparing it with yearly simplification targets. The implementation phases are reviewed with show indicators to guarantee yearly c emissions simplification targets.”

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