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ABU DHABI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, chaired the Ministerial Development Council meeting, which was held at Qasr Al Watan, Abu Dhabi. The meeting discussed a number of legislations and policies aiming at supporting and developing the government work ecosystem, including the climate action ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has inaugurated the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project in the world, within the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The 950-megawatt (MW) fourth phase is the largest investment project ...

DUBAI / WAM The UAE adopts a set of integrated policies to enhance and diversify job opportunities, boost employment rates, and drive economic prosperity in the country as part of its tireless efforts to combat climate change. This statement was made during a special session by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), held on the sidelines of the 28th United Nations ...

DUBAI / WAM On Wednesday, the COP28 Presidency joined with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28, and Bloomberg Philanthropies to call on housing, urban development, environment, and finance ministers to back the ‘Joint Outcome Statement on Urbanisation and Climate Change’ (the Statement). The statement, which was supported by over 40 Ministers ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), the Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, has announced its investment in Zenobē, a global player in fleet electrification and battery storage solutions. This strategic investment by Mubadala was executed with Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of MG Plc, where Mubadala is a strategic limited partner. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Zenobē ...

DOHA/ WAM UAE President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan headed the UAE delegation participating in the 44th Session of the Gulf Cooperation Council Supreme Council. The summit was inaugurated today in Doha by His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar. The summit addressed ways to build upon the historical cooperation ...

RAS AL KHAIMAH / WAM H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, has directed to reduce commercial licensing fees by 25 percent for all small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the southern regions. The directives came within the framework of Sheikh Saud’s follow-up of work progress in various economic sectors in ...

DUBAI / WAM The Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (Enec) and Westinghouse, an international leader in designing, developing and deploying commercial nuclear energy facilities, have together signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding the eVinci microreactor as a key solution for tackling the dual challenges of energy security and climate change. The MoU signing took place at COP28 between Mohamed Al ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has endorsed the ‘Dubai Portfolio for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) (2024-2026),’ encompassing 10 projects with an estimated value of AED2.5 billion. The move is in line with Dubai Government’s strategy to foster public-private partnerships aimed to boost the emirate’s economic growth by expanding the role of the private sector in the development ...

DUBAI / WAM Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, President and CEO of UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA), on Tuesday chaired a Youth Ambition Majlis at COP28, hosted by Shamma bint Suhail Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of Community Development and COP28 Youth Climate Champion. The Majlis highlighted the central role of young people in addressing climate change, ...