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DUBAI / WAM Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and VERBUND Green Hydrogen GmbH have signed a deal to explore developing a green hydrogen plant in central Spain and drive efforts decarbonise Europe’s hard-to-abate sectors. As world leaders negotiate at the UN’s Climate Change Conference COP28 in the UAE, clean energy pioneers Masdar and VERBUND Green Hydrogen GmbH moved forward ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Modern Pentathlon Federation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with its Saudi counterpart to promote and develop the sport in the two brotherly countries. The agreement also facilitates the exchange of expertise and knowledge transfer across various fields. The MoU was signed by Dr Huda Al Matroushi, President of the UAE Modern Pentathlon ...

ABU DHABI / WAM HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, discussed developments in the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and their humanitarian repercussions on a call with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan stressed the importance of strengthening the international community’s efforts to end extremism, tensions, and ...

DUBAI / WAM Dubai Municipality and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) have signed an agreement on the sides of the UN Climate Conference (COP 28) to cooperate in a project to generate electricity from biogases extracted from the landfill in Muhaisnah 5. The signing supports Dubai’s leading sustainability practices and supports the realisation of the UAE Net Zero Strategy ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Presidential Court, on Thursday met with Dr Maeen Abdulmalik, Prime Minister of Yemen, on the sidelines of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), which is being held at Expo City Dubai. The meeting discussed UAE-Yemen relations and ways to ...

DUBAI / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, has announced Prof Fadel Adib, Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the winner of the first Great Arab Minds (GAM) award in the engineering and technology category, in recognition of his remarkable contributions and inventions in wireless ...

DUBAI / WAM Expo City Dubai continues its new mission to inspire the next generation of students, innovators, and change-makers with inspiring journeys rich in workshops and unforgettable lessons as part of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28). Schools seized the opportunity to organise trips full of exploration and adventure to learn new cognitive concepts about the climate summit ...

DUBAI / WAM Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) hosted the twelfth COP28 UAE Changemakers Majlis in the Actionist Hub in the Green Zone at COP28 on Thursday. Bringing together speakers from diverse backgrounds such as architecture, design, planning, policy, energy, academia and research sectors, the Majlis discussed some of the key characteristics that would define sustainable cities of ...

DUBAI / WAM The Net Zero Nuclear Summit kicked off on Thursday in Dubai, as part of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28). The event is being held on December 7-8 and is hosted by leaders of the Net Zero Nuclear initiative, which calls for unprecedented collaboration between government and industry to at least triple global nuclear capacity to ...

ABU DHABI/ WAM PureHealth Holding PJSC, the largest healthcare platform in the Middle East, has confirmed robust interest in its Initial Public Offering (IPO), on the first day of the subscription period. Farhan Malik, Founder and Managing Director of PureHealth, said, “We have seen an overwhelmingly strong demand for the IPO as it is fully subscribed on the opening day. ...