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Abu Dhabi / WAM Masdar City, the sustainable urban development in the UAE, is set to play a key role in the global green recovery from Covid-19 as it continues to add sustainability-focused innovation and technology companies. The number of companies in the city’s free zone increased 26 percent in 2020, indicating the important role of the city and its ...

NEW YORK / WAM At the UN General Assembly’s High-level dialogue on desertification, land degradation and drought, the UAE has underlined that protecting the environment must be a priority for the international community. “We only have one home, one shelter – Earth,” said Dr Abdullah Al Nuaimi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, through a video message. “Therefore, we all ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee has approved a pilot test of new scanners to identify potential Covid-19 cases at select locations in the emirate as part of efforts to further enhance the protection of public health and safety by using the most advanced technology. The state-of-the-art scanners add to existing precautionary measures, with ...

Dubai / WAM flydubai, the Dubai-based airline, has partnered with Alhosn, becoming the first airline to collaborate with the official UAE app for contact tracing and health testing related to Covid-19, to provide passengers with digital verification of Covid-19 medical records while travelling from the UAE. All flydubai passengers can now use the Alhosn app at check-in without having to ...

Bloomberg Seven of the European Union’s leading energy producers called on policymakers to agree to an ambitious and fast reform of the world’s largest carbon market in a bid to help investors in the transition to climate neutrality. Companies including Electricite de France SA, Statkraft AS and Fortum Oyj — which have big nuclear and hydropower fleets — want a ...

Bloomberg Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin concluded their first summit in the Swiss city of Geneva on Wednesday after about 2.5 hours of meetings, seeking to dial back tensions between the two former Cold War adversaries that have reached the highest level in years. The summit was substantially shorter than aides had predicted. US officials said they expected the ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s plan to conquer the Indian market with a locally assembled Google-powered smartphone is facing headwinds, with supply-chain disruptions and rising component prices suppressing production volumes, people familiar with the matter said. Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd originally envisioned sales in the hundreds of millions in the first years for the inexpensive device but now targets a small ...

Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg’s approval among some Facebook Inc employees has slipped, dislodging him from Glassdoor’s ranking of the Top 100 CEOs, a list he’s been on annually since 2013. Zuckerberg put on his game face to convince a skeptical Congress that his company’s ambitious plans for a cryptocurrency will benefit millions of poor and underbanked people around the world, and ...

Bloomberg Lordstown Motors Corp jumped after saying it has enough money to make its battery-powered trucks through May of next year, paring a record decline the previous day following the departure of two top executives. The automaker is actively raising additional funds and has reconfirmed orders for its debut vehicle, President Rich Schmidt said at an Automotive Press Association event ...

Bloomberg The first megawatts of electricity was expected to flow between Norway and the UK on Wednesday along the longest submarine power cable in the world. Once fully operational Britain is expected to import supplies of low carbon power on a regular basis. Tests on the 1,400-megawatt, 450-mile long cable will be complete in time to transport power from Norway’s ...