Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Masdar City’s Eco-Villa, a pilot project incorporating water and energy-saving technologies, has been completed and a UAE national family will soon live in the prototype sustainable dwelling, it was announced on Thursday at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2017. The 405 square-metre Eco-Villa is the first villa to achieve a 4 Pearl rating according to …

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Al-Reyadah, the joint venture between the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) and Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s Future Energy Company, was the focus of attention at the World Future Summit (WFES). Discussing the increasingly important role of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, the forum was told that CCS operations like Al-Reyadah …

  CIA Director John Brennan’s biggest concern the past few years hasn’t been Russian hacking, or even the wars in the Middle East, but what he calls “modernization” of the agency. In an effort to improve performance of this notoriously siloed organization, Brennan moved to fuse operations (the agency’s vaunted spies) and analysis (its less glamorous but no less essential …