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Volume 41 Issue 5
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OAPEC Member Countries
UAE
On 19 April 2015, the UAE Ministry of Energy
organized a workshop on greenhouse emissions. In
his speech during the workshop, Undersecretary of
the Ministry of Energy and UAE’s representative
at OAPEC Executive Bureau, HE Dr Mattar
Hamed Al Niyadi, highlighted the UAE’s national
and international efforts on reducing greenhouse
emissions from various sectors, in a bid to protect
the environment. Al Niyadi also explained the UAE
Vision 2021, launched by Vice President and Prime
Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to assure the UAE is ranked
among the most developed countries in the world by the Golden
Jubilee of the UAE Federation.
Al Niyadi referred to the efforts on preparing national reports in
line with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. He noted that
although the UAE is not bound to reduce greenhouse emissions
according to the UNFCCC, the country spared no effort in facing
the impacts of climate change because the UAE believes that it
requires the joint efforts of all countries. He concluded his speech
by saying that the inventory project is the responsibility of all not
just one governmental body and requires the joint efforts of public
and private sectors for plans and initiatives in this field.
For her part, HE Engineer Fatima Al Shamsi, Assistant
Undersecretary for Electricity, Clean Energy and Desalination of
Water at the Ministry of Energy, noted that in 2014 the ministry
prepared the first inventory report on greenhouse emissions, which
helped identifying the main sources of greenhouse emissions in the
UAE. She appreciated the efforts of all institutions who worked on
preparing this first report.
HE Dr Mattar Hamed Al Niyadi
Huge UAE Efforts to Contribute to Reducing
Greenhouse Emissions