This past fall, one of the busiest investors in climate technology wasn’t a blue-chip venture capital firm or a specialist decarbonisation fund. It was a Swiss conglomerate that makes circuit breakers, light switches and electric car chargers. ABB Technology Ventures, the investment arm of ABB, was among the most active financiers that collectively put $10.7 billion into climate tech […]
The human cost of failure to check climate change will be so unimaginably enormous that top WHO official Maria Neira is reluctant to be drawn into details. But the little she can reveal is harrowing. “It is not just about polar bears,” Ms Neira, WHO’s deputy director for environment, climate change and health, told The National on […]
At 120 kilometres across, Thwaites, the so-called doomsday glacier, functions as a plug holding back the mass of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If — or when — the glacier melts, it will result in a world sea level rise of more than half a metre. But the worst would be yet to come. The […]
Abu Dhabi: For Egypt and the UAE, as hosts of COP27 and COP28 UAE respectively, the renewed urgency in how the two nations approach climate change has reaffirmed their resounding commitment to encourage closer cooperation and generate greater climate progress. As part of concerted efforts to work together and strengthen global climate action, the UAE […]
NEW YORK, 20th September, 2022 (WAM) — The UAE announced today the establishment of the UAE Independent Climate Change Accelerators (UICCA) during New York Climate Week. The UICCA is a non-partisan, climate action entity that will bring together members of the public and private sector, including academic institutions and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to drive the […]
DUBAI, 13th September, 2022 (WAM) — The UAE Climate Council, headed by Mariam bint Mohammed Almheiri, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, discussed priorities on the country’s climate agenda at its first meeting since its establishment, held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE). Almheiri said the current acceleration […]
ABU DHABI, 7th September, 2022 (WAM) — Developed world should take urgent action to cooperate and help countries that observe the repercussions of climate change overcome all difficulties, the chief of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) said. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Francesco La Camera, Director-General of IRENA, said that […]
CAIRO, 6th September, 2022 (WAM) — Regional authorities in Egypt, the host country of the 2022 UN climate conference (COP27), are ramping up initiatives designed to improve the country’s environmental credentials, and speed up its transition to a low carbon economy. The event will begin on 4 November, in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm […]
DUBAI, 29th August, 2022 (WAM) — The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) today launched the UAE Climate-Responsible Companies Pledge. The pledge aims to increase the engagement of the private sector in the country’s decarbonisation drive, in line with the UAE Net Zero 2050 Strategic Initiative. The pledge forms the basis of future collaborations […]
Climate change goals must be sustainable if governments are to stick to them, the UAE’s environment minister said, at a time when the energy crisis has led to a scramble for new sources of oil and gas. Mariam Al Mheiri, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, said there must be a realism about the transition to clean energy. […]
