Green recovery a core priority for UAE in post-COVID-19 era
5 hours ago Ministers and top officials during the first meeting of the UAE Circular Economy Council. The UAE Circular Economy Council met recently for the first time since it was established in February 2021. Dr Abdullah Belhaif Al Nuaimi, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, presided over the meeting.
The Council approved the formation of a joint committee of experts from all member entities to develop an implementation plan for the UAE Circular Economy Policy 2021-2031. Chaired by the Ministry of Economy, the committee will convene monthly to review the progress made.
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March 23, 2021
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Here’s how governments can mobilize technology for the SDGs
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This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum.
Author: Celine Herweijer, Global Leader, Innovation and Sustainability, PwC & Antonia Gawel, Deputy Head of PGPG; Head of Circular Economy and Innovation; ExCom Member, World Economic Forum& Jessica Shannon Global Government & Public Sector Leader, PwC
COVID-19 has shown the central role that governments can play in addressing society-wide challenges.
In 2021, leaders across the public sphere need to integrate technology solutions into the heart of wider rebuilding and recovering efforts.
DRC Minister of Mines Joins Cobalt Action Partnership
Published 12-23-20
Submitted by Responsible Business Alliance
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23, 2020 /CSRwire/ – The Responsible Minerals Initiative (RMI), as the Partnership Lead of the Cobalt Action Partnership (CAP), today with CAP Implementing Partners announced that His Excellency Professor Willy Kitobo Samsoni, National Minister of Mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), is joining the CAP Steering Committee. This step demonstrates a significant step to link the global desire for responsible cobalt supply chains with the important commitment of DRC government actors.
The CAP, an initiative in collaboration with the Global Battery Alliance, was formalized in May 2020 as a broad-based and multi-sectoral, public-private coalition of organizations. CAP promotes the engagement and commitment of companies towards sustainable and inclusive cobalt value chains, and aims to foster transparent, evidence-based and respons
UAE and Canada reconfirm support to circular economy
23 Dec 2020 Top officials during the virtual meeting. The virtual UAE-Canada High Level Event on Circular Economy was organised by the UAE Circular Economy Council in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, to showcase examples of Emirati and Canadian leadership in the circular economy.
The event was chaired by Dr. Thani Bin Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of State for Foreign Trade and Peter Schiefke, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, and moderated by Ms. Antonia Gawel, Head of Circular Economy & Innovation, World Economic Forum.
Dr. Thani underlined the UAE’s commitment to become one of the most circular economies in the world. The UAE is the first signatory of the World Economic Forum’s Scale360° Partnership which brings together global partners to fast-track the shift towards a circular economy by embracing Fourth Industrial Revolution