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Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has saved more than 1,312 megawatts of electricity last year, which represents a total value of AED3.4 billion and marked a record number of fresh water savings, which amounted to more than 349 million imperial gallons by the end of 2020. The co ..
Dubai-based Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower), a leading district cooling services provider, reaffirmed its full and complete commitment to support the UAE’s global climate interests.
Ebony Holland is a senior researcher in IIED s Natural Resources and Climate Change groups, and Paul Steele is IIED s chief economist
Biodiversity loss, climate change and rising inequality are the major crises we need to address in this super year (Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Biodiversity loss is a major and escalating challenge. It’s not just scientists and ecologists that are worried – businesspeople and economists are too. In 2021, the World Economic Forum (WEF) ranked biodiversity loss as a global ‘existential threat’, alongside weapons of mass destruction and state collapse.
Another WEF report (PDF) found that US$44 trillion of economic value generation – over half the world’s total GDP – is moderately or highly dependent on nature and its services. These same services (which include food, clean water, flood protection and climate regulation) are also critical for our survival.