The mayor of Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Anderson Ferreira, is interested in going to WETEX, an environment exhibition in the emirate. He wants to attract investment in solar power.
Browsing: Sustainability
Ricardo Salles, minister of Environment, had appointments with ministers and businessmen in the Arab country. They started talks to expand cooperation in the field.
The Zayed Sustainability Prize is awarded by the Abu Dhabi government to projects in five categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water, and Global High Schools.
A documentary in short episodes will showcase the emirate’s natural heritage. The premiere date is yet to be released.
Chamber will replace plastic materials used internally, starting a series of measures for sustainability.
The country will grant owners of electric cars temporary licenses until procedures related to licensing of the vehicles are regularized and will manufacture electric buses.
Award that recognizes sustainable projects in different areas is in its 11th edition and has open registrations until May 30. Lunch gathered government authorities, diplomats, entrepreneur, teachers, and students at the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
The emirate’s Hamdan Centre and the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies announced an initiative designed to help said agencies find external funding for sustainable development efforts.
Mohammed Bin Zayed Fund from the UAE is going to sponsor project developed by Federal University of Santa Catarina.
The country was set to host the UN Climate Conference summit next year, but backtracked due to ‘fiscal and budget constraints’ and to the ‘transition process to the newly-elected administration’.
The company’s researchers developed a technology that speeds up the breakdown of the polymer material that the bottles are made of.
The water and energy exhibition ended this Thursday. The Brazilian pavilion, set up and managed by the Arab Chamber, was praised by the event’s organizers.
At the Arab Chamber’s stand in the Wetex show, the Brazilian beverage company is promoting its Ama bottled water, whose revenues it funnels into water resource management projects in Brazil’s semi-arid areas.
The country wishes to host the UN Climate Change Conference in November of next year.

