Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA) has actually been invited by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to be part of the Criteria Pioneers programme, which combines the leading global organisations in sustainability, to be amongst just 100 organisations from all over the world to execute GRI's new worldwide criteria before it ends up being obligatory by the end of June 2018.

This invitation even more emphasizes DEWA's function in the execution of the smart leadership's directives towards achieving sustainability and enhancing DEWA's leading setting amongst leading global organisations in sustainability reporting.

"Joining the Standards Pioneers program affirms our dedication to execute the vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to boost government performance based on global finest methods. This action also boosts our leading setting in implementing the current requirements of preparing and releasing sustainability records while also reinforcing Dubai's leading global setting. We are committed to sustain worldwide initiatives in sustainability which is an important part of our technique and society to come to be a lasting and innovative global organisation; in accordance with the UAE Vision 2021, and the goals of the Dubai Strategic Plan 2021 to end up being smart, incorporated, connected and sustainable with clean, healthy and balanced and lasting ecological components," said HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA.

"We will define our efficiency and techniques in the field of sustainability to our companions, related authorities and stakeholders, to make sure that we all function according to a green approach that depends upon preserving all-natural and environmental resources, considering all the pertinent social, cultural and economic elements. DEWA has actually achieved global outcomes on the Sustainability Society Indicator. DEWA has actually made considerable progress in 2016, getting to 88.7% as compared with 85% in 2015, which not only reflects a boost of 3.7% but also surpasses the global average of other worldwide foundations that executed the survey," Al Tayer added.

DEWA has joined GRI's GOLD community, that includes varied business and organisations across business, consultancies, civil society, academic community, labour, public and intergovernmental agencies that are thought about GRI's core advocates. The community works as a global platform for DEWA to obtain the most up to date advancements and developments in sustainability and prepare records, while constructing critical partnerships with its equivalents that share shared goals in boosting sustainability coverage throughout all elements.

GRI is a global independent organisation that aids organisations, governments and other organisations to recognize and connect the effect of business on essential concerns such as climate change, civils rights, corruption and several others. GRI gives the world's most commonly made use of requirements on sustainability coverage and disclosure, enabling companies, governments, and civil society organisations to earn better choices based upon trusted and reasonable information.