Dubai, UAE, 27th November 2016: The Secretary-General of the United Natin, HE Ban Ki-Moon applauded the insightful vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai for sustaining sustainability and global green economic situation and introducing the World Environment-friendly Economic situation Organisation (WGEO) with its permanent headquarters in Dubai and applauded the UAE for signing up with WGEO as its first member.

In a meeting with HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Chairman of World Green Economy Organisation(WGEO), the Secretary-General of the United Nations HE Ban Ki-Moon, was oriented on the key accomplishments and joint teamwork advancement between the United Nations and WGEO.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer has specified that WGEO which was launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the 3rd World Green Economic climate Summit 2016 in Dubai, will certainly sustain the UAE Vision 2021 to be amongst the best nations worldwide by 2021, the UAE Green Economy Method that was introduced by HH under the motif 'A Green Economy for Sustainable Development' to boost Dubai's setting as a global resources for Green Economy in addition to the goals of Dubai Strategy 2021 to achieve additional joy in the culture."

"Signed up with by the UAE as its initial member country, WGEO will support the implementation of the Paris Agreement on environment, and boost global understanding on climate change to boost the shift in the direction of an green economic situation. WGEO will certainly also have a leading and brand-new role to promote the degrees of green economic climate through dialogue, partnership and exchange of expertise amongst nations, public and private sectors, corporates, UN organisations, banking organizations and civil culture establishments to attain the purposes of green economy and serve as a system to present brand-new options for climate adjustment, sustainable energy and various other challenges facing water and atmosphere around the world", he added.

"Launching WGEO right now mirrors the relentless efforts to accomplish the Sustainable Advancement Goals laid out in the United Nations 2030 Program for Sustainable Development. WGEO will certainly likewise play a crucial function in mitigating environment adjustment, as it acts as a mechanism for producing brand-new options for lasting power, water and various other ecological challenges, thereby lowering the threat of eco-friendly economy financial investments, and supporting worldwide participation in innovation, modern technology and financing. It will offer technical assistance to nations which can take advantage of the UAE's and the other nations green economy design, as well as accepting other nations whose economic situations call for growth and varied green approaches for the future," he clarified.

"The fruitful collaboration with the United Nations is one of the key action in our seek to strengthen our march for lasting advancement and exchange of know-how and experience with other nations to attain our ambitions for a better future as our leadership has a sensible vision to predict the future with ambitious facilities tasks in clean power that is very important in achieving balancing between growth and environment to guarantee the generations ahead a clean, healthy and safe setting. Power is among the key elements for sustainable development and the base for positive environment that urges and enhances collaboration, engagement, innovation and creative thinking," he added.

HE Al Tayer has actually highlighted key achievements, efforts and jobs of Dubai. He added that Dubai has launched Dubai Clean Power Strategy 2050 to supply 7% of Dubai's power by 2020, 25% by 2030, and 75% by 2050. The strategy consists of lots of initiatives including Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park which is the biggest single-site solar park worldwide, with an intended capacity of 5,000 megawatts by 2030 and an expected investment of USD13 billion.

The Emirate of Dubai is dealing with the decrease of carbon emissions in line with Dubai Carbon Reduction Strategy to minimize carbon exhausts by 16% by 2021 and the application of the energy and water demand side management approach to improve Dubai's setting as the city with the most affordable carbon fingerprint globally and to decrease need to 30% by 2030. In addition, Etihad Energy Services (Etihad Esco) was established to optimise using power and to develop a market for energy efficiency and to renew greater than 30 thousand existing structure in Dubai.

HE also emphasised on tasks for increasing performance and reliability in generating energy and desalinating water such as raising productivity techniques without utilizing added gas, enhancing the performance of central air conditioning systems, power conservation programmes, and water desalination making use of solar energy and Dubai smart campaigns consisting of 'Shams Dubai' to motivate houses' and buildings' proprietors to install photovoltaic panels to generate power, and smart applications and meters campaign to facilitate the connection of solution and action time, usage conserving, the Green Battery charger to develop the infrastructure and build 100 electrical car charging stations around Dubai.

"DEWA's Lasting Building is the initial UAE building and biggest federal government structure in the world to obtain a platinum score for green structures from Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). The structure has a 660 KW solar power terminal and uses 66% much less energy and 48% much less water compared to various other structures. On the various other hand, DEWA plans to develop its new headquarters called Al-Sheraa (sail) which will certainly be the highest, biggest, and most intelligent net Absolutely no Energy federal government structure worldwide. The brand-new building will certainly have over a million square feet, over 200,000 square feet of land in the heart of the Cultural Village in Al Jadaf", he wrapped up.