Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has hosted a Youth Circle session entitled Youth and Sustainability. The session is part of the Youth Circles initiative organised under the directives of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to pay attention to the next generation and learn their concepts, views and solutions for challenges. This will assist the government to provide a much better environment to understand their dreams and goals, and enable them to play a key function in the UAE's advancement.

The Youth Circle was organised at the Reading is Positive Energy exhibition at Zabeel Park. It was attended by HE Shamma bint Sohail Faris Al Mazrouei, Minister of State for Youth Affairs, HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, and a variety of DEWA's younger staff. The young men and women actively took part in the session which went over the role of young people in the sustainability of resources. They enriched the conversations by presenting constructive concepts connected to the function of youths in accomplishing the sustainable development of the UAE.

" The UAE is a young nation and its leadership depend on the youth in building the future. The Youth Circles is one of the tools adopted by the government to attain this goal as it focuses on the most important problems for the future.

" Sustainability is not the obligation of the government alone. Each one of us is accountable to support the UAE's efforts to carry out sustainability programmes.

Al Mazrouei thanked DEWA for organising the Youth Circle, and said that the leadership and the government are hearing the ideas and recommendations of the next generation, where they will be implemented with the active joint participation of the government, the next generation and society as a whole.

The Minister contacted the general public and private sectors to organise Youth Circles to meet young workers and hear them and change their concepts and energy into useful programmes and innovative solutions for the challenges they will face.

Al Tayer thanked Al Mazrouei and the Emirates Youth Council for choosing DEWA as the very first government organisation in the UAE to host the Youth Circles. He also applauded DEWA's young personnel who took part in the Youth Circle.

DEWA makes every effort to actively take part in efforts involving the youth, both in DEWA, and in society in general. This is achieved by encouraging our youth to actively take part in various government and personal organisations in Dubai, and seek employment among all sustainability sectors, through positive, while working to improve the growth and success of Dubai and the UAE across all areas," stated Al Tayer.

" DEWA adds to the sustainability of Dubai in while focusing on the 3 main aspects of environmental sustainability, social and cost-effective sustainability in the energy, water, and environmental sectors, and social services. It implements massive projects that contribute to achieving the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to make Dubai a worldwide centre for clean energy and green economy, to enhance Dubai's overall power output from clean energy sources to 7% by 2020, 25% by 2030 and 75% by 2050,.".

DEWA aims to accomplish this through the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the largest single-site project to generate electrical power from solar power on the planet. It will produce 5,000 megawatts (MW) by 2030. The solar park will help in reducing 6.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions every year.

" Organising the Youth Circle to go over young people's efforts in the sustainability of resources, emphasises our recognition of the essential role of the UAE youth in promoting the sustainability of ecological resources. Today's youth are tomorrow's leaders and the foundation of the sustainable advancement.

The Youth Circle saw worthwhile discussions on sustainability. Subjects discussed by DEWA's young workers consisted of the function of youth in spreading awareness and best sustainability practices in the media and social media, producing brief videos on sustainability and including them in light home entertainment programs.