Dubai Electricity and Water (DEWA) arranged a workshop entitled, 'Sustainable Development Goals' together with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership(CISL), an institution within the University of Cambridge. The workshop presented the 17 goals of lasting development adopted by the United Nations for the year 2030, specifically when it come to sustainability and climate adjustment. The workshop supports DEWA's commitment to advertise the Emirate's leading global setting and the nationwide goals for a sustainable future.

The workshop highlighted the significance of embracing a lasting activity version to allow the business community to add in the initiatives to achieve the 17 lasting growth goals and their going along with 169 objectives, in the UN Sustainable Advancement Plan 2030, with a concentrate on checking out the very best methods to support the growth of calculated purposes. The workshop examined opportunities available for DEWA to enhance the essential function of Dubai and the UAE in supporting global efforts to accomplish lasting development objectives, specifically in regards to energy, climate modification, sustainable consumption and production patterns.

HE Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer, MD and Chief Executive Officer of DEWA, revealed his honest thanks and appreciation to CISL for their constant and rewarding participation with DEWA in developing global management designs and advertising sustainability as a corporate and social society.

"At DEWA, we are aware of value of the UN's sustainable advancement goals 2030. According to the vision and instructions of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and our vision to become a lasting innovative world-class utility, we have led the way to adopt and add to achieving the sustainable advancement objectives. This workshop reinforces our cooperation with CISL in advertising sustainability and spreading its concepts amongst leading and managerial professionals, consisting of senior administration, first line leadership and professionals in sustainability, along with helping with a smooth exchange of experiences and best practices," claimed Al Tayer.

"We are certain that the following couple of years will certainly enable us to add and get over the negative impacts of climate adjustment and minimize global warming by reducing carbon discharges in collaboration with companions from the public and private sectors. This step intends to attain the objectives set forth in the Carbon Abatement Strategy 2021, which was launched by the Dubai Supreme Council of Power, to decrease carbon discharges in Dubai by 16% by 2021. The workshop is a strong motivation to DEWA's efforts to provide human resources with the required knowledge, to add properly to the accomplishment of sustainability to make certain a brighter future for generations to come. This is in line with the UAE Vision 2021 to develop a safe and lasting environment while accomplishing a balance between financial and social growth, and it also matches the goals of Dubai Plan 2021, to earn Dubai lasting with its resources, whose environmental elements are clean, healthy and balanced, and sustainable," wrapped up Al Tayer.

Cambridge University was founded in 1209 and is among the earliest and most prominent universities on the planet in the area of lives sciences, maths and physics. The University includes 31 universities and greater than 150 sections, schools and institutes, with over 19,000 students consisting of nearly 3,700 global trainees. CISL is an important part of this prestigious University for over 25 years, under the patronage of HRH Royal prince Charles, Prince of Wales. CISL collaborates with leading organizations and organisations from around the world, to construct the leadership capacities of individuals and establishments to meet sustainability and setting obstacles, by creating programmes, research study, policies, activity plans and methods, to assist leaders fight environment change.