With the sight and prensence of HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director& Chief Executive Officer of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), HE Khalifa Al Zaffin, Executive Chairman-Dubai Aviation City Corporation & Dubai South, HE Massimo Baggi, Ambassador of Switzerland to the UAE and Bahrain, Dr. Franco Vigliotti, Project Head and Dean of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in the Middle East, Marco Settembri, Executive Vice President Nestl S.A. and CEO Zone Europe, Middle East & North Africa, and Yves Manghardt, NestlMiddle East Chairman and CEO, the UAEs biggest ground-mounted private solar plant was propelled at Nestl Middle Easts Al Maha factory in Dubai.

The plant involves installing about 28,000 photovoltaic (PV) boards at the organization's three manufacturing sites, that will produce 10GWh of power per year disposing at least six million kilograms of CO2 outflows annually, the equivalent of annual emissions from 1,500 passenger cars or the vitality utilization of 800 homes*. The biggest sites at Al Maha will alone house 20,000 PV boards, creating 7.2GWh of power and taking out 4.5 million kilograms of CO2 for each year.

The solar plant is a piece of DEWAs Shams initiative which urges building owners to introduce PV panels and connects them to DEWAs grid.

I am satisfied to be here again at the Nestl Al Maha factory in Dubai South, to observe the collection of collaboration on maintainability between DEWA and Nestl. This is a genuine case of the constructive outcome of coordinated effort between the public and private sectors in inexhaustible and clean energy, which will have a constructive net impact on the nature as a whole locally and internationally, said Al Tayer. I value the Nestls close effort with DEWA to add to the accomplishments of the Shams Dubai initiative that we propelled on the side of the Smart Dubai initiative, declared by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to make Dubai the smartest and delight city in the world. Shams Dubai has achieved remarkable success since its launch in 2014, with 1348 solar systems connected to the electricity grid so far, with an absolute limit of 117MW.

Nestl is focused on managing assets for future generations through caring for water, defending the environment and following up on climate change. The solar plant in Dubai is a significant commitment toNestls worldwide desire to accomplish zero net ozone depleting substance outflows by 2050.We are grasping the most ambitious aim of the Paris Agreement** to restrict global temperature ascend to 1.5C, said Settembri.

We are resolved to keep on assuming a positive role in the Middle East and add to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With our scale, and our activities, we can make positive effectt in society, and be a force of good, said Manghardt.

One third of Nestls413factories in the world are already utilizing 100% sustainable power, and the organization will keep on expanding the use of vitality from inexhaustible sources. Nestl Middle East has since 2010 accomplished a 42% decrease in water withdrawal per ton of product, a 34% lessening in vitality utilization, and 28% decrease in ozone depleting substance emissions per ton of product, while its generation went up by 68%. The organization produces with zero waste for transfer at its food manufacturing destinations in the region.

What's more, research and multi-sectoral associations are being created to accomplish the objective reported by Nestl in 2018 to make 100% of the organizations packaging recyclable or re-usable by 2025, with the target that none of its packaging, including plastics, winds up in landfill or as litter. Recent examples includethe formation of the Nestl Institute of Packaging Science in Lausanne (Switzerland) to assess and grow new supportable packaging material and solutions as a team with academia, suppliers, startups, and others.

The company has effectively characterized category and product explicit manufacturing guides to guarantee only recyclable or reusable packaging is uilized by 2025.Nestl is additionally playing an active role in creating plastics accumulation, sorting and reusing plans over the world, through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) actions that are adding to industry alliances that intend to make circular economies inside the nations, recycling and reusing in a way that makes shared value for all included. In the Middle East, Nestl is accomplice of EPR Coalitions in Abu Dhabi and Jordan.