DUBAI: Dr Amna bint Abdullah Al Dahak Al Shamsi, Minister of Local weather Change and the Surroundings, at this time affirmed that extending the ‘Yr of Sustainability’ into 2024, as introduced by President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, displays the nation’s dedication to embedding sustainability throughout all sectors and instil these practices within the behaviour of society and future generations.
The purpose is to construct on the UAE’s achievements on this area and enhance its contribution to confronting world local weather challenges and defending the planet. This initiative builds on the success of COP28 and the historic UAE Consensus.
Dr Al Dahak emphasised that His Highness’s assertion serves as a strong incentive for the Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings, which led nationwide efforts for COP28, to proceed working with related authorities and interesting the neighborhood in direction of attaining Web Zero by 2050.
On the twenty seventh Nationwide Surroundings Day, held beneath the theme “Collectively for a Sustainable Native Product,” Dr Al Dahak urged collaboration amongst varied stakeholders from the general public, non-public sectors and the neighborhood to proceed to guard the surroundings and preserve sources. She additionally reiterated the significance of supporting native merchandise and elevating consciousness about remodeling our meals techniques to turn into extra sustainable, resilient, and regionally sourced.
On Nationwide Surroundings Day, the UAE renews its dedication to confronting the challenges going through our planet and reaffirms its dedication to construct on the legacy and environmental stewardship of the UAE’s Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Attaining a sustainable meals provide requires innovation, collaboration, and dialogue with crop and livestock farmers, in addition to fisheries. The Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings helps drive these conversations and is supporting people spearheading the event and sustainability of the nation’s native produce.
Dr Al Dahak praised the work of those teams, saying, “On Nationwide Surroundings Day, let’s improve collaboration, and have interaction in significant dialogues with farmers, livestock farmers, and fishermen, who’re the spine of the safety of meals we’ve established within the UAE. We should remove obstacles, enabling them to contribute successfully to boosting our native merchandise.”
She added, “From the meals we eat to the merchandise we buy and the water we use, each alternative influences our surroundings. Whereas our meals techniques tackle humanity’s elementary wants, in addition they contribute to one-third of world greenhouse fuel emissions.”
Dr Al Dahak urged all stakeholders, together with public and governmental our bodies, related organizations, and the neighborhood, to unite in championing native merchandise within the UAE, empowering these main us in direction of this purpose.
This yr’s theme will deal with partaking with native producers, and the neighborhood to make clear the significance of bringing collectively all stakeholders and the neighborhood to extend home meals manufacturing and consumption.
Sustainable native produce performs an important position in selling neighborhood and environmental well being. Choosing native merchandise not solely ensures sustainable entry to high quality and nutritious meals for individuals within the UAE, however it additionally reduces emissions and actively contributes to the expansion of native companies and the neighborhood’s financial prosperity.
This yr’s Nationwide Surroundings Day builds on the success of COP28, held within the UAE final yr, the place meals techniques sat on the coronary heart of negotiations and local weather progress.
Throughout COP28, over 159 Heads of State and Authorities, representing a mixed inhabitants of over 6.2 billion individuals, endorsed the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Methods and Local weather Motion’. The Declaration acknowledges the potential of agriculture and meals techniques to drive modern responses to local weather change, and guarantee secure, enough, inexpensive, and nutritious meals for all.
The nation’s Web Zero by 2050 Technique was launched previous to the beginning of COP28. It set out a plan for a way the nation will construct on the momentum created by its Third Replace to the Second Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs), transferring from 40 % emission discount by 2030, to Web Zero by 2050.
MOCCAE considers it crucial that alongside the mixing of innovation and expertise into our meals techniques, the complete provide chain works collaboratively to make sure we produce, supply, eat, and get rid of meals sustainably.
Nationwide Surroundings Day actions starting at this time will proceed by to World Surroundings Day on 5 June.
The purpose is to construct on the UAE’s achievements on this area and enhance its contribution to confronting world local weather challenges and defending the planet. This initiative builds on the success of COP28 and the historic UAE Consensus.
Dr Al Dahak emphasised that His Highness’s assertion serves as a strong incentive for the Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings, which led nationwide efforts for COP28, to proceed working with related authorities and interesting the neighborhood in direction of attaining Web Zero by 2050.
On the twenty seventh Nationwide Surroundings Day, held beneath the theme “Collectively for a Sustainable Native Product,” Dr Al Dahak urged collaboration amongst varied stakeholders from the general public, non-public sectors and the neighborhood to proceed to guard the surroundings and preserve sources. She additionally reiterated the significance of supporting native merchandise and elevating consciousness about remodeling our meals techniques to turn into extra sustainable, resilient, and regionally sourced.
On Nationwide Surroundings Day, the UAE renews its dedication to confronting the challenges going through our planet and reaffirms its dedication to construct on the legacy and environmental stewardship of the UAE’s Founding Father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Attaining a sustainable meals provide requires innovation, collaboration, and dialogue with crop and livestock farmers, in addition to fisheries. The Ministry of Local weather Change and Surroundings helps drive these conversations and is supporting people spearheading the event and sustainability of the nation’s native produce.
Dr Al Dahak praised the work of those teams, saying, “On Nationwide Surroundings Day, let’s improve collaboration, and have interaction in significant dialogues with farmers, livestock farmers, and fishermen, who’re the spine of the safety of meals we’ve established within the UAE. We should remove obstacles, enabling them to contribute successfully to boosting our native merchandise.”
She added, “From the meals we eat to the merchandise we buy and the water we use, each alternative influences our surroundings. Whereas our meals techniques tackle humanity’s elementary wants, in addition they contribute to one-third of world greenhouse fuel emissions.”
Dr Al Dahak urged all stakeholders, together with public and governmental our bodies, related organizations, and the neighborhood, to unite in championing native merchandise within the UAE, empowering these main us in direction of this purpose.
This yr’s theme will deal with partaking with native producers, and the neighborhood to make clear the significance of bringing collectively all stakeholders and the neighborhood to extend home meals manufacturing and consumption.
Sustainable native produce performs an important position in selling neighborhood and environmental well being. Choosing native merchandise not solely ensures sustainable entry to high quality and nutritious meals for individuals within the UAE, however it additionally reduces emissions and actively contributes to the expansion of native companies and the neighborhood’s financial prosperity.
This yr’s Nationwide Surroundings Day builds on the success of COP28, held within the UAE final yr, the place meals techniques sat on the coronary heart of negotiations and local weather progress.
Throughout COP28, over 159 Heads of State and Authorities, representing a mixed inhabitants of over 6.2 billion individuals, endorsed the ‘COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Meals Methods and Local weather Motion’. The Declaration acknowledges the potential of agriculture and meals techniques to drive modern responses to local weather change, and guarantee secure, enough, inexpensive, and nutritious meals for all.
The nation’s Web Zero by 2050 Technique was launched previous to the beginning of COP28. It set out a plan for a way the nation will construct on the momentum created by its Third Replace to the Second Nationally Decided Contributions (NDCs), transferring from 40 % emission discount by 2030, to Web Zero by 2050.
MOCCAE considers it crucial that alongside the mixing of innovation and expertise into our meals techniques, the complete provide chain works collaboratively to make sure we produce, supply, eat, and get rid of meals sustainably.
Nationwide Surroundings Day actions starting at this time will proceed by to World Surroundings Day on 5 June.
