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 CSR in Saudi Arabia: Far Behind Or Another Path?     No Rating 172  Views

 CSR in Saudi Arabia: Far Behind Or Another Path?

09.06.13
While Western companies struggle to develop and communicate their own ethical codes of conduct, Saudi companies are already working within a specific cultural and religious environment that permeates all of society, including business. In the Middle East, CSR is largely characterized by a charity mindset, and it is easy for More...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority Launches Carbon Footprint Campaign     No Rating 172  Views

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority Launches Carbon Footprint Campaign

12.05.13
Dubai residents will soon be told how much of carbon emissions they are contributing to through their energy consumption - whether they want to know it or not.The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has decided to list facts and figures about how much carbon emissions each customer’s monthly energy More...
Kuwait Energy: Green Wall Documentary     No Rating 206  Views

Kuwait Energy: Green Wall Documentary

31.03.13
Kuwait Energy, one of the fastest growing Middle Eastern independent oil and gas exploration and production companies, has announced that it has extended its support to the Kuwait Oasis Team in Kuwait’s largest voluntary environmental initiative. “The Kuwait Green Wall” project aims to plant 315,000 trees on a stretch of More...
Masdar Head Now a Minister of State     No Rating 189  Views

Masdar Head Now a Minister of State

31.03.13
By appointing the Chief Executive Officer of the country’s leading renewable energy initiative as Minister of State, the oil and gas rich United Arab Emirates sends a very clear message to its own people and the world that they are serious about cleaning up their overall energy portfolio. As deputy More...
Hilton Hotels to Share Food Waste in Hungry Egypt     No Rating 484  Views

Hilton Hotels to Share Food Waste in Hungry Egypt

11.11.12
Hilton Worldwide has launched a pilot program to distribute surplus food to community organizations that feed the poor in Egypt. The hotel chain has teamed up with Feeding America and The Global FoodBanking Network to collect food that would otherwise be thrown away from cafes, restaurants, and conferences and distribute More...
Jordan Mandates Domestic Solar Water Heating     No Rating 415  Views

Jordan Mandates Domestic Solar Water Heating

04.11.12
Jordan passes new building codes requiring solar water heaters on all new commercial and residential buildings. It’s about time: Regulations come into effect in April 2013 and make solar water heaters obligatory for every new residence (including apartments) sized 150 m2 or greater in Jordan where there is ample sun. More...
Green Recycling Machines for Light Bulbs and Batteries in Sharjah     No Rating 345  Views

Green Recycling Machines for Light Bulbs and Batteries in Sharjah

04.11.12
You can get vending machines for the strangest things in the Arab Gulf – even for gold bars. But thinking in a greener direction, the United Arab Emirates is the second country in the world to adopt light bulb and used battery recycling machines to the public. Five reverse vending More...
Abu Dhabi’s Shams 100 MW CSP Solar Power Plant to Switch on … Soon     No Rating 572  Views

Abu Dhabi’s Shams 100 MW CSP Solar Power Plant to Switch on … Soon

21.10.12
Abu Dhabi’s push into clean energy is to get a massive boost by the end of the year with the Shams 1 Concentrated Solar Power plant going live in the emirate and will begin supplying solar power to residents in the city. Commissioned by MASDAR, Spain’s Abengoa Solar and France’s More...
Holy Mecca Will Be Saudi’s First Solar City     No Rating 505  Views

Holy Mecca Will Be Saudi’s First Solar City

21.10.12
Saudi Arabia’s government has confirmed that it will develop and build a $640 million solar power plant in the holy city of Mecca. It continues the country’s recent talks of bolstering its clean energy sector and with the holy pilgrimage of Hajj beginning; the government believes this is the best More...
Abu Dhabi Turns to Natural Gas Green Transport     No Rating 446  Views

Abu Dhabi Turns to Natural Gas Green Transport

27.09.12
The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) has converted 20 vehicles in its fleet of 500 to run on compressed natural gas (CNG).  It’s part of their commitment to reduce harmful emissions and their press release says they’ll convert about 20% percent of the total fleet to CNG by the More...
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