The UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MoCCAE) has announced that 21 companies in the UAE have committed to the ministry’s Climate-Responsible Companies Pledge.
Signatories include stakeholders from energy-intensive sectors such as steel, cement, and aluminium.
The companies have pledged to combat climate change by measuring and reporting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a transparent manner, developing science-based plans to reduce their carbon footprint, and sharing these plans with the UAE government to contribute to net-zero by 2050 targets.
According to MoCCAE, the pledge is designed to increase the engagement of the private sector in the country’s decarbonisation efforts.
The companies include:
- Beeah
- Emerson
- Emirates Nature-WWF
- Majid al-Futtaim Group
- Standard Chartered Bank
- HSBC
- Masdar
- Emirates Global Aluminium
- Emirates Steel Arkan Group
- Aldar Properties
- Emirates Environmental Group
- Strata
- Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat)
- Chalhoub Group
- Pure Harvest
- AESG
- Taka Solutions
- Lafarge Emirates Cement
- EY
- EV Lab
- TotalEnergies
The signatories have further pledged to factor in climate change mitigation and adaptation as core values and principles of their businesses and operational models, and adopt an all-inclusive approach that engages youth, women, and vulnerable segments of society in developing their net-zero plans.
The launch took place as part of the fourth installment of the National Dialogue for Climate Ambition (NDCA), a series of sector-specific assemblies aimed at establishing a national sustainability outlook and informing the country’s pursuit of climate neutrality.
The fourth NDCA took place under the theme ‘Roadmap to achieve net zero in the hospitality sector’.
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