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A Middle East Centre for Sustainable Development has been established to encourage socially responsible business development in Dubai and other rapidly growing regional centres.
The centre, set up by Pacific Control Systems, a Dubai-based engineering design company, and EHS, Dubai’s regulatory and enforcement body responsible for environmental protection, will concentrate initially on the development of ‘green buildings’ and energy efficiency in the United Arab Emirates.
EHS expects this to ‘merely be the beginning’ as the centre becomes ‘a focal point’ for efforts to put business in the Middle East on a more sustainable footing. One aim will be to establish sustainability benchmarks for developers. Dubai’s ruler sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has decreed that all new buildings be built to ‘green’ standards from January.
More than US$100billion (£50m) is being invested in the development of Dubai within five years. UAE per capita emissions of greenhouse gas were 33.6 tonnes in 2003, compared to 19.8 tonnes in the US, according to UN figures.
The centre, set up by Pacific Control Systems, a Dubai-based engineering design company, and EHS, Dubai’s regulatory and enforcement body responsible for environmental protection, will concentrate initially on the development of ‘green buildings’ and energy efficiency in the United Arab Emirates.
EHS expects this to ‘merely be the beginning’ as the centre becomes ‘a focal point’ for efforts to put business in the Middle East on a more sustainable footing. One aim will be to establish sustainability benchmarks for developers. Dubai’s ruler sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has decreed that all new buildings be built to ‘green’ standards from January.
More than US$100billion (£50m) is being invested in the development of Dubai within five years. UAE per capita emissions of greenhouse gas were 33.6 tonnes in 2003, compared to 19.8 tonnes in the US, according to UN figures.
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