Dubai budgets Dh74.5B to adopt a new integrated strategy to enhance SDGs

The Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced these latest strategies on Twitter, on Wednesday.

On January 27, the Dubai authority has approved an integrated strategy to enhance environmental sustainability in Dubai. Reportedly, the strategy will be implemented from 2021 to 2041.

The project has been capped at Dh 74.5 billion. Of the total amount, Dh 70.5 billion would be raised with the help of private sector partners.

The decision was taken during the meeting at Expo 2020 Dubai.

The Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council of Dubai, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, announced these latest strategies on Twitter, on Wednesday.

While briefing the integrated strategies, Sheikh Hamdan she posted a series of tweets and wrote, “We looked at our 2021 successes and discussed future strategies during the TEC of Dubai meeting at Dubai Expo 2020. Due to our achievement in defeating the epidemic and the beginning of Dubai Expo 2020, Dubai’s GDP growth rate in the first nine months of 2021 reached 6.3 percent.”

“We also adopted the Integrated Waste Management Strategy 2021-2041, which has a budget of AED 74.5 billion and a direct contribution of AED 70.5 billion from the private sector. Our goal is to promote waste management, recycling, and energy conversion technologies,” he further mentioned.

He added, “During the gathering, we endorsed an incorporated procedure to upgrade natural supportability from 2021-2041, with a spending plan of 74.5 billion dirhams, of which 70.5 billion dirhams is in association with the private area, which remembers activities to oversee squander and empower development for changing over it into energy… We anticipate introducing a worldwide model of maintainability from Dubai.”

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