5. ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
UAE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
ARTICLE
THE RISE IN THE DEMAND FOR ENERYGY
Climate change is a harsh reality that requires action today, if we wish to preserve this world for our future generations.
The initiative to conserve our planet has to come from the leaders of all nations. We need to combat this issue with a top-down approach, where the policies are set in place by the government, and then trickled down into the economy.
ARTICLE BY Ameera Khalid, Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence
Advancing clean energy, primarily solar power, is a key component in the UAE’s efforts to diversify energy production while promoting sustainable development.
The main culprit for the crisis we face today is the greenhouse gases emitted when we burn fossil fuels. At the same time, cutting these emissions down and providing electricity for a growing global population is a massive and critical challenge. With a rapidly growing global population, urbanisation and burgeoning demand for goods and services in emerging economies, the demand for energy is on the rise, with increasing pressure on energy suppliers to meet that demand. There is a movement to add renewables to the global energy mix to do so. It is expected that 26% of the world’s energy will be generated by renewable sources by 2020.