UAE Business: Abu Dhabi unveils new Green Industries labelling programme – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Abu Dhabi unveils new Green Industries labelling programme – Gulf Digital News

Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) has launched its innovative ‘Green Industries’ programme tailored based on best international practices in the field of eco-labelling while taking into consideration the nature of the industrial sector in the UAE capital.

Unveiling the environmental labelling programme, EAD said it encourages industrial facilities to find innovative pollution control solutions and apply best environmental practices leading to an increase in environmental compliance levels across all sectors, by granting an ‘environmental label’ to those organisations with outstanding environmental performance.

Green Industries aims to build mutually supportive partnerships to enhance and appreciate the contribution of industrial facilities in the field of environmental protection.

The programme was launched at an event held in the headquarters of EAD by Dr Shaikha Salem Al Dhaheri, Secretary-General of EAD, in the presence of Mohammed Saeed Al Nuaimi, Assistant Under-Secretary of Support Services Sector of the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment.

During the event, EAD bestowed honorary recognition on selected industrial establishments for their impeccable environmental compliance with environmental laws, legislation and conditions.

These were Emirates Global Aluminium, the world's largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the biggest industrial company in the UAE outside of the oil and gas sector; Nawah, a subsidiary of Emirates Nuclear Energy