Inaugural Zayed Sustainability Prize Forum highlights need for inclusive, unified climate action to build resilient communities

Inaugural Zayed Sustainability Prize Forum highlights need for inclusive, unified climate action to build resilient communities

- “We must honour and respect the way nature is designed, not impose our will,” said US film actor and environmental activist Adrian Grenier

Abu Dhabi, UAE: The Zayed Sustainability Prize, the UAE’s pioneering global sustainability and humanitarian award, yesterday welcomed government dignitaries, business leaders, the youth, international media and environmental activists for the Inaugural Zayed Sustainability Prize Forum at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023.

Held under the theme ‘Raising Ambition, Progressing Inclusivity,’ the high-level conversations and panel discussions spotlighted the important multi-stakeholder action being taken to deliver practical solutions to climate and sustainability challenges.

Speakers showcased the myriad social, economic, and environmental benefits being realised as a result of this initiative, enabling impactful positive change for vulnerable communities often located in the Global South.

In a fireside chat with Eleni Giokis, CNN anchor and correspondent, Adrian Grenier, the US environmental activist and film actor, delivered a passionate account of his deep commitment to leveraging impact investing to create positive change in the world.

Grenier said he was fundamentally an environmentalist, and that it was important for all to realise their inherent connection with the land and to give back to nature.

“To be an actor, to learn my lines is the easy part,” he said.