UAE ranks second in the world in energy transformation, says Sheikh Mohammed – Gulf Today

UAE ranks second in the world in energy transformation, says Sheikh Mohammed – Gulf Today

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum attends a Cabinet meeting in Expo City Dubai.

Gulf Today, Staff Reporter

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, chaired a Cabinet meeting in Expo City Dubai.

Sheikh Mohammed said on X, “In Expo City Dubai, I chaired a Cabinet meeting coinciding with the COP28 conference. At the beginning, we reviewed the outcome of the country’s national efforts in the environmental field, which included more than 120 decisions in sustainability, climate change, and the development of our natural resources, issued by the Council during the past five years... and in the year 2023. Alone, we launched more than 60 new decisions that formed an integrated system of policies, legislation, strategies and initiatives to enhance the country’s efforts and its file in participating with the world in combating the effects of climate change.”

Sheikh Mohammed said, “National strategies and policies in the field of environment and climate change have borne fruit, as the country ranked second in the world in energy transformation, within the Global Green Future Index 2023 (GFI), and sixth in the world in the rate of per capita solar energy consumption,