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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has released its 'Shine a light on Climate Action' campaign, to raise understanding about the dangers of the increasing effects of climate change. The campaign was introduced by DEWA in preparation for Earth Hour 2016 and also assists the Green Economy for Sustainable Development Initiative, released by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai to transform the Emirate right into a shining example as well as a worldwide hub for green economic climate.

The project was released as part of Earth Hour 2016 in Dubai, and is being organised under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Executive Council, in partnership with the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, and Emirates Wildlife Society (EWS), in association with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and in cooperation with Dubai Properties Group.The event will certainly happen at Bay Avenue Park in Business Bay, Dubai.

The campaign highlights the negative impacts of climate change, stresses the importance of the rational usage of electricity and water, accentuates the positive impacts that come as a result of cumulative ecological initiatives, and even relevance of our individual efforts to minimize carbon dioxide emissions, limiting the impacts of global warming.

DEWA encourages all organizations and also individuals to assist the campaign via social networks, and even donate with Facebook from 16to 19 March 2016. The project also motivates individuals to contribute to preserving the environment as well as natural resources, while making the reasonable use of electricity and water services by adhering basic steps as part of their daily lives.

"In support of the vision of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to attain a balance in between advancement, and even the environment, preserving the rights of future generations, to stay in a clean, healthy , and also safe environment, and even as part of our vision to come to be a sustainable ingenious world-class energy, we organise Earth Hour in Dubai to assist worldwide efforts to restrict pollution and also find sustainable options to the rising effects of global warming as well as climate change. The awareness project was released to comply with our growth purposes and also strategic plans to enhance ecological sustainability in Dubai, in line with the Dubai Carbon Abatement Strategy 2021 to lower carbon emissions by 16 % by 2021," claimed HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Vice Chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and MD & CEO of DEWA.

"The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is a significant factor to accomplishing the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050. Launched by HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in November 2015, the method intends to give 7 % of Dubai's power from clean energy resources by 2020. This target will certainly boost to 25 % by 2030 and even 75 % by 2050," added Al Tayer.

Al Tayer noted that by introducing campaigns to minimize electricity and water usage, DEWA managed to save 1344 gigawatts (GW) of power, and 5.6 billion imperial gallons of water. Conserving AED 841 million, as well as restricting co2 emissions by over 714,000 tonnes.

Al Tayer likewise noted that the UAE was one of the first countries in the global area to support tackling the expanding concern of environment change. The UAE is also one of the very first countries to have endorsed the extension of the Kyoto method in 2005, to restrict greenhouse gases in industrial countries, along with being the initial country in the region to authorize the Copenhagen Accord to limit emissions, at COP15. DEWA was part of the UAE delegation taking part in COP21 in Paris, in 2015.

At COP21, globe leaders made an international agreement to defeat climate change and its increasing effects.

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