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EEG successfully concludes For our Emirates we Plant Campaign 460 Indigenous Trees Planted in Umm Al Quwain

UAE, December 27, 2016 - Emirates Environmental Group (EEG), a specialist working group dedicated to safeguarding the atmosphere via education, activity programs and community involvement, successfully ended the 'For our Emirates we grow' campaign recently at the emirate of Umm Al Quwain.

The annual initiative aims to advertise the value of ecological preservation among all industries of UAE culture. It has actually considerably affected a significant part of culture to collect and deposit paper, plastic, smart phones, printer toners, battery, aluminum canisters and beverage containers in order to help with the recycling initiatives. Those that managed to fulfill the rigorous targets were given the opportunity to plant aboriginal trees under their names for this annual project.

Habiba Al Marashi, Chairperson of the Emirates Environmental Group, said: "We are delighted with the successful conclusion of this crucial yearly campaign in Umm al Quwain. Such activities play a vital function in reinforcing the picture of the UAE as a nation devoted to sustainable green initiatives. Through this campaign we aim to further involve the community and provide a platform that brings together all our stakeholders to function collaboratively towards ecological sustainability. We stay dedicated to sustaining the unfaltering initiatives of the general public industry with regards to fulfilling the nation's lasting ecological goals in accordance with the national agenda of the 'UAE vision 2021'.".

The campaign is a vital action in improving the UAE's sustainability standards as it aids cultivate an accountable actions by all strata of the UAE society.

Subsequently, such tasks will certainly likewise sustain EEG's objective of developing lasting green rooms in the UAE, which it has actually continued to uphold since the launch of the project in 2007. To date, EEG has actually handled to plant over 2 million native trees throughout the various Emirates which have actually brought about the mitigation of 12.351 metric tonnes of CO2 exhausts.

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