Statement of Ahmad Bin Shafar CEO, Empower On the Occasion of the World Energy Day
Each year, we celebrate the 'World Energy Day' on the 22nd day of October, as mandated by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, throughout the World Energy Forum that was kept in Dubai in 2012. Today serves as an occasion to inspire us to apply even more efforts in the transfer to make our areas much more familiar with the relevance of reasoning power intake; reducing our carbon footprint and alleviating its dangerous impacts; comprehending the importance of renewable and clean power sources; enhancing and supporting efforts to achieve lasting growth and to own in an effective transformation to a green economy.
According to this, Empower stays steadfast in its dedication to support the combined transfer to implement the vision of the country's sensible leadership to produce a balance in between advancement and the setting, which in turn, will certainly guarantee the achievement of a sustainable future for us and for future generations. Our dedication to these efforts drop in line with UAE Vision 2021, which is aimed to positioning the UAE as one of the best countries in the fields of energy and sustainability by 2021; as well as with the objectives and goals set in Dubai Strategy 2021, which looks in the direction of making the emirate a smart, incorporated, attached, and sustainable city having a tidy, healthy and balanced, and sustainable environment.
Empower places key focus on the promotion of sustainability amongst community members, which is widely seen in our continual efforts to motivate the adoption of a culture of energy usage rationalization. We are wanting to prosper in these undertakings with the implementation of tactical strategies and programs that have been created especially to improve and boost the top quality of our setting -done in assistance of Dubai's sustainable development strategies, which aims to supply 7 per cent of the emirate's energy requirements using tidy energy sources by 2020; increasing this to 25 percent in 2030 and by 75 per cent in 2050.
