UAE Leads Way on Renewables
When even a country like the UAE, blessed with an abundance of cheap oil and gas, is pledging to get most of its energy from renewable sources, there has to be optimism about the prospects of the COP21 conference finding a global consensus on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai,launched the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050 on the eve of the UN-sponsored climate conference that opened in Paris yesterday. The COP21 conference will see all 195 signatory countries, including the UAE, adopt a new agreement on emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The targets will take effect from 2020. Details
