Qatar’s construction market is expected to outperform many developed economies by averaging a growth rate of 12.5% a year in this decade, a Commercialbank Capital report shows.
World’s Largest (Gargantuan) Solar Thermal Plant Opens in Saudi Arabia
The world’s largest solar thermal plant – nearly double the size of the original largest in Denmark – is now online in Saudi Arabia, reinforcing the notion that this Gulf country has the potential to maintain its current oil wealth by exporting solar power for the next twenty centuries.
India powers up the world’s largest solar plant
The West Indian state of Gujarat has flicked the switch on the first phase of the world’s largest solar power field, supplying a whopping 214MW of solar energy to India’s struggling power grid.
Qatar endorses pact on green growth institute
Qatar has joined a consortium of founding member-countries in initialing an agreement to establish the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
National convention centre wins top award
The Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) has been named ‘Middle East’s leading exhibition & convention centre’ at the glittering World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony held in Dubai last Monday.
Paper Bag Boy
Abdul Muqeet, also known as the Paper Bag Boy, has risen from being just another ordinary student to an extra-ordinary environmentalist. At just ten years old, Abdul Muqeet has demonstrated his commitment to saving the environment in United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.
Spreading green ideas to the developing countries
Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), is incorporated by Korea to serve as the medium to carry out the message to developing countries. Working with Less advanced economies is the intent of South Korea’s Ambitious programme “to spread its knowledge of how to move its entire economy to a sustainable basis” given that more developed nations should be able to move to sustainable growth on their own, and it is working with the UAE to make all this into a reality.
Solid Waste Management in Middle East
The high rate of population growth, urbanization and economic expansion in the Middle East is not only accelerating consumption rates but also increasing the generation rate of all sorts of waste. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait rank in the top-ten worldwide in terms of per capita solid waste generation. The gross urban waste generation quantity from Middle East countries is estimated at more than 150 million tons annually.
New green building certifications
As projects become more and more complex and authorities are getting stricter with eco-friendly structures, the Gulf Organization for Research and Development (GORTD) Institute promised to offer discipline-specific Qatar Sustainability Assessment System (QSAS) certifications to meet new requirements that the government and the private contracts may soon impose.
Bioenergy in Middle East and North Africa
There is a large potential for renewable resources in the Middle East which have remained more or less unharnessed. According to a recent study, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region offers almost 45 percent of the world’s total energy potential from all renewable sources that can generate more than three times the world’s total power demand.