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Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023, featuring thought-leaders including Firas Wahbeh, Haifa Al Kaylani and Dr. Nabil Alyousuf

Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023, featuring thought-leaders including Firas Wahbeh, Haifa Al Kaylani and Dr. Nabil Alyousuf

This week, we’re bringing you a special episode from Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023, where we spoke to thought leaders about our collective journey to creating a COP of action. One Action: Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023 0:00 / 0:00 1× On the episode, you’ll hear from

Advancing sustainability of food systems by reducing their water footprint, with Dr. Mark Tester

Advancing sustainability of food systems by reducing their water footprint, with Dr. Mark Tester

We’re joined this week by Dr. Mark Tester, Professor of plant science and associate director at the Center for Desert Agriculture at the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology. He’s also the co-founder of Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, where they focus on reducing the water footprint to

Why 2023 could be the year for recycling in MENA, with Rabih El Chaar

Why 2023 could be the year for recycling in MENA, with Rabih El Chaar

Rabih El Chaar joins us on the show to talk about Nadeera, the UAE-based social enterprise that won the first edition of the PepsiCo MENA Greenhouse Accelerator Program in 2022. Rabih shares how they‘ve reached a milestone of 100 tonnes of waste saved from landfills, and why 2023 could

Slow & steady, with Chef Faisal Naser

Slow & steady, with Chef Faisal Naser

We’re kicking off the year with Chef Faisal Naser. His restaurant, Lento, opened in Abu Dhabi in 2020 and then in Dubai in 2022, which is where co-host Devina Divecha spoke to him about how he got started in the world of food and his musical influences. Nourish by

Athletes’ responsibility towards the environment, with Nelly Attar

Athletes’ responsibility towards the environment, with Nelly Attar

Nelly Attar is the first Arab woman to summit K2, and has scaled 14 peaks across the world, including Mount Everest. She started out as a mental health professional, and later found her purpose in sports & physical fitness. One Action: Nelly Attar 0:00 / 0:00 1×

How Manhat is producing water without electricity, with Dr. Saeed Alhassan

How Manhat is producing water without electricity, with Dr. Saeed Alhassan

Dr. Saeed Alhassan joins us on the show to talk about Manhat, his deep-tech startup focusing on natural water distillation without the use of electricity, and their evolution to floating farm solutions to improve water and food security. One Action: Dr. Saeed Alhassan 0:00 / 0:00 1×

Sustainable agriculture practices with Yazen Al Kodmani

Sustainable agriculture practices with Yazen Al Kodmani

Yazen Kodmani joins us on the show to talk about what organic farming really means, how Emirates Bio Farm is leading the organic & sustainable farming movement in the UAE, the impact on the environment, and their effort to reduce plastic packaging along the food chain. One Action by PepsiCo: Yazen

Clean Energy Certificates – enabling Abu Dhabi entities to go green

Clean Energy Certificates – enabling Abu Dhabi entities to go green

Host Taryam Al Subaihi – Corporate Communications Executive Director – chats with two EWEC industry experts about the impact of Clean Energy Certificates (CECs). He is joined on the podcast by Francois Brice, Commercial Executive Director, and Jasem Mohamed Othman, Commercial Operations and Relationship Manager. The Current by EWEC: Clean Energy Certificates

Goumbook Think Tank: Managing your ESG reporting

Goumbook Think Tank: Managing your ESG reporting

Goumbook gathered a network of experts and an all-star panel from different industries, contexts and trajectories to discuss the challenges and highlight opportunities around ESG reporting.

SDG12 and Food Waste, how can we make a difference? With Tarek AlKhoury

SDG12 and Food Waste, how can we make a difference? With Tarek AlKhoury

In this episode, Tatiana is joined by Tarek Al Khoury, Regional Coordinator for Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Consumption and Production at the West Asia Office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). They talk about UNEP initiatives to promote the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, more precisely