The five-year environment strategy of the Abu Dhabi emirate has specified ten priority areas as the best way to protect environment and made them pivotal to the policy agenda of the emirate.
These include sustainability, comprehensive management of water resources, management and improvement of air quality, management of hazardous materials and waste, preservation of biodiversity and sustainable management of resources, creation of environmental awareness, development of a system for management of environment, health and safety, improvement of competence of the Environment Agency, formulation of a system to respond to environmental emergencies, comprehensive monitoring of environment and development of a data base.
The sustainability calls for programmes to protect the environment without depleting its resources as the population and the economic activities increase.
Considering the fact that only 3pc of ground water in the emirate is potable and the water consumption exceeds by far the limits of the renewable water supply, the strategy also aims at rational use of the water resources.
To limit air pollution caused by oil and gas production, power generation and traffic, and to bring down the carbon emission, the environment Agency will streamline policies and mechanisms to protect the quality of air.
Abiding by the Kyoto protocol and UN conventions on climate change, the emirate will also monitor strict control of carbon emission and limit activities damaging the ozone layer.
The strategy also calls for comprehensive plans for waste management and protection of the environment from hazardous materials, metals and chemicals used in the process of economic development.
The also makes among its priorities to protect the biodiversity, wildlife, natural habitats and marine ecology from any possible damages caused by population growth and extensive constructional activities.
Other priorities include programmes for creation of vast environmental awareness among people to make them participate in the process of environmental protection.
Abiding by the policies adopted by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council on the protection of environment, the Environment Agency will evolve a system for comprehensive management of environment, health and safety.
The priorities also include upgrading of the institutional competence of all the various segments to make them capable of protecting environment.
Other priorities include emergency management and development of an environment data base.
In a keynote address given at the launching ceremony, HE Mohammed Ahmed Al Bawardi, secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council called on every citizen and resident in the emirate to be proactive to protect the environment.
'All of us need to contribute for a better future for us and for the coming generations'; Al Bawardi said.
'Climate change has become a reality we can't avoid. Water resources are becoming scarce, biodiversity is shrinking, air is getting polluted, diseases and epidemics are spreading, demand for energy is increasing, wastes are piling up, hazardous materials are posing threat of radioactivity, and population explosion is bringing new challenges', Al Bawardi depicted the current picture of the globe.
He called for cultivating habits of sustainability, a habit to protect the environment and its resources without depleting it. /WAM/
These include sustainability, comprehensive management of water resources, management and improvement of air quality, management of hazardous materials and waste, preservation of biodiversity and sustainable management of resources, creation of environmental awareness, development of a system for management of environment, health and safety, improvement of competence of the Environment Agency, formulation of a system to respond to environmental emergencies, comprehensive monitoring of environment and development of a data base.
The sustainability calls for programmes to protect the environment without depleting its resources as the population and the economic activities increase.
Considering the fact that only 3pc of ground water in the emirate is potable and the water consumption exceeds by far the limits of the renewable water supply, the strategy also aims at rational use of the water resources.
To limit air pollution caused by oil and gas production, power generation and traffic, and to bring down the carbon emission, the environment Agency will streamline policies and mechanisms to protect the quality of air.
Abiding by the Kyoto protocol and UN conventions on climate change, the emirate will also monitor strict control of carbon emission and limit activities damaging the ozone layer.
The strategy also calls for comprehensive plans for waste management and protection of the environment from hazardous materials, metals and chemicals used in the process of economic development.
The also makes among its priorities to protect the biodiversity, wildlife, natural habitats and marine ecology from any possible damages caused by population growth and extensive constructional activities.
Other priorities include programmes for creation of vast environmental awareness among people to make them participate in the process of environmental protection.
Abiding by the policies adopted by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council on the protection of environment, the Environment Agency will evolve a system for comprehensive management of environment, health and safety.
The priorities also include upgrading of the institutional competence of all the various segments to make them capable of protecting environment.
Other priorities include emergency management and development of an environment data base.
In a keynote address given at the launching ceremony, HE Mohammed Ahmed Al Bawardi, secretary general of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council called on every citizen and resident in the emirate to be proactive to protect the environment.
'All of us need to contribute for a better future for us and for the coming generations'; Al Bawardi said.
'Climate change has become a reality we can't avoid. Water resources are becoming scarce, biodiversity is shrinking, air is getting polluted, diseases and epidemics are spreading, demand for energy is increasing, wastes are piling up, hazardous materials are posing threat of radioactivity, and population explosion is bringing new challenges', Al Bawardi depicted the current picture of the globe.
He called for cultivating habits of sustainability, a habit to protect the environment and its resources without depleting it. /WAM/
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