Dubai is abandoning new coal-fired generation
Dubai doubles down on sustainability drive
New emissions targets and switch away from coal highlight fresh sustainability push
Dubai’s sustainability efforts have seen a step change in recent weeks. Earlier this month, the government’s Supreme Council for Energy updated its decarbonisation targets to encompass a 30pc reduction in emissions by 2030. This followed a belated decision to abandon coal-fired power generation and the granting of royal approval for a multibillion-dollar waste-management strategy. Dubai is in one sense a clean energy pioneer, as it has been importing LNG since 2008. But the government is also overseeing the phased development of the region’s largest single-site solar power facility, the Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Solar Park, designed to have a capacity of 5GW by 2030. The Dubai Clean Ene
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