Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi City Municipality has released its 2023 Sustainability Report, highlighting its ongoing efforts to promote sustainability and preserve the environment and community in the region, which aligns with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards. The report is a crucial document that sheds light on the municipality's efforts to balance environmental, social, and economic growth, protect natural resources, and ensure the community's well-being.
The report outlines the achievements, challenges, and plans of the municipality in the field of sustainability, reflecting its commitment to sustainable development principles and social responsibility. It also details the municipality's developmental and service goals to achieve the highest levels of sustainable development and improve the quality of life, believing in the importance of establishing a sustainable future that ensures the continuity of services, resources, and energy. This includes developing recreational and service facilities to meet the community's ambitions and needs and enhancing happiness.
Given the municipality's significant economic and developmental role in serving the community and supporting the development journey, it remains focused on preserving resources as a genuine guarantee for future generations. The municipality follows these values while implementing infrastructure, service, and recreational projects to achieve the desired progress that meets community needs and aligns with development requirements across all levels, all within a robust strategy centered on sustainability standards.
The report highlights that Abu Dhabi City Municipality's sustainability revolves around several key pillars, such as environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The "environmental sustainability" pillar includes preserving resources and energy, reducing carbon emissions, systematic waste management, conserving biodiversity, and utilizing the latest advancements in irrigation systems through modern and efficient networks that contribute to water conservation.
Under the "social sustainability" pillar, the municipality places significant emphasis on developing its workforce, implementing year-round training and professional development plans, promoting occupational health and safety values, assessing institutional risks, and ensuring customer happiness.
The municipality's sustainable project execution is anchored in the "economic sustainability" pillar, which involves fostering innovative and creative thinking in executing investment projects, leveraging indirect economic impacts to serve its integrated project and vital role, and developing infrastructure assets in alignment with the UAE's Vision 2030.
Abu Dhabi City Municipality affirms its commitment to achieving this vision and sustainable goals by fostering positive interaction across all its sectors and centers, encouraging innovative thinking, and working towards a shared vision to meet all sustainability standards in all projects and services for the benefit of both present and future generations, embodying the forward-looking principle, "Today for Tomorrow."
The report outlines the achievements, challenges, and plans of the municipality in the field of sustainability, reflecting its commitment to sustainable development principles and social responsibility. It also details the municipality's developmental and service goals to achieve the highest levels of sustainable development and improve the quality of life, believing in the importance of establishing a sustainable future that ensures the continuity of services, resources, and energy. This includes developing recreational and service facilities to meet the community's ambitions and needs and enhancing happiness.
Given the municipality's significant economic and developmental role in serving the community and supporting the development journey, it remains focused on preserving resources as a genuine guarantee for future generations. The municipality follows these values while implementing infrastructure, service, and recreational projects to achieve the desired progress that meets community needs and aligns with development requirements across all levels, all within a robust strategy centered on sustainability standards.
The report highlights that Abu Dhabi City Municipality's sustainability revolves around several key pillars, such as environmental, social, and economic sustainability. The "environmental sustainability" pillar includes preserving resources and energy, reducing carbon emissions, systematic waste management, conserving biodiversity, and utilizing the latest advancements in irrigation systems through modern and efficient networks that contribute to water conservation.
Under the "social sustainability" pillar, the municipality places significant emphasis on developing its workforce, implementing year-round training and professional development plans, promoting occupational health and safety values, assessing institutional risks, and ensuring customer happiness.
The municipality's sustainable project execution is anchored in the "economic sustainability" pillar, which involves fostering innovative and creative thinking in executing investment projects, leveraging indirect economic impacts to serve its integrated project and vital role, and developing infrastructure assets in alignment with the UAE's Vision 2030.
Abu Dhabi City Municipality affirms its commitment to achieving this vision and sustainable goals by fostering positive interaction across all its sectors and centers, encouraging innovative thinking, and working towards a shared vision to meet all sustainability standards in all projects and services for the benefit of both present and future generations, embodying the forward-looking principle, "Today for Tomorrow."