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Al Marashi (6th from left) and Al Abbar with the EmiratesGBC family.

EmiratesGBC set for bigger international role

DUBAI, June 7, 2016

Emirates Green Building Council (EmiratesGBC), an independent forum aimed at conserving the environment by strengthening and promoting green building practices, is set for a bigger global role with its co-founder,  board member and treasurer, Habiba Al Marashi being appointed to the membership committee of the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), a network of national green building councils in more than 100 countries.

EmiratesGBC is the world’s eighth Green Building Council and has been a member of WorldGBC since its inception in 2006.

It is also a member of the WorldGBC Established GBC Network, which was founded to link all the different GBCs across the world to share best practices and initiate global projects that help to strengthen energy and water use efficiency in the building sector and support environmental stewardship.

Saeed Al Abbar, the chairman of EmiratesGBC, already serves as a board director of WorldGBC since 2015, taking on the mantle from Adnan Sharafi, former chairman, who had been on the role from 2013 to 2015.

Dr Sadek Owainati, co-founder of EmiratesGBC, had earlier represented the organisation on the WorldGBC Membership Committee.

Over the years, it has played an instrumental role in supporting WorldGBC to set up the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) GBC Network to drive sustained dialogue and action that promote built environment sustainability across the region.

Welcoming the appointment, Al Abbar said: "Al Marashi is a leader in shaping a sustainable environment in the Arab world and her appointment to this important committee in the WorldGBC highlights the strong role that EmiratesGBC plays in leading the dialogue and tangible action to promote sustainable built environments globally."

"With two key positions in the WorldGBC, we present the advances that the UAE and the Mena region have accomplished in promoting green building practices. Our significant achievements in promoting a culture of sustainable built environments serve as an inspiration and referral point for several other GBCs,” he added.

On her global role, Al Marashi said: "It was indeed a great honour to represent our nation at the WorldGBC. It presents the opportunity to work with committed green building experts across the world and to share our learnings and experiences."

"It is important more than ever before to focus our energies on promoting sustainable development, accelerate initiatives to boost energy and water efficiency, and reduce the global carbon footprint," she noted.

“With the building sector being the main source of greenhouse gas emission, taking concerted action at a global level is imperative. We are confident that our participation in WorldGBC’s deliberations will help us all to achieve the green vision of the leadership of our beloved country,” she added.-TradeArabia News Service




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