The UAE is working closely with India to boost climate action, with the two countries collaborating on renewable energy initiatives and industrial development growth, state news agency Wam reported on Thursday.
Senior officials from the two countries discussed ways to boost bilateral opportunities in these areas during a visit to India by Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and special envoy for climate change.
The UAE and India agreed to fast-track various initiatives including public-private partnership across renewable power deployment, agriculture efficiency, green hydrogen, sustainable finance and carbon market development, Wam reported.
“The UAE’s deepened collaboration with India on the multiple growth opportunities offered by the energy transition builds up on decades of close UAE-India commercial and diplomatic ties,” Wam quoted Dr Al Jaber as saying.
“Today, India is one of the UAE’s largest trade partners and we welcome the opportunity to capitalise on this strong foundation to power low carbon growth through public and private sector solutions that are good for the climate and the future economic prospects of both our peoples,” he said.
The UAE is currently India’s third-largest trading partner and the second-largest export destination after the US. India is the UAE’s second-largest trading partner and the largest in terms of exports.
India accounted for 9 per cent of the total volume of the UAE's trade with the world in 2021. Trade between the countries stood at $65 billion, data from India’s Ministry of Commerce showed.
In February, the UAE signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement with India to boost non-oil trade between the two countries to $100bn in five years, from more than $60bn currently.
This month, the two countries launched an India-UAE Start-up Bridge to provide a platform to investors and entrepreneurs from both countries.
The bridge is part of the trade agreement that will act as a one-stop platform to provide information on start-up opportunities to Indian and UAE entrepreneurs and stakeholders.
During the visit, Dr Al Jaber and the UAE delegation held meetings with Indian government officials and businessmen including Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs; Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution and Textiles; and Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, and Minister of Labour and Employment.
The delegation also met Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries; Arun Singh, chairman and managing director of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited; Sajjan Jindal, chairman of JSW Group; and Alka Mittal, chairman and managing director of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
The meetings with the private sector leaders discussed new potential opportunities in the areas of decarbonisation and climate solutions to further expand UAE-India industrial co-operation, Wam said.
The Emirates also aims to help India achieve its aim of reaching 450 gigawatts of installed renewable energy capacity by 2030, it added.
Dubai works towards better air quality by 2021
Dubai is on a mission to record good air quality for 90 per cent of the year – up from 86 per cent annually today – by 2021.
The municipality plans to have seven mobile air-monitoring stations by 2020 to capture more accurate data in hourly and daily trends of pollution.
These will be on the Palm Jumeirah, Al Qusais, Muhaisnah, Rashidiyah, Al Wasl, Al Quoz and Dubai Investment Park.
“It will allow real-time responding for emergency cases,” said Khaldoon Al Daraji, first environment safety officer at the municipality.
“We’re in a good position except for the cases that are out of our hands, such as sandstorms.
“Sandstorms are our main concern because the UAE is just a receiver.
“The hotspots are Iran, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, but we’re working hard with the region to reduce the cycle of sandstorm generation.”
Mr Al Daraji said monitoring as it stood covered 47 per cent of Dubai.
There are 12 fixed stations in the emirate, but Dubai also receives information from monitors belonging to other entities.
“There are 25 stations in total,” Mr Al Daraji said.
“We added new technology and equipment used for the first time for the detection of heavy metals.
“A hundred parameters can be detected but we want to expand it to make sure that the data captured can allow a baseline study in some areas to ensure they are well positioned.”
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1 Going Dark
A common method to transport Iranian oil with stealth is to turn off the Automatic Identification System, an electronic device that pinpoints a ship’s location. Known as going dark, a vessel flicks the switch before berthing and typically reappears days later, masking the location of its load or discharge port.
2. Ship-to-Ship Transfers
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3. Fake Destinations
Signaling the wrong destination to load or unload is another technique. Ships that intend to take cargo from Iran may indicate their loading ports in sanction-free places like Iraq. Ships can keep changing their destinations and end up not berthing at any of them.
4. Rebranded Barrels
Iranian barrels can also be rebranded as oil from a nation free from sanctions such as Iraq. The countries share fields along their border and the crude has similar characteristics. Oil from these deposits can be trucked out to another port and documents forged to hide Iran as the origin.
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