The UAE has held its first nationwide exhibition on the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York Metropolis, as a part of the Excessive-Degree Political Discussion board (HLPF) on Sustainable Improvement 2025.
Titled “Shaping Tomorrow: UAE Management for a Sustainable Future”, the exhibition displays the UAE’s dedication to increasing worldwide motion to attain SDGs, in addition to its involvement in shaping the way forward for world improvement.
The inauguration was attended by Her Excellency Amina Mohammed, UN Deputy Secretary-Common; His Excellency Ambassador Mohamed Abushahab, Everlasting Consultant of the UAE to the UN; His Excellency Abdulla Nasser Lootah, Assistant Minister of Cupboard Affairs for Competitiveness and Expertise Change and Chair of the Nationwide Committee on Sustainable Improvement Objectives, and head of the UAE delegation taking part within the HLPF; alongside representatives from worldwide organizations and authorities delegations from around the globe.
Platform for Showcasing Inclusive Improvement
The exhibition was organised collectively by entities together with the Ministry of Inside, Ministry of Funding, Surroundings Company – Abu Dhabi (EAD), Dubai Chambers, and Noor Dubai Basis, a member of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum World Initiatives (MBRGI). The entities showcased their experiences and globally replicable initiatives in sustainable improvement, together with in innovation, local weather motion, group empowerment.
Past 2030: 4 Pillars for Improvement
The exhibition is the primary of its type organised by the UAE on the UN HLPF. It affords an interactive expertise that highlights the UAE’s journey in supporting sustainable improvement targets for the reason that Rio Summit in 2000. The exhibition represents an extension of the dialogue initiated by the UAE within the Authorities Expertise Change Programme with greater than 170 leaders and decision-makers throughout the World Authorities Summit 2023.
The exhibition presents the framework of sustainable improvement targets as an formidable imaginative and prescient for the UAE past 2030, primarily based on 4 primary pillars: integrating sustainability into nationwide insurance policies and laws; monitoring affect by means of correct indicators and information; creating a versatile improvement mannequin by means of ‘Future Zones’; and enhancing worldwide partnerships by means of information sharing, notably by means of the Authorities Expertise Change Programme.
HE Abdullah Lootah: the Exhibition Displays UAE’s Dedication to a Extra Sustainable Future
His Excellency Abdulla Nasser Lootah stated: “The UAE is dedicated to sharing greatest practices and profitable experiences with companions around the globe.
The ‘Shaping Tomorrow” exhibition embodies the UAE’s imaginative and prescient for a world improvement pathway primarily based on partnership, information sharing, and innovation. This displays the UAE’s method to creating options that may be scaled globally and displays its dedication to supporting world dialogue on the post-2030 period. This contains initiatives just like the Authorities Expertise Change Programme.”
Nationwide Initiatives Supporting World Objectives
The exhibition highlighted main nationwide improvement efforts which have had world affect. The Ministry of Inside showcased its “Inexperienced Justice” initiative in Latin America, aimed toward combating transnational environmental crimes, as a part of its efforts supporting SDG 17.
In the meantime, the Abu Dhabi Fund for Improvement (ADFD) introduced its contributions to financing initiatives in 100+ international locations, supporting infrastructure, training, and renewable power.
The Supreme Committee for Motherhood and Childhood showcased its initiatives aimed toward empowering ladies and kids, together with the “Nationwide Little one Empowerment Information” and the “Emirati Kids’s Parliament,” which improve youngsters’s participation in decision-making in assist of SDG 5.
Noor Dubai Basis introduced its mannequin for combating visible impairments in assist of SDG 3. This contains the iBSAR challenge in Asia and Africa, which offers preventive and therapeutic care.
EAD showcased its efforts in defending marine ecosystems by means of initiatives such because the “Marine Turtle Safety Program” and good monitoring applied sciences for coral reefs, aligning with SDG 14.
UAE Mannequin for Built-in Improvement
These initiatives exemplify the combination between the UAE’s nationwide imaginative and prescient and its world commitments, by linking native insurance policies with worldwide improvement objective.