Dubai Municipality has launched the first phase of its environmental awareness campaign for industrial and service enterprises, it has announced.
This, it said, will highlight significant environmental requirements and technical guidelines to be followed to minimise the negative impact on the ecosystem and protect various industries.
Aisha Al Muhairi, Acting Director of the Department of Environmental Sustainability at Dubai Municipality, highlighted the potential of the Municipality’s awareness campaign in encouraging compliance of industrial and service enterprises with Dubai’s environmental laws and legislations.
In addition, she said that the move reflects the Municipality’s efforts to develop a sustainable environmental system that highlights the principle of proactive environmental protection in the Emirate and the sustainability of its natural resources.
Al Muhairi also stated that the campaign comes in line with the UAE’s environmental frameworks, and its goal of improving the quality of life and ensuring a sustainable environment that drives economic growth.
Further, it was outlined that the campaign plays a “significant role” in supporting the objectives of the National Air Quality Agenda 2031, which seeks to mitigate pollution, ensure air quality improvement, and contribute to a “safe and healthy environment.”
Al Muhairi said: “In line with the campaign, Dubai Municipality will distribute environmental awareness leaflets to several industrial and service businesses operating in Dubai. These leaflets will include environmental guidelines to minimize adverse environmental effects caused by various operations, as well as technical guidance for issuing necessary permits.”
Dubai Municipality has reportedly conducted over 7,000 inspections and surveillance tours this year.
Over 5,000 enterprises and projects operating in various critical sectors within the Emirate were targeted to check their compliance with environmental standards and procedures and to control establishments that violate environmental legislation in Dubai.
Dubai Municipality also shared that it leverages innovative technologies to ensure the Emirate’s environmental and natural sustainability, such as its mobile vehicle to monitor the air environment, which received ISO 17025 in 2022 for general requirements for the efficiency of inspection and calibration laboratories.
It is now the first mobile laboratory in the UAE to be certified in air environment monitoring.
The mobile vehicle is the first reference station in terms of design and quality of equipment and techniques used for monitoring air pollutants at the regional level, designed with global environmentally friendly features and resistant to different climatic conditions, ranging from high temperatures and humidity.
The vehicle comprises nearly 20 advanced monitoring techniques, which track approximately 100 air contaminant components and compounds, toxic pollutants, volatile organic compounds, ozone catalysts, concentration rate of heavy metals, and odorous gases, as well as radioactive pollution levels, noise, and weather data.