Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the Middle East, North Africa, Türkiye and South Asia (MENATSA) region, has marked a significant milestone in its sustainable finance journey by pioneering the UAE's first dedicated Transition Finance Framework to support corporate and institutional customers in their transformation to more sustainable business models.
Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) LLC, a leading provider of sustainable district cooling services in the UAE and a joint venture between Dubai Investments and Actis, has unveiled a structured roadmap towards Net Zero operations by 2050. Developed through a data-driven and technically modelled, the roadmap establishes a clear decarbonisation pathway within Emicool's defined operational boundary.
For most of the last decade, international property investors looking at the UAE went to one place first: Dubai. The emirate built its reputation on speed, liquidity and a constant stream of new launches, and it remains the region's largest and most active market by transaction volume. But a shift is underway. A growing share of global capital is now being split between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, with the capital increasingly treated not as a niche alternative but as a genuine second pillar of a UAE property portfolio.