UAE Year of Sustainability: New guide to help residents opt for sustainable habits

The Year of Sustainability team has released a sustainability guide that will encourage the public to adopt more sustainable habits in their lives by offering practical advice, expert insights and helpful information to inspire collective action.

The guide is available for the public to access on the UAE Year of Sustainability’s website.

This guide includes input from a selection of members from the Sustainability Experts Network, which consists of UAE-based experts with a deep understanding of the country's sustainability agenda.

It aims to address sustainability in various fields by encouraging the public to build lasting sustainable habits, such as promoting food portioning, switching to slow fashion, adopting a more plant-based diet and reducing red meat consumption.

Speaking about the approach of the guide and the actions it aims to encourage, Rauda Al Falasi, Strategic Storytelling Manager of the Year of Sustainability, explained, “This first edition of the guide focuses on responsible consumption and features expert-backed recommendations by Habiba Al Marashi, Sultan Al Junaibi, Ali Alshimmari and Nour Almehairi on how to approach sustainability from a multi-faceted perspective, looking at the financial, economical and health benefits of sustainable practices.”

“The sustainability guide is a much-needed resource that is made available to the public in order to enable them to adopt sustainable habits,” said Nour AlMheiri, a member of the Sustainability Experts Network, part of the Year of Sustainability.

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