74 initiatives are being implemented within its Green Economy strategy in Dubai

Dubai, 29-07-2019
Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has implemented 74 initiatives that include a pioneering green economy project to preserve and sustain the environment, improve energy efficiency and use clean substitutes to effectively respond to the UAE’s Green Development Strategy launched in 2012 under the theme “Green Economy for Sustainable Development”.
“The Authority places the green economy and environmental sustainability as one of its priorities, and this is reflected in the Authority’s strategic objective 5,” Environmental Safety and Sustainability, “said the Director of Safety and Risk Planning and Risk Management in the Dubai Strategy and Corporate Governance Sector. United Arab Emirates and the Government of Dubai.
She added that the initiatives implemented by the Authority in 2018 were diversified, including sectors and operational institutions to increase the efficiency of energy, fuel, water, renewable energy, waste management and carbon footprint reduction in the Emirate of Dubai.
She explained that the initiatives varied between the green mobility in the Emirate of Dubai through electric and hybrids, hybrids and hydrogen, as well as electric abras and hybrids powered by solar, where the number of electric taxis belonging to the Taxi Dubai 89 vehicles by the end of 2018 and will reach 200 vehicles by the end of this year 2019 and the number of hybrid taxis 1461 vehicles at the end of 2018 and will constitute 50% of the fleet of taxis in 2021 as well as the public transport buses use low-emission Euro 5 diesel engines are being introduced to introduce buses powered by U And 6 gradually to the service.
The initiative also included the expansion of the use of clean energy through the installation of solar cells in the buildings and facilities of the Authority. The Authority has developed a roadmap for the use of clean energy. The solar cell system has been installed on the parking building of the headquarters of the Authority with a capacity of 300 kW, Al Qusais station with a capacity of 10 kilowatts