Heroes of the UAE<\/a>,” in which households were educated on ways to reduce their Footprints primarily through reducing energy and water consumption.<\/p>\nThe Heroes of the UAE campaign, along with the Ecological Footprint Initiative, also developed a “lead-by-example” program aimed at motivating government agencies to conduct “green makeovers” for their offices. The program included workshops on the underlying environmental issues to ensure that staff members were actively engaged in reducing their Ecological Footprints. The first case study was completed in April 2010 for the Ministry of Environment and Water offices. The building underwent technical changes predicted to reduce its water consumption by 44 percent and its carbon Footprint associated with energy consumption by up to 24 percent.<\/p>\n
From 2009 to 2010, researchers from EWS-WWF and the Masdar Institute<\/a>, with technical work supported by Global Footprint Network, coordinated development scenarios to track how the inter-related water and electricity sectors might affect Abu Dhabi\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions and the UAE\u2019s per capita Ecological Footprint up to 2030. These scenarios assessed the impacts of increasing renewable energy use, more energy- and water-efficient equipment, and green building codes to de-carbonize the power and water sector: If the most ambitious measures were implemented in Abu Dhabi alone, by 2030 the Emirate\u2019s CO2 emissions could be reduced by up to 40 percent and the UAE\u2019s overall per capita Footprint could be reduced by 1 global hectare per person.<\/p>\nNew Statistics Bureau<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/footprintnetwork.org\/content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/UAEmeeting_mathis_14_09_300-300x249.jpg\")
The Footprint Initiative highlighted the urgent need for a UAE agency that could be identified nationally and internationally as the official source of UAE data and statistics. In response to the Footprint Initiative\u2019s recommendation for such an agency, the UAE National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) was created in 2009. Its mission: to provide “up-to-date, high quality statistical data and information, which contribute in decision making, policy design and performance evaluation.”<\/p>\n
Latest Work<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\nSince 2013, Global Footprint Network has continued working with the UAE EFI on addressing data challenges and mobilizing the expertise of key stakeholders. In November 2014, Global Footprint Network and Emirates Wildlife Society organized a technical workshop for key data stakeholders in the UAE. Hosted by the National Bureau of Statistics in its headquarters, the workshop featured a discussion of data collection and reporting systems and data integrity issues that impact accurate, reliable and robust Footprint calculations in the UAE. In 2016, Global Footprint Network assisted in another verification project to improve calculations given the inconsistency between national and UN statistics for the UAE.<\/p>\n
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