4 October 2009
in the world’, Majid Al Mansouri ,Secretary General of Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), said in an interview run by NHK channel One‘s news feature program ‘WorldNetwork’ today
NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, is Japan’s sole public broadcaster which launched its transmission from Dubai on Sunday.
There is a growing boom in the world for searching renewable energy and oil-richer Gulf countries are not exception.
The United Arab Emirates, one of the biggest oil producers in the world, has been recently increasing its efforts for that.
Abu Dhabi’s ambitious Mega project MASDAR which means ‘resource’ in Arabic has drawn attention from all over the world.
MASDAR has been under construction scheduled to be done by 2015 in Abu Dhabi costing 22 billion US dollars.
Al-Mansouri stressed importance of MASDAR for the future, even when its oil resource dries up.
He said: ‘Oil resource is not renewable, that is why we have invested lots in a renewable energy such as solar power.’
Abu Dhabi has recently succeeded in hosting IRANA’s headquarter to its capital by emphasizing its efforts to tackle the global climate change as a member of international community announcing its different supports for developing countries in terms of clean energy.
NHK is the largest TV network in Asia and the new Dubai bureau has become its 30th oversea bureau. It has also become the NHK’s fifth bureau in the Middle East following Cairo, Jerusalem and Baghdad and Teheran.
NHK says that it would enhance coverage in the United Arab Emirates which is one of the biggest oil exporters to Japan for better understanding of Japanese about UAE and that it would also cover the entire region as well.
