Dubai: Dubai Police nominated 35 officers to attend a three-day carbon footprint awareness training programme by Dubai Carbon as part of Dubai Police’s Zero Carbon Police Force initiative.
The training programme is an important step in realising the memorandum of understanding that was signed between Dubai Carbon and Dubai Police to jointly develop initiatives for energy efficiency, fuel saving, and carbon offsetting.
The Dubai Carbon Centre of Excellence was launched by the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 2011 as a public-private partnership to fast-track clean energy development in the last years of the Kyoto Protocol.
Waleed Salman, Chairman of Dubai Carbon, said the programme covers three days of sessions on green credentials for Dubai Police.
“It is unheard of for a police force to try and lower its carbon footprint and, hence, we will spare no effort in helping the local authority accomplish their goal,” he said.
The sessions included different exercises relating to general climate change, carbon footprint, case studies of on-ground application of the process and actual scenarios of emissions by Dubai Police.
Lt Col Dr Tamim Mohammad Al Haj, Director of the Environment, Health and Safety Department at Dubai Police, said, “It is our duty to serve the citizens but we have a larger responsibility to carry out our proceedings efficiently. Hence, it is very important for us to find the means to mitigate our carbon footprint while going through our routine activities, such as patrolling and ensuring our buildings and offices are low carbon emitting.”
The partnership between Dubai Police and Dubai Carbon is going to effectively contribute to the sustainable and green growth of Dubai and the UAE’s economy.
