Most notably climate change, air quality and biodiversity

Abu Dhabi Environment identifies 12 performance indicators in the 2025 strategy

• Dr. Sheikha Al Dhaheri: "The strategic plan will contribute to supporting Abu Dhabi's plan and achieving its future aspirations."

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The Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi revealed that the main performance indicators include 12 indicators, and identified eight environmental challenges within its strategic plan (2021-2025), stressing its work on a healthy, preserved and sustainable environment that enhances the quality of life, by protecting the environment and enhancing sustainability through innovative environmental management, policies and regulations. Active side by side with our partners and the community.

The Secretary-General of the authority, Dr. Sheikha Salem Al Dhaheri, said that the authority's strategic plan (2021-2025) will contribute to supporting the Abu Dhabi plan and successfully achieving the future aspirations of the emirate.

In detail, the authority identified eight environmental challenges, including the local effects of climate change, declining air quality and increasing risks of respiratory diseases, deteriorating marine water quality, unsustainable use of groundwater, land pollution and soil degradation, inadequate waste infrastructure, and habitat loss, change and fragmentation. In addition to the overexploitation of fish.

The authority said, "in its strategic plan 2021-2025", which it recently launched, under the title "a roadmap for preserving the environment", that "when it comes to addressing challenges, we need to ensure the abundance of sound scientific data as a basis for our decisions, so we add data, science and awareness to the Our main priorities.

The authority indicated that Abu Dhabi witnessed a remarkable transformation in terms of economic prosperity, and the environment bore some hardship as a result of the development boom witnessed by the emirate, especially that the pace of development was so fast that the infrastructure, environmental controls and the ability to enforce were not always able to keep pace with this rapid progress. Pointing out that it reviewed the current state of the environment, and identified the main pressures and influences to determine its responses for the next five years.

The authority revealed that the key performance indicators by 2025 include 12 indicators, including climate change, air quality, biodiversity, fisheries, marine water quality, awareness, waste management, environmental emergencies, policy plans, legislation, assessments, analysis of research data, and water. subterranean, in addition to the soil.

It indicated that it is working through these indicators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15% compared to 2016, implementing protection plans for all sectors exposed to climate change, and achieving national air quality standards throughout the year to achieve an average of 90% of the days of the year that meet national air quality standards by the end of the year. In 2025, 90% of the area of ​​current habitats in Abu Dhabi, 21% of the land environment, and 21% of the marine environment as natural reserves, in addition to finding a general improvement in the status of threatened species.

It pointed out that it seeks within the performance indicators to reach 81% of the sustainable exploitation of fisheries, achieve 30% of the average relative size of the fish stock, and achieve a 30% increase in aquaculture production compared to fishing, with full commitment to marine water quality standards, and achieving all special standards. The microbial and public health indicators, as well as the environmental awareness of the partners reached 90%.

The objectives of the key performance indicators included reducing the daily generation rate of municipal solid waste to 4.1 kg per person, diverting 70% of hazardous waste and 39% of non-hazardous solid waste from landfills, and implementing 100% of approved and updated emergency plans for high environmental risks. Implementation of 100% of the planned environmental policies and legislation, access to the percentage of licensed facilities that fully represent environmental conditions to 95%, data analysis and research, and the integration of 70% of the available data via satellite into the environmental database, in addition to the implementation of 100% of the approved research agenda .

The remaining objectives of the performance indicators included reducing the percentage of groundwater extracted annually to 1,770 million cubic meters, achieving 74% in groundwater quality, increasing 50% in the area of ​​groundwater depletion areas, and 9% using groundwater replaced by alternative sources, in addition to achieving 78% In the indicator of compliance with soil quality.

• 8 environmental challenges identified by the authority in its strategic plan.

19 Marine and Wildlife Sanctuaries

The Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi confirmed that the Gulf waters are characterized by an abundance of marine life, which includes about 500 species of fish. to extinction, illustrating the international value of Abu Dhabi's marine biodiversity.

The authority indicated that Abu Dhabi includes 19 marine and land reserves, including six marine reserves that provide protection for 98.13% of the marine ecosystem area. and carrots, which are essential for wading and migratory birds.

While mangrove forests perform a variety of functions, providing a nursery habitat for many species, as well as ecosystem services, such as carbon storage, protection from storms, in addition to their aesthetic value, in addition to 13 wilderness reserves in Abu Dhabi covering more than 17% of the area of ​​their system. The total area of ​​nature reserves is about 18,000 square kilometres.

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