It includes 20 environmental, social and economic projects
Dubai Roads adopts a five-year plan for sustainability
The commission's plan relied on measuring the environmental, societal and economic impact of the projects.
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Mattar Al Tayer: "The plan will have a significant environmental impact in reducing carbon dioxide emissions."
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The Roads and Transport Authority has adopted an integrated five-year plan for sustainability, for the years 2021-2025, in line with the updated strategic goals and objectives of the authority, to support the sustainability system.
Mattar Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the authority, said, "The plan is an important step in the authority's path towards global leadership in easy and sustainable mobility, in line with the strategic directions of the state, such as the Emirates Green Development Strategy 2030, the UAE Centennial 2071, and the local directions of the emirate Dubai".
He added that "the development of the plan took into account the evaluation of all the projects and initiatives of the authority, and relied on measuring the environmental, societal and economic impact of the projects within the framework of the sustainability work in the authority, and measuring the extent to which the projects are linked with topics of relative importance, which are disclosed in the annual sustainability report at the authority." He pointed out that "the plan includes 20 projects, including nine projects related to the environmental leadership axis, six projects related to the community leadership axis, and five projects related to economic prosperity, within the framework of the sustainability work in the authority."
Al Tayer stressed that the plan will have a significant environmental impact in reducing carbon dioxide emissions, enhancing the resilience of public transportation infrastructure and its impact on climate change, and achieving the Authority's strategic objective related to enhancing safety and environmental sustainability.
The plan adopts many innovative projects in mass transit systems, and supports the Dubai Smart Mobility Strategy, which aims to convert 25% of all transportation trips in Dubai into self-driving trips, through various means of transportation by 2030.
The projects, within the economic axis, aim to achieve a circular economy, and support the authority’s plan to recycle waste resulting from the authority’s operations and projects, 100% by 2030.
It is worth noting that the authority has made great achievements in the field of sustainability, as it is the first authority in the road and public transport sector in the world to publish its sustainability report, in accordance with the standards of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and in accordance with the global standard: ISAE3000 in 2018. The year 2020 the United Nations Global Compact for Sustainable Development, after aligning its data in its sustainability reports with the United Nations goals, which deal with global challenges, such as poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, peace, justice, human rights, and combating corruption, which shows its commitment to the 10 principles, in Charter, relating to these areas.
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