The UAE E-Waste Take-Back Duty Suppliers Already Have
Since May 2021 UAE suppliers of electronics and batteries must take back e-waste free, report monthly and pay for treatment. The rule and how emirates apply it.
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Analysis on UAE and GCC ESG, climate risk, and assurance.
Practitioner perspectives on regulatory developments, methodology questions, and the issues we see most often in client work, written by senior team members actively delivering engagements across the Gulf.
2026
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ESG Disclosure Rules in the GCC, Country by Country
What each GCC state requires of listed companies and banks on ESG reporting, IFRS S1 and S2, assurance and climate risk, as at 18 October 2026.
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Abu Dhabi Does Not Mandate Energy Audits. Here Is What It Mandates Instead.
No Abu Dhabi law makes a facility commission an energy audit. DSM Regulations, the Super ESCO, EAD reporting and Estidama create the demand instead.
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Abu Dhabi Environmental Compliance on One Page: Permit, Annual Report, GHG MRV and the Climate Law
What an Abu Dhabi facility owes EAD, as one chain: the environmental permit, the Q1 environmental data report, facility GHG MRV, and the Climate Law fines behind them.
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Choosing a GHG Verifier for Abu Dhabi Facility MRV
What EAD's MRV guidance requires of a GHG verifier: accreditation, reasonable assurance, independence, rotation and the 1 July notice, and how to choose one.
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Proving Savings on an Abu Dhabi Retrofit: the M&V Protocol and IPMVP Options A to D
How DoE's Abu Dhabi M&V Protocol works on ESCO retrofits: the four IPMVP options, baselines, routine and non-routine adjustments, and the report the invoice rests on.
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EAD's Annual Environmental Data Report: The Ten Templates, the Q1 Deadline, and Who Has to Prepare It
Decree No. 1 of 2024 requires Abu Dhabi facilities that discharge to the environment to report to EAD every first quarter, on ten templates, through an EAD-approved consultant.
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Energy Audit of a UAE Manufacturing Plant: Compressed Air, Motors, Steam and Process Heat
Where energy goes in a manufacturing plant and how an audit finds it: compressed air, motors and drives, steam, process heat and cooling, metering and production-normalised EnPIs.
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Still on OHSAS 18001? Moving to ISO 45001
OHSAS 18001 is no longer valid. What happened to the certificates, what ISO 45001 changes, a step-by-step move for an OHSAS-style system, and UAE costs and timing.
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One Year of Energy Data, Four Obligations
One year of metered fuel, electricity and water data feeds an energy audit, a Scope 1 and 2 inventory, EAD's Template 9 and the Abu Dhabi MRV report. Collect it once.