UAE climate and environmental compliance
UAE climate compliance now rests on law rather than voluntary pledges. Federal Decree-Law 11 of 2024 on the Reduction of Climate Change Effects came into force on 30 May 2025, Cabinet Resolution 67 of 2024 established the National Register for Carbon Credits, and the national MRV platform gives designated entities one place to report their emissions. Abu Dhabi adds its own layer through the Environment Agency: facility-level GHG reporting, an annual environmental data report and permit conditions. Waste rules run in parallel, as extended producer responsibility, the single-use plastic ban and the federal waste law each place duties on producers and operators. This collection opens with a map of how these rules feed an ESG report and explains the three federal climate instruments. It then covers waste, Abu Dhabi facility reporting and verification, and finishes with energy audits, the measurement and verification of savings, and independent review of energy performance contracts.
16 articles, in reading order
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How New GCC Environmental Rules Feed Your ESG Report
CBAM, the UAE plastic ban, EPR, the Climate Law and new GCC disclosure mandates all land in one place: your ESG report. A 2026 map of what connects to what.
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Federal Decree-Law 11 of 2024: The UAE Climate Change Law and Your MRV Obligations
The UAE Climate Change Law applies to every entity that emits, free zones included. What Article 6 requires, when MRV duties trigger, and the penalty for getting it wrong.
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Cabinet Resolution 67 of 2024: The UAE's National Carbon Register Explained
Who must register with the UAE's National Register for Carbon Credits, by when, and what the AED 2 million penalties cover, a primary-source guide for GCC institutions.
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The UAE National MRV System and IEQT: How to Actually Report Your Emissions
MOCCAE's Integrated Emissions Quantification Tool at mrv.ae is the federal platform for UAE emissions reporting. How registration works, what the tool does, and how to prepare.
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UAE Waste Law & the Circular Economy: A 2026 Guide
How the UAE's waste regulation works in 2026, Federal Law 12 of 2018, the National Agenda for Integrated Waste Management 2023 to 2026, the plastic ban and EPR explained.
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UAE Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) 2026: What Producers Must Do
The UAE is moving to a national Extended Producer Responsibility framework in 2026. What EPR means for producers and brand owners of packaging, electronics and batteries.
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The UAE Single-Use Plastic Ban 2026: A Compliance Guide for Business
From 1 January 2026 the UAE bans a wide range of single-use plastics nationwide. What's prohibited, what's exempt, and what businesses must do to comply.
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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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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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Abu Dhabi Facility MRV: The 25,000 Tonne Threshold and the 2027 Verification Deadline
Abu Dhabi runs its own facility-level GHG MRV system under EAD. Who is in scope, the 25,000 tCO2e threshold, the 31 March deadline, and when verification becomes mandatory.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Who Checks the ESCO's Numbers? Independent Review of Energy Performance Contracts
On an energy performance contract the ESCO measures the savings its fee depends on. Where an owner's review effort pays, stage by stage, under Abu Dhabi's M&V Protocol.
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