The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment launches the 28th National Environment Day

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment announced the launch of the “National Environment Day” twenty -eighth under the slogan “Our roots are the basis of our future” with the aim of highlighting the highest values and principles of preserving the environment and preserving nature for ancient Emirati society, and taking it as a firm basis to build on it and raise the awareness of society towards it and adopt it in order to create A sustainable future for future generations.
The launch of the National Environment Day – which comes on February 4 of each year – comes under the slogan “Our roots are the basis of our future” to keep pace with the announcement of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the State “may God protect him” 2025 “year of society”, where the community represents the engine The main for the development system in the country in all fields, and it can play a major role in developing the environment and preserving natural resources from waste.
Culture inherent in the field of environmental protection
The Minister of Climate Change and Environment, Dr. Amna bint Abdullah Al -Dahhak, said: “Driving” the National Environment Day “this year highlighting the culture of the community in the field of the environment protection and the preservation and development of natural resources, as the environment in the UAE is a natural wealth full of diversity in agricultural production Livestock and fish, as well as its wealth with living organisms and their huge biological diversity, which in turn constitutes the conscience of Emirati culture and carries many heritage symbols that distinguish the UAE community.
She added: “What the ancestors used to do in the past of environmentally friendly and nature practices formed a great awareness and a living heritage that we are proud of and inherited from generation after generation, which made him a force that pushes our efforts towards a sustainable future for all the people of the Emirates. This legacy must be the motive for every Emirati for the sake Promoting sustainability. ” Noting that “National Environment Day” celebrates the practices of sustainable grandparents as a basis for consolidating environmentally friendly behaviors in the hearts of future generations, creating solutions to all climatic and environmental challenges, and advancing sustainable development in all fields.
She emphasized: “The National Environment Day is an important opportunity for all members of society to contribute active in various areas of climate and environmental work for the UAE. Society is the main pillar on which the state builds its development plans for years and decades to come, and everyone must have full awareness and capabilities that qualify him to be part From the system to enhance the position of the UAE, the global capital of sustainability and the future. “
She concluded: “We will welcome all groups of society in activities and workshops to raise awareness towards our prosperous heritage of environmental preservation behaviors. Let us build on this legacy and consolidate environmentally friendly behaviors and customs, through which we aspire to be the UAE community of a global model in achieving sustainability in its comprehensive concept. What society is implanted today We will reap its fruits in the future.
Grandmother’s behavior is an inspiration
The practices and activities of the Emirati society were not immune to the nature and the environment around it, but the Emirati society was still incubating the environment and nature, affected by it and influenced by what benefits it and ensures the sustainability and development of natural resources to last. This was one of the most important foundations and principles on which the UAE, which is derived from the legacy of the founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, “may God rest his soul”, who said, “Whoever has no past has no present or future.” It is the approach that the UAE community goes on in all areas of life.
The practices of Emirati society in the past and its interaction with nature varied in many forms and activities, as the environment formed a source of life, food and water, and the Emiratis have devised many crafts and industries, but these practices extended to more than that to be a source of reconciliation, sports and hospitalization.
The UAE society still preserves most of these practices, and even created new ways to develop and improve them.
Among the most prominent of these practices is agriculture and hunting with sustainable tools and methods, and relying on palm trees is a source of food and raw materials for many traditional industries such as “frozen”. Society also used animal wealth as a source of dairy and leather. Nature also formed a source – the best Emiratis – especially in hunting and sports activities such as “falconry” and camel races.
Emirati society interacted in the past with the high temperatures with many sustainable practices, such as the innovation of “Al -Barajil” to cool the home rooms naturally.
Sustainable practices
Sustainable practices for the traditional Emirati cuisine are a sign of strengthening the community’s benefit from the environment around it in forming a set of cooking practices that are still strongly present on the tables of Emiratis, and are even related to many occasions that contribute to the formation of the Emirati character.
Because of the scarcity of water, the Emirati community used simple and sustainable techniques to search for water and drilling wells, and purify water from wells and valleys to obtain clear water.
The nature of the Emirates still gives society many solutions to live in permanent health, as there are many societal customs inherited to the use of nature in hospitalization and treatment of diseases, which are solutions that prove every day their effectiveness to enhance the health and protection of society.
These ancient solutions start from the heart of the Emirati deserts and mountains, as many of them abound with the eyes of fresh and sulfur water that flow between the rocks and in the valleys and between the tops of the high rocky mountains throughout the year.
Converting inheritance into an advanced work system
The UAE is keen to take all measures to build on this tremendous legacy and turn it into a government work system aimed at the environment is a source of life for every Emirati, and the source of more opportunities to foresee the future.
The ancestral behavior in the Emirati society has formed an inspiration for the system of legislation, laws and current environmental projects, and it is still the main pillar that leads efforts to preserve the environment and maximize the benefit of its goods.
And based on this principle, the National Environment Day is under the slogan “Our roots are the basis of our future” is a start towards highlighting the practices of Emirati society in the past towards the environment and nature and taking it as a source of life and preserving its sustainability, to form a comprehensive concept of sustainability and its adoption by all members of society, and the approach of the ancestors for the sake Paying the process of sustainability in all fields.
In order to activate this trend, the Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment and all the concerned authorities in the country will hold community activities and activities until next June 4, corresponding to “International Environment Day”, in order to shed light on the best customs and sustainable behaviors of the Emirates community, and adopt them with a contemporary perspective to confront all The current environmental challenges.
Cooperative
On the occasion of the celebration of the National Environment Day, the Ministry of Climate Change and the Environment and the various federal and governmental bodies, the private sector and civil work institutions in the Emirates are organizing many activities aimed at enhancing sustainable behaviors and involving society in an integrated system to enable it to adopt a lifestyle friendly to the environment.
On the basis of this, the activities aim to highlight the national identity that loves the environment and nature, preserving natural resources and developing their benefit with ensuring their sustainability, and building on the national heritage friendly to the environment, and how this legacy can be the motivation of new and innovative efforts in this field for years and decades to come, In line with the state’s plans and strategies in this field.
Focusing will be on many areas during these events, the most important of which are home agriculture, sustainable mobility, sustainable waste management, responsible consumption of products and services, and rationalizing electricity, water and food consumption.
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