The Ministry of Climate Change and Environment has taken a major step towards reducing the UAE's carbon footprint with a cement and concrete decarbonisation workshop to be held earlier this week. An event organized by the Ministry for climate change and the environment, was aimed at addressing the contributors to the UAE's carbon footprint: the embodied emissions that are associated with the production, transport and construction of building materials and represent 10 % of the country's total. CO2 emissions. With more than 100 participants, the event was the first time that experts from across the supply chain came together to share their ambitions to achieve a net zero plan. HE Eng Essa Al Hashmi, Assistant Under-Secretary for Sustainable Communities and Acting Under-Secretary for Ecological Development and Climate Change at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, in his opening remarks, highlighted the critical importance of reducing carbon emissions to enable the UAE to achieve zero net emissions until 2050.Kate-Lynne Wolmarans)