Sustainability through new eyes I Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi I 14 May 2018

By highlighting the lessons and achievements of the UAE’s Founding Father, His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, this World Majlis session reflected on how we can draw from traditional values as well as current thinking on sustainability to create a meaningful impact for Expo 2020 Dubai.

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS
Truth and balance emerged as two key pillars of sustainability.

Having the right facts, information and knowledge freely available is essential to informing our choices and helping us develop technologies that can truly benefit humanity. The quest for sustainability is as much about the development of grassroots solutions as it is about our values and the institutions that promote and support them across generations.

Sustainability also requires a balance between the lessons of the past and innovations of the future; between consumption and conservation; between knowledge and emotion; between economic growth and planetary boundaries; and between technology and authentic human contacts with each other and with the planet.

KEY MESSAGES:
•The past holds invaluable lessons for building human capital, connecting with the environment and reshaping consumption
•Trust is an essential building block in creating a sustainable future
•We may not need to give up consumption if we can find ways of redesigning it
•We need to design future technologies that serve humanity
Institutions are essential to a sustainable future because they enable us to trust that our actions will have a long-term impact


MAJLIS PARTICIPANTS

[05:00] - Intr
HE Reem Al Hashimy
UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation
Director General, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau

[03:03] - Intro
Dr Federica Busa
World Majlis Moderator
Expo 2020 Dubai
[03:33]
David Heard CBE
Author

[05:59]
Dr Frauke Heard-Bey
Historian and Political Scientist

[09:59]
David Heard CBE
Author

[11:04]
HE Dr Nawal Al Hosany
UAE Permanent Representative at International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
and Deputy Director General of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy

[15:26]
Khalifa Hassan Al Forah Alshamsi
Group Chief Corporate Strategy & Governance Officer, Etisalat Group

[18:36]
Dr Lars Heikensten
Executive Director, Nobel Foundation

[18:36]
Sheikh Dr Majid Al Qassimi
Director of Animal Health and Development,
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment

[24:26]
Omar Farid
President - Middle East & North Africa,
PepsiCo

[25:04]
Beatrice Lamonica
Strategy Principal Director, Sustainability Lead,
Accenture

[28:05]
Sass Brown
Founding Dean
Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation

[30:53]
Isobel Abdulhoul OBE
CEO and Trustee, Emirates Literature Foundation
[33:51]
David Heard CBE
Author

[35:24]
Sebastián Caro
Student, New York University Abu Dhabi

[36:56]
Najeeb Mohammed Al-Ali
Executive Director
Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau

[38:19]
Isobel Abdulhoul OBE
CEO and Trustee, Emirates Literature Foundation

[39:49]
Khalifa Hassan Al Forah Alshamsi
Group Chief Corporate Strategy and Governance Officer, Etisalat Group

[41:44]
HE Dr Nawal Al Hosany
UAE Permanent Representative at International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)and Deputy Director General of the Emirates Diplomatic Academy

[45:20]
Sheikh Dr Majid Al Qassimi
Director of Animal Health and Development,
Ministry of Climate Change and Environment

[47:49]
Isobel Abdulhoul OBE
CEO and Trustee, Emirates Literature Foundation

[49:17]
Dr Frauke Heard-Bey
Historian and Political Scientist

[50:53]
Sara Alameri
Student, UAE University

[51:56]
Sass Brown
Founding Dean
Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation

[53:14]
Alireza Haji Hosseini
Executive Producer, CNN

[54:44]
Julius Gruener
Student, New York University Abu Dhabi

[55:41]
Vrushabh Chotalia
Student, Murdoch University

[56:52] - Outro
HE Reem Al Hashimy
UAE Minister of State for International Cooperation
Director General, Dubai Expo 2020 Bureau