DST Eco

News

What's new in the eco portfolio

Updates about the portfolio itself — new records, how it's run — kept separate from the individual planting records below.

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Environment

Wadi Wurayah inscribed

UNESCO inscribed Wadi Wurayah in July. The citation counts 1,099 species in the Hajar mountains of Fujairah — roughly half the terrestrial mammals recorded in the whole country.

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Energy

800MW left in phase six

DEWA puts the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park at 3,860MW today, with the remaining 800MW of phase six scheduled to be commissioned by the end of the year.

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Environment

A first environment conference

The Dubai Environment and Climate Change Authority stages the emirate’s first Environment Conference and Exhibition at the Grand Hyatt, across six themes that include food security, the circular economy and environmental AI.

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Energy

Solar, now the largest fleet

The IEA’s Global Energy Review 2026 puts 2025 solar additions above 600 GW for the first time, taking the cumulative fleet to about 2,800 GW — more installed capacity than any other generating technology.

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Shipping

A first methanol dual-fuel ship

The 1,250 TEU DP World London can burn methanol or conventional fuel. It was delivered in April and first bunkered methanol in Rotterdam in June.

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Environment

Apple's climate number gets a new owner

Apple says its carbon footprint is 60% below 2015. On 1 September the person who has to keep saying that became someone else — and he is the one who signed off the hardware.

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Environment

The UAE is halfway to 100 million mangroves

Roughly 51 million trees planted against a 2030 target of 100 million — a target that was raised from 30 million. Marine protected areas stand at 12% against a 30% goal.

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Company

DST opens a non-commercial environmental direction

DST split its environmental work out of a single paragraph on the main site and gave it its own address, eco.dst.llc — a running portfolio where each funded planting gets its own mapped record.