Kuwait’s pavilion at Dubai Expo, the first world fair in the region, organized on Wednesday workshops demonstrating the country’s sustainability efforts, including measures it has taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

These workshops are highlighting Kuwait’s “path towards sustainability,” chronicling the nation’s entire history of solar energy projects, the first of which came to light in 1970, said Basem Al-Meslem, an engineer at Kuwait’s water and electricity ministry.

A separate workshop given by Khaled Nasser, another ministry engineer, revolves around measures Kuwait has taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, a staple climate policy action.

The country’s geographical landscape, coupled with meteoric advances in technology, are very conducive to the use of solar power as a renewable energy source, the workshop showed.

To meet soaring power demand, Kuwait has completed the first phase of its Shagaya renewable energy complex, a marquee project seen as the cornerstone of renewable energy plans.

Source: Kuwait News Agency