Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has launched the “Dubai Green Economy Partnership”, which aims to spur sustainable and green growth of Dubai economy and promotes its position in green global value chain for green and clean technologies and sustainable consumption. Sheikh Hamdan instructed stakeholders to do their best to maintain Dubai’s status in the list of countries that stimulate sustainable green growth and harness Dubai’s strategic location as a prominent regional and international hub for emerging markets, finance and trade to apply and deploy green and clean technologies in a broader way. Sheikh Hamdan asserted that the new programme is in harmony with Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 and the UAE Green Economy strategy launched by UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,under the theme “Green Economy for Sustainable Development” in last January 2012. ”The new initiative will prod sustainable development in the UAE and promote public-private sector partnership, raising it to new levels of creative collaboration,” Sheikh Hamdan added. Dubai Green Economy Partnership aims to create new commercial opportunities through facilitating smooth adoption of technological solutions with economic and ecological proven feasibility and application of best practices in optimum and economic use of resources and conservation of the environment and natural resources.