UACA encourages all non-state actors in the UAE to join UACA and at any stage of their decarbonization journey. Interested members joining the alliance are required to agree to the UACA Principles and commit to increase its ambition over time through the UACA Joining Member Criteria. For companies, setting credible targets will allow for:
-Increased competitiveness in a changing global market
-Contributing to the UAE’s net-zero target
-Support decarbonization efforts in line with 1.5°C of warming, critical to ensuring we avoid the worst climate change impacts
Current Members
We work collaboratively with stakeholders to convene, empower and act on the science with all actors to bring solutions and recommendations to the forefront for implementation.
We need like minded organizations, who believe in science-based and the Paris-alignment decarbonization target to help us accelerate local momentum towards Net-Zero, which is only possible - together.
Interested UACA members will require commit to align themselves to the alliance principles and joining criteria, with the objective to increase ambition over time.
Member Categories
Alliance Member
Alliance Achiever
Alliance Leader
Alliance Leader+
Based on the desired spirit of the alliance UACA will require members to pledge to align themselves to not only the joining criteria of the alliance but also the alliance principles.
UAE Climate Alliance Principles
- ⅰ. Credibility: Members will aim to push for credible, transparent, verifiable near and long term 2050 net-zero targets and action to align to the Paris Agreement.
- ⅱ. Transparent: All alliance members, stakeholders and supporters will be as transparent as possible when sharing their experiences, challenges, progress and more.
- ⅲ. Collaborative: Members will enter the alliance with a truly collaborative spirit.
- ⅳ. Progressive & Ambitious: While non-state actors are encouraged to join at any point in their journey, members will strive to be as ambitious as possible and rachet up their ambition over time for the collective group to push towards greater adoption of emission cuts to keep warming to 1.5°C.
- ⅴ. Member-Driven: Members will participate in deciding what content, reports, surveys, webinars, whitepapers and more should be explored. This is to ensure that the content and products developed are in line with needs of members and serve a specific need.