Cool City Project Comments (in UAE)

Global warming has influence in environment life through air, soil and water. As the result, people life is getting to be difficult. In this article, you will find three good local solutions that help to save money and improve public health by reducing energy waste and pollution. Moreover, there are also three bad adaptations that don’t work to reduce global warming.

There are a number of good adaptations. First of all is solar and wind installations. UAE is a desert land which has sunlight through seasons. If it depends on solar power, it will limit using fossil fuel. Wind is available on that land so it can be used like another alternative energy which is wind energy. Second is energy efficiency retrofits to existing buildings. UAE has small and area so municipality and local government can work together to make fast changes in buildings. There are not that many buildings and modernizing lights and heating and cooling could be very good improving. Anther adaptation is energy efficient street lighting. There are numerous amount of lights in the streets which burn significant amount of energy. Street lights can be replaced with super efficient lights emitting diode (LED) bulbs; cities will save costs of energy.

There are also bad adaptations. One of the most important is combined heat and power. A power plant need more secure and any small mistake, it will cause casualties and negative effects. A further point is clean buses. Abu Dhabi, Dhabi and Sharjah are suffering from traffic jams and the best solution is to get red of buses with trains. Last adaptation is public funds. In UAE, most of citizens have lack of knowledge and poor. Like economical changes, it could make social problems.

In summary, there are maybe good adaptations for reducing emissions but have serious effects people live. In my opinion, we should work out the problem not by making another problem.