Overview
Join the IWFM UAE Region for our first event in 2023 where guest speaker Nadia Ibrahim an Associate Director – Consultancy & Sustainability and Board of Director UN Global Compact, UAE at FARNEK will present on ‘Net zero focused facilities management: the future of FM operations’. Nadia will:
- introduce the concept of net zero and its relevance to the fight against climate change
- talk about why FM is key in achieving net zero especially for the built environment
- speak about how FM companies can provide net zero as a future business model for their clients towards supporting their net zero journey
- share how Farnek’s own net zero programme and what it entails in strategic and operation terms and plans for achieving net zero.
Registration opens at 6pm. Refreshments will be served and there will be an opportunity for networking before the event formally starts at 6.30pm.
Context:
Commercial real estate contributes around 40% of greenhouse gas emissions and reducing this in the coming years is essential both for companies to hit their own sustainability goals and, of course, for minimising environmental damage. With increased attention on managing climate change, achieving net zero emissions is becoming a top priority for many organisations.
As experts in managing buildings and workspaces, be that energy, waste, cleaning, fleet, landscaping or engineering, the facilities management (FM) industry can have a huge impact on helping businesses on their journey towards net zero. A facilities management organisation’s ability to influence building/organisation’s net carbon emissions is essential to mitigating climate change.
In the future, FM companies will need to take an important transitional role as net zero managers through a comprehensive and strategic approach towards making building operations net zero through adoption of sustainable facilities management including energy efficiency, renewable energy, waste reduction, sustainable materials management and digitalisation.
Speakers
Nadia Ibrahim
Environmental & Sustainability Specialist, Net Zero Consultant, Zero Waste & Circular Economy Consultant, Green Globe (Sustainable Tourism) Auditor, ISO Lead Auditor & ESG Specialist. Ex-board of director - UN Global Compact.
Nadia Ibrahim is a renowned sustainability expert with over 15 years of experience in UAE and the region. She has well defined expertise in multiple sustainability fields including Net Zero & Decarbonization, ESG, Energy Management, Circular Economy & Waste as well as in Sustainable Tourism.
She is a well-known sustainability expert in Middle East and is featured in many leading sustainability & ESG conferences in Middle East as speaker and panellist including CoP 28 where she was represented in multiple panels. She is a Board Member for the Advanced Net Zero Volunteering a Program under Dubai Supreme Council created to advance Net Zero Cities in the Middle East. She was an ex- Board Member for United National Global Compact- UAE Chapter driving sustainability for business in UAE. She is currently serving as Middle East Director for Sustainability with Ricardo PLC a UK based international environmental & engineering consultancy leading the sustainability services in Middle East. She is passionate about integrating environmental & social concepts into her work and works actively towards changing the way companies view sustainability and social responsibility, from mandatory to an opportunity to innovate.
Qualified with master’s in environmental management, she is a Certified Green Globe Auditor for Sustainable Tourism, TRUE Certified Auditor for Zero Waste as well have educational credentials for Carbon Management, ESG, Energy Management etc. She has wide experience on offering sustainability consulting & advisory services for wide range of Clientele from Governments to commercial organization, industries, real estate developers, retailers as well as the hospitality sector and had worked with many leading organizations in UAE & Middle East driving sustainability.