The UK Government has appointed Oliver Christian as His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for the Middle East and Pakistan and His Majesty’s Consul General to Dubai, succeeding Simon Penney.

Our second COP28 event, the UK-UAE Decarbonisation of The Built Environment Summit will be held on 7th December.

As part of our COP28 programme, we will be hosting a seminar on private wealth and impact investment/sustainable investment.

The 3rd Arab British Economic Summit will take place in London on 20 November.

ADIPEC, the world’s largest energy conference, will be taking place in Abu Dhabi from 2-5 October.

We will be hosting two major delegations to the UAE – representatives from Cambridge University and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and our members Crown Agents.

We are delighted to be hosting a Parliamentary Reception for our members at the House of Lords.

Congratulations to Masdar on raising $750 million through its first ever issuance of green bonds, and commemorating the event by opening the Markets at London Stock Exchange.

We are delighted to be supporting partners of GITEX Global 2023

It was a pleasure to meet Dubai Chamber of Commerce in London on 14 June and sign an MOU with them, confirming our support to the Chamber as it establishes its International Office in London.

We were delighted to host a panel discussion on Reskilling the Workforce for a Post-Carbon Energy Sector at the Energy Exports Conference in Aberdeen.

We were delighted to visit Dubai’s sister city, Dundee, on June 5th, at the invitation of Dundee and Angus Chamber of Commerce, to meet local companies and brief them on business opportunities in the UAE.

Global Trade is changing – supply chains are being reconfigured to mitigate risk, technological innovation is enhancing reliability, transparency and resilience, and sustainability will become embedded across entire supply chains.

ADNOC has recently announced its $1 Million Decarbonization Technology Challenge, a global competition to find innovations that will reshape the global energy landscape.

The UK and the UAE held their first strategic dialogue on 15th May

The UAE-UK Business Council hosted a virtual briefing for members on CoP28 on 15 May.

We held our first joint event with the Saudi British Joint Business Council in London on 26 April

The Dubai Sustainable Finance Working Group issued four White Papers on March 14 on Sustainable Investment, ESG and Innovation, Sustainable Issuance and Sustainability Linked Loans.

The UAE-UK Business Council is supporting INNOVATION ZERO, taking place in London on 24-25 May.

We are delighted to be supporting UAE Connect, taking place in Abu Dhabi on 16 May.