Sheikhs in Pursuit of Cleaner Energy in Middle East

Gulf states have started taking interest in achieving a cleaner energy. Though for those countries that have highest per capita carbon emission in the entire world, the effort will certainly not be an easy one.

The emirates or Sheikhs, as they are better known, have started taking interest in a cleaner environment. Even if the nobleness of the intention is kept in mind, the statistics remains full of unfriendly data. The region, for an example, happens to be the one with highest per capita carbon emission in the world. The emirates thus, as pointed out by various reports, have an extremely difficult task at their hand for an effective 'green revolution'. The intention of having a greener and cleaner environment, reportedly struck the leadership of this region, soon after it became clearer that oil is a finite resource. Therefore the supremacy built on anything dependent on oil could be vulnerable to competition from new energy sources just a few years down the line. And thus, the effort of becoming the second most sought after place in alternative energy studies just after the US, as the President-elect Mr. Barack Obama has pushed more and more green jobs for Americans to defeat the recession, has been mounted up on a war footing. As some detailed reports show, the sheikhs are aggressively pouring billions of dollars, generated through the oil fields, into new green technologies. Not only that, the sheikhs are establishing numerous billion-dollar clean-technology investment funds. The reports further suggest that the emirates are putting millions of dollars for the research project programs at prominent universities throughout the world. The reports finally added that the sheikhs, in their own backyard, are busy setting up green research parks in huge number. Interested journalists asked Mr. Khaled Awad, one of the directors of Masdar, a city as well as a research, on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. He reportedly stated that Abu Dhabi was an oil-exporting country and they were interested to be an energy-exporting country. He added further that while doing so, they require excelling at all possible forms of newly explored energies.