{"id":19162,"date":"2025-10-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/?p=19162"},"modified":"2025-10-29T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T15:06:21","slug":"blooming-futures-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/blooming-futures-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Futures Report: Supporting the UAE\u2019s Journey Toward a Wellbeing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-1536x1011.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-2048x1347.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-mena-stateless\/2025\/10\/d109afb3-p4-page-bloomimg-future-eng-510x336.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><em> The UAE stands at a pivotal moment. The pursuit of ambitious national visions calls for a future defined not just by mitigation, but by regeneration.<br>The prosperity of the next era hinges on the ability to learn from the ultimate master innovator: nature itself. This report charts a course for the UAE to move beyond merely reducing its environmental footprint to actively regenerating its ecological and social health, creating a resilient and inclusive economy.<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n<p>The UAE stands at a pivotal moment. With its ambitious national visions and declining economic reliance on oil, the nation is poised to lead a transformative shift beyond decarbonization toward a regenerative wellbeing economy. This report offers a strategic framework to guide that transition, arguing that the UAE\u2019s future prosperity hinges on its ability to learn from a master innovator: nature itself.<\/p>\n\n<p>We propose a dual framework to operationalize this shift:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Biomimicry:<\/strong> Leveraging 3.8 billion years of nature\u2019s R&amp;D to design resilient, circular systems that thrive in scarcity, much like the UAE\u2019s own desert ecosystems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>The commons:<\/strong> Reviving Emirati and Islamic traditions of shared stewardship (amana) and collaborative governance (shura) to manage resources equitably and build social cohesion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Our analysis reveals that while pioneering projects in the UAE, such as the Al Bahar Towers, demonstrate that this model works, they remain isolated examples. The main barrier is not a lack of vision or resources, but a series of systemic gaps: regulations that favor efficiency over empathy, financial models that prioritize short-term returns over long-term wellbeing, and urban planning that still defaults to environmentally inefficient, socially isolating sprawl.<\/p>\n\n<p>This report provides an actionable roadmap to bridge these gaps. Key recommendations include:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mainstreaming biomimicry and commons principles into national policy and urban codes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pioneering innovative financial instruments such as \u201cWellbeing sukuk\u201d and green waqf endowments.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Building capacity through knowledge commons and education reforms that blend traditional wisdom with modern science.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Measuring what matters by co-creating a National Wellbeing Index that tracks ecological health and social cohesion alongside economic metrics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The opportunity is profound. By embedding these principles into its economic DNA, the UAE can move beyond mitigating its environmental footprint to actively regenerating it, creating a prosperous, resilient, and inclusive model that is both authentically Emirati and globally relevant. This is the call to action: to build an economy that does not merely exist in the environment but functions like one.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For more information and to access the full report:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/WEreportEG\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The report in English<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/WEexecutive_summary_EG\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Report\u2019s Summary in English<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/WEreportAR\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0631\u064a\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-cta\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/WEexecutive_summary_AR\" style=\"text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>&nbsp;\u0645\u0644\u062e\u0635 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0642\u0631\u064a\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report, titled &#8220;Beyond Extractivism: Towards a Feminist and Just Economic Transition in Morocco and Egypt\u201d, challenges the widely held belief that European investments create mutual benefits. Instead, it reveals how these investments in oil, gas, renewable energy, green hydrogen, and agriculture in Morocco and Egypt often perpetuate unfair resource exploitation, with wealth and benefits flowing to the Global North\u2014while contributing little to local economies. Rather than fostering sustainable development, these investments drain natural resources and exacerbate environmental degradation in the host countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"Blooming Futures Report: Supporting the UAE\u2019s Journey Toward a Wellbeing Economy","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"Wellbeing Economy ","p4_local_project":"WE","p4_basket_name":"Good Life","p4_department":"MENA","footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[257,69,71,101],"p4-page-type":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-19162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-greenpeace-middle-east-and-north-africa","8":"tag-en-climate","9":"tag--en","11":"tag-greenpeace","12":"p4-page-type-publication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19162"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19283,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19162\/revisions\/19283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19162"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=19162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}