Why Partner with ADMI?
As a partner of the Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative (ADMI) you can ensure that your investment will have measurable positive impact on nature and people and contribute to effective climate change action, supporting the UAE’s national climate goals. You will be partnering with the leading environmental agency in the region, the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), gaining recognition through formal events, including media events, international conferences, ADMI presentations and promotional materials and promoting environmental awareness and engagement among staff.
Join the ADMI as a Corporate Partner
Corporate Partners directly support at least one ADMI identified coastal/blue carbon /nature-based solution project locally or globally (a research, education, conservation, or restoration project on coastal and marine ecosystems). Joining the ADMI as a Corporate Partner enables you to validate your restoration project, obtain scientific guidance and technical oversight, attend ADMI partner meetings, communicate credible scientific and accurate information about your project in coordination with EAD as well as review and evaluate the outcomes of your restoration project following implementation.
By signing the ADMI Pledge, Corporate Members are committed to having a net positive impact on nature and reducing their carbon footprint, reducing their emissions, and enhancing operations and activities to ensure a low carbon and climate resilient economy that values and preserves nature.
Corporate Partners
Partner with ADMI as a Sponsor
Sponsors are partners that provide in kind or financial contributions to support the activities, initiatives, or programmes under the ADMI.
Sponsors will be recognised for their partnership, commitment to ADMI and contribution that helps fund:
- Capital and operational costs involved in establishing a state-of-the-art mangrove nursery and innovation centre in Abu Dhabi.
- Manpower, training, and technical workshops required to build capacity and foster innovation.
Sponsors
Scientific Partners Supporting ADMI
Scientific Partners advise on the technical elements that support the implementation of the ADMI programme e.g., supporting the development of capacity building tools developed by ADMI. Their scientific and technical expertise on mangrove and blue carbon ecosystem conservation, research and restoration is part of an ongoing or planned collaboration programme under the ADMI. The strategic workplan is steered by the ADMI steering committee, ADMI’s founding institutions of EAD and Zoological Society of London.
Scientific Partners
Information About Our Scientific Partners:
The United Nations Ocean Decade Programme for Blue Carbon in the Global Ocean (GO-BC) is honoured to be partnering with the Abu Dhabi Mangrove Initiative. The GO-BC science technical working group are available to support blue carbon science needs for global mangrove restoration initiatives (and connected blue carbon ecosystems), ensuring that robust evidence is available to support projects and communities where blue carbon outcomes are
sought to demonstrate additionality and permanence. The GO-BC secretariat and lead are based at the University of St Andrews, United Kingdom and can be contacted directly through they would be delighted to hear from you and connect you with the growing global network of blue carbon experts or the new blue carbon capacity-building partnership with WWF.
The Global Coastal Wetlands Lab is an international group undertaking multi-disciplinary research to further biodiversity conservation and restoration of coastal wetlands. Bringing together experts from leading academic institutions and conservation organisations, they focus on the themes of Restoration and Conservation Innovation, Ecosystem Services, People and Nature and Coastal Ecosystem Mapping at landscape and global scales. The Global Coastal Wetlands Lab is part of the Conservation Science Group at the University of Cambridge.
Emirates Nature-WWF is an environmental NGO charity established to conserve the United Arab Emirates’ natural heritage and build a future where people and nature thrive. The organisation was founded in 2001 by their President and Honorary Founder, H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Ruler’s Representative in the Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, as a legacy of the late Sheikh Zayed’s vision for the United Arab Emirates. For two decades, Emirates Nature-WWF has been a prominent and active partner in environmental conservation in the MENA region. They work in association with WWF, one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations. As a local conservation think-tank and pioneers of the “Leaders of Change” programme, the world’s first-ever digital membership platform for the environment – they empower, convene and mobilise civil society, government entities and businesses to support the UAE’s sustainability agenda and deliver transformative impact at scale for the benefit of people and planet alike. Learn more about the “Leaders of Change” programme at www.leadersofchange.ae , or their various other projects at www.emiratesnaturewwf.ae.
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is a rallying call for the protection and revival of ecosystems all around the world, for the benefit of people and nature. It aims to halt the degradation of ecosystems and restore them to achieve global goals. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global authority on the environment. UNEP’s mission is to inspire, inform, and enable nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
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