Sustainability spectacle and ‘post-oil’ greening initiatives

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Figure 1. Terra – the sustainability pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai. Source: Author’s photograph, January 2022.

Figure 2. Opening image to an article about the UAE’s sustainability initiatives, featuring a rendering of EXPO 2020ʹs sustainability pavilion. Source: WFES (2022), 10 (author’s photograph, fair use).

Figure 3. Opening image to an article about the UAE’s sustainability initiatives, featuring a rendering of EXPO 2020ʹs mobility pavilion. Source: Rotana (2020), 24–25 (author’s photograph, fair use).

Figure 4. EXPO ’67 postcard of the U.S. pavilion designed by Buckminster fuller. Source: Fair Use.

Figure 5. Hydraloop speaker referencing Sheikh Zayed at the world future energy summit. Source: Author, January 2022.

Figure 6. The Zayed sustainability prize ceremony at WFES in 2019 (top left), and various images from the WFES event in 2020. Source: Author, January 2019, 2020.

Figure 7. Advertisement for the 2019 ADSW festival at Masdar City (right) and scenes from the event. Source: Author’s photographs, January 2019.

Figure 8. Advertisement for the Al maktoum solar park (left), images from inside the Innovation Center lobby (bottom center, top right), cover of Dubai Carbon’s state of green economy report 2020 (top center), and a Tweet about Sheikh Mohammad’s inauguration of the solar park’s Innovation Center. Source: Author’s photographs and screenshots, January 2022.

WFES, 2022. The future of sustainable living. World Future Energy Summit Daily News (Day 2, 18 January 2022), p. 10.

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