Masdar City, United Arab Emirates - towards a One Planet Living Community

On January 8th 2008 eco-community experts BioRegional, WWF, and the government of Abu Dhabi launched a “Sustainability Action Plan” to deliver the world’s greenest city – Masdar City.

Masdar City will be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste, car-free city. BioRegional has led the development of an ambitious Sustainability Action Plan aiming to enable One Planet Living® at Masdar, in association with developers Mubadala, their Foster & Partners – led masterplanning team and WWF UAE.

Masdar has been benchmarked against the global network of One Planet Living Communities being developed by BioRegional with developer partners.

Housed in six-square kilometres, Masdar City’s electricity and cooling will be provided by renewable energy generated on site. Water consumption will be reduced by over 50% compared to the Abu Dhabi baseline. Landscaping within the site will be irrigated with grey water and treated waste water produced by the city’s water treatment plant. Ground breaks for the construction of the city in 2008.

The city is part of the Masdar Initiative, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted, multi-billion dollar investment in the exploration, development and commercialisation of future energy sources and clean technology solutions. A model of the Masdar City will be unveiled on January 21, at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.

For further information:

Visit BioRegional’s one planet living UAE page.

Visit Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC), a company wholly-owned by the government of Abu Dhabi through Mubadala Development Company.