COP28: Must-see attractions in the Green Zone, Expo City Dubai

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As the weekend nears and with just few days left for COP28 to end, make sure you don’t miss a visit to these 10 places and exhibits at the Green Zone at Expo City Dubai.  Gulf News puts together a list, take a look.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/cop28-ten-things-not-to-miss-at-green-zone-expo-city-dubai-1.99797240  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #cop28 #Dubai

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00:00The reason why we decided at Expo City Dubai to have a pavilion is because the delegates

00:13who are coming in to attend COP28 might not necessarily know the story of the place that

00:17they're visiting.

00:18Our objective in putting an exhibition together within the context of our program and all

00:23of our events that we're hosting in this venue is to really tell the story of the sustainable

00:28city that we have built over the last decade and what are the things that we have done,

00:33where are we today and where are we going tomorrow.

00:35So the components of the exhibition are truly sustainable, 100% recyclable or recycled materials,

00:42really trying to showcase what the future of exhibition could look like in a more sustainable

00:47world but also tell the story of how we built Expo City Dubai.

00:52It's built environment, it's physical infrastructure, what are the elements that comprise that physicality

00:58how do we operate sustainably, how do we create experiences like Tara, like Aleph who many

01:05people would remember from Expo 2020 days.

01:08What are the new additional layers of experience and program and events that we're hosting

01:13at Expo City Dubai today and tomorrow.

01:15So as you go through the experience you will hear about all of our big programs and flagship

01:21events that we're planning to host in 2024 so we're very active, we're very open, we're

01:26open to receiving our exhibitions and those that you're familiar with but also new events

01:30and activities that we're continuously bringing on stream so there's just lots to do here

01:37and as we move forward.

01:39The pavilion really takes you through a journey of Expo 2020, what our legacy intention always

01:44was and how we have fulfilled that legacy.

01:47So first of all you're standing under Salama who is the tree, the gaff tree that we found

01:52on the site when we first identified the site to build it 10 years ago and the idea

01:56of really putting a gaff tree at the centre of the exhibition is to showcase how the gaff

02:01tree is itself used in so many different ways in Emirati culture and tradition as you sit

02:07under the gaff tree, as you use the materials of the gaff tree, as it provides shade and

02:10shelter and then it sort of takes you on a journey of innovation and technology, how

02:15we fuse that into the city and put the human first through the technology solutions we're

02:20putting in place.

02:22You have the opportunity to plant a pledge and then if you plant a pledge and you give

02:27us your name we will plant a tree in your name in Expo City and so there are these little

02:33gestures but also experiences, you can put on the Al-Wasl AV experience and sit in the

02:38context of Al-Wasl and experience it.

02:41You'll see elements like surreal waterfall, so there's some educational components, some

02:47experiential components but you can smell frankincense and really get a feeling of the

02:52city being back in Expo City again.

04:23This is our single seater, it's basically an electric helicopter that is simple, silent,

04:30affordable for everyone, purely electric, zero emission, automatically flying and we

04:36are happy to launch that here in the region.

04:39This is our 1969 variant, it's a fully electric motorcycle, it's fully automatic, it has no

04:45clutch, no gear, goes up to 100 kilometres on a single charge.

04:49We use lithium batteries for the top motors, the top speed of the motorcycle is also about

04:54100.

04:55We have three modes, there's Ford, Eco and Reverse and if you get pleased by this you

05:00can feel retro when it goes down.

05:02We have here our electrified turbine factory.

05:05So our project is basically to retrofit the diesel trucks that we use internally within

05:11our ports to convert them to electrical and the plan is to convert 40% of our internal

05:18vehicles within 2030.

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