Future Sustainability Forum (FSF)

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ESG

Environmental, Social and Governance criteria that investors, lenders and regulators use to score a company beyond its financials. At a sustainability forum, ESG is the common language linking corporate disclosure practice with the capital that green bonds, green sukuk and ESG funds allocate.

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Scope 3 emissions

The indirect greenhouse gas emissions that sit in a company's value chain - purchased goods, logistics, business travel, sold products in use. Scope 3 usually dominates a Gulf industrial or retail group's footprint, which is why supply-chain emissions data and MRV tools are a core exhibit category at this show.

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Net zero

A target state in which the greenhouse gases released are balanced by removals or offsets over a defined period, usually 2050. In the UAE context, net zero commitments sit alongside national strategies and corporate transition plans, so sessions on target setting, credibility and disclosure are relevant to both exhibitors and visiting buyers.

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Green sukuk

A Sharia-compliant fixed-income certificate whose proceeds are ring-fenced for eligible green projects such as renewable generation, clean transport or water efficiency. Green sukuk is the Gulf's characteristic route from sustainability strategy to project finance and appears in this forum's finance-focused content.

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Transition finance

Capital raised specifically to move a high-emitting asset, company or sector onto a lower-carbon pathway, rather than to fund already-green activity. Relevant to oil and gas, cement, aluminium and shipping companies in the region that need credible decarbonisation roadmaps before lenders will commit.

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Carbon credits and Article 6

Tradeable units representing one tonne of CO2 avoided, reduced or removed. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets rules for country-to-country transfers, and voluntary market registries operate alongside it. Exhibitors in this space typically offer project development, verification and retirement platforms.

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MRV (measurement, reporting and verification)

The audit trail behind any emissions or credit claim: how data is measured, how it is reported and how an independent body verifies it. MRV capability is what separates defensible net zero and carbon credit positions from marketing statements, and it underpins the carbon accounting software and assurance services exhibited here.

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CCUS

Carbon capture, utilisation and storage: technologies that separate CO2 from industrial flue gas or process streams and either store it geologically or convert it into products. Gulf hydrocarbon and cement producers treat CCUS as a central lever, making it one of the industrial decarbonisation themes on the exhibition floor.

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Green hydrogen

Hydrogen produced by electrolysis powered by renewable electricity, so that its lifecycle emissions are low. In the Gulf, green and blue hydrogen projects are pitched at export markets as well as domestic industry, and they connect the energy, water and finance strands of this forum.

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Circular economy

A production and consumption model that keeps materials in use through reuse, repair, remanufacturing and recycling instead of disposal. For exhibitors, this covers waste-to-value plant, recycling technology, packaging redesign and reverse logistics, all of which are commercial categories at the show.

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ISSB standards (IFRS S1 and S2)

The sustainability and climate disclosure standards issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board, intended to sit alongside financial reporting. They influence what Gulf listed companies and their suppliers must publish, which is why ESG reporting and data assurance vendors attend a show like this.

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Embodied carbon

The emissions associated with extracting, manufacturing, transporting and installing building materials, before a building is even occupied. Relevant to developers, contractors and green building material suppliers present at the exhibition, and increasingly part of Dubai and Abu Dhabi green building requirements.

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Climate adaptation

Adjustments that reduce harm from climate impacts already locked in - extreme heat, water scarcity, flash flooding and coastal risk. In the Gulf, adaptation shows up in cooling design, water reuse, resilient infrastructure and early-warning systems rather than in carbon accounting alone.