This episode is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with MasterCard. Join the #PricelessPlanetCoalition movement with Mastercard to help restore 100 million trees around the world by 2025.

Harmony by H.H. Maryam A. Al Nuaimi aka BlueSheikha 

Harmony blooms when we’re one world,
All together, we create peace.
As one community, we create a masterpiece,
H2O signifies our unity, a beautiful release.
Hydrogen, the essence of a human’s core,
Oxygen, the circle of life in the air.
You may feel lost along the way,
But follow the light, it’ll be your guide.
Water flows through everything we see,
Like freedom, it’s wild, pure, and free.
The vast, endless ocean, so deep and so wide
A source of life’s beauty, in its rolling tide.
Beneath the sky, where raindrops fall,
Children’s laughter is a joyful call.
With the puddles as their playground, they leap and they play
In nature’s gift, on a rainy day.
Our duty it is to protect this grand sea,
For the creatures within it, for you and for me.
To protect our Earth, keep it alive
Climate change is a challenge we must survive. 
Us as climate champions, we must strive.
For guiding us toward a sustainable heart.
In a world where the temperatures rises high,
We take action, to reach towards the sky.
Let’s strive to be greater human beings
Keep the oceans clean, give marine life a chance.
So children will have a world worth promises to keep.

This episode is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with MasterCard. Join the #PricelessPlanetCoalition movement with Mastercard to help restore 100 million trees around the world by 2025.

According to JPMogran, the worldwide digital payments industry is currently estimated at US$ 54 trillion. As this number continues to grow, it provides exciting opportunities to create a massive positive impact across sectors. We talk about the role of the fintech industry in helping us achieve the transition to net zero, and meeting the 2030 and 2050 targets.

This is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with MasterCard. Join the #PricelessPlanetCoalition movement with Mastercard to help restore 100 million trees around the world by 2025.

As Baker Hughes Chief Sustainability Officer, Allyson oversees the company’s energy-transition strategy. We talk about the elephant in the room—fossil fuels and the climate crisis—and the pathways to accelerate the energy transition and achieve net-zero.

This episode is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with MasterCard. Join the #PricelessPlanetCoalition movement with Mastercard to help restore 100 million trees around the world by 2025.

This episode is part of our special series, Climate Leaders – Rising up to COP28. We’re sharing inspiring stories of sustainability leaders and climate champions, driving impact from our region to the world.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with MasterCard. Join the #PricelessPlanetCoalition movement with Mastercard to help restore 100 million trees around the world by 2025.

Ten new episodes, as part of “Climate Leaders- Rising up to COP28” will feature inspiring conversations with climate leaders, champions and changemakers amplifying the much- needed awareness and engaging dialogue around Climate Change and its supporting topics, across industries and sectors,  from the UAE and the region.

Stay tuned as we announce and publish further episodes leading up to COP28 with exciting & inspiring guest appearances from regional climate leaders.

These episodes of the special series have been published so far and are available to listen to:

Special Series Episode Introducing: Climate Leaders- Rising up to Cop28 with Roberta Calarese, the founder of Ghaya, a strategy consultancy aiming to transform businesses into a force for good & embedding leadership with a purpose.

Sheikh Dr Majid Al Qassimi on the Nexus Between Soil Health and Food Security  Sheikh Dr. Majid Sultan Al Qassimi. Until 2021, Dr. Majid was the Advisor to the Minister regarding all things Food and Agriculture, at the UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment. He’s now a founding partner at Soma Mater.

Mohammed Mahmoud, Director of Climate and Water Program at the Middle East Institute on the social and environmental implications of water security in the Middle East.We talk about his role at the Institute studying the region, and to understand the issues we’re seeing both globally and in the region as a result of climate change.

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Stay tuned as we announce and publish further episodes leading up to COP28 with exciting & inspiring guest appearances from regional climate leaders. The Forward Talks podcast episodes are published and available to listen to on the Goumbook website and all major podcast apps such as Apple Podcast, Spotify Google Podcast, Overcast, PocketCasts along with regional apps such as Anghami. We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed producing them! For more information about Goumbook and our Forward Talks podcast, please Contact Us.