Habiba Al Mar’ashi

UAE's Environmental Queen

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Hosted by

Hilmarie Hutchison

Co-Host

Shirin Zemmo

About Habiba Al Mar’ashi

Environmentalist, Co-Founder, and Chairperson of EEG

Habiba is the Co-founder and Chairperson of Emirates Environmental Group (EEG). EEG, is a pioneering non-governmental organisation established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 1991. She single-handedly established the Arabia CSR Network in 2004, as the MENA region’s pioneering and only multi-stakeholder platform with local and multinational entities.

About this Episode

In this episode we talk to Habiba Al Mar’ashi about her incredible and inspiring life. We talk to Habiba about how she founded Emirates Environmental Group, the accomplishments that they have achieved, the challenges they faced, and all the amazing work they continue to do. If you are looking to educate yourself on some of the pressing environmental issues of today and learn about how you can join this green community in the UAE, tune into this episode.

“The main purpose of raising awareness on environmental issues while working with government authorities is to ensure that environmental issues are at the forefront.”
Habiba Al Mar’ashi

“One of my main objectives is to keep the door of Emirates Environmental Group open, to expand it, to make it as relevant as it was when we first established it, to gain the interest of the younger generation and bring them on board.”

– Habiba Al Mar’ashi

Show highlights

We look at the challenges that are out there and we turn these challenges into objectives. - Habiba Al Mar’ashi Click To Tweet

“When you want something and you want it badly, you really work for it and you push boundaries and you scale higher and higher.”

Habiba Al Mar’ashi

“We have it so easy, that we don’t even think about what are the difficulties that go behind the scenes to ensure that we get this high quality water at the touch of our taps. That leaves members of our society over using it, to the level of abusing it. When you have things so easy, you don’t appreciate how it came to you.”
Habiba Al Mar’ashi