Canada Pavilion @ Dubai Expo 2020, Dubai, UAE

DUBAI EXPO 2020

SUSTAINABILITY & PUBLIC PARTICIPATION : AN INCLUSIVE SUCCESS FACTOR

Published by : NQ Media Desk

Original Article : Official Expo 2020 Portal

A Blueprint for Sustainability

As the world strives to create a cleaner, safer, healthier future, DubaiEXPO2020, with all its infrastructure, innovations and collaborations, serves as a blueprint towards a viable future, establishing sustainable benchmarks and leaving a meaningful legacy for generations to come.

Discourses of sustainability often reserve a central place for “Citizen Participation & Public Involvement” in the decision-making process. Both, Canada and the UAE are role-model nations, emancipating, encouraging and engaging their citizens and residents, alike, in a democratic engagement that helps think outside the prison of the market, and attend to issues of justice and inclusion in public participation in sustainability decisions. Public participation, like the one DubaiEXPO2020 witnessed, encourages openness, accountability and transparency, and is thus at the heart of inclusive decision-making. The level and the nature of public participation in the local governance issues are often seen as indicators of a healthy civic culture. 


Collective Solutions to Global Challenges

By challenging and addressing key conversations, such as climate change, responsible production, circular economies and ethical fashion, it is imminent that everyone of us embarks on a purposeful journey initiated by the DubaiEXPO2020 and continue to seek collective solutions to global challenges in a culmination of innovation and collaboration.