AMMAN — Advantage Austria Jordan, the
Commercial Section of the
Austrian Embassy in Amman, awarded SOLVillion Co, and
EcoPeace Middle East with the National Energy Globe Award 2022 for Jordan, the
Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
اضافة اعلان
SOLVillion Co, and EcoPeace Middle East are two
Jordanian sustainable initiatives in the field of greentech, and renewable
energy.
An Austrian Embassy statement on Monday said its
Commercial Counselor Herwig Neuper, Ambassador Oskar Wustinger, and
Representative of the UN Industrial Development Organization Sulafa Mdanat
handed the awards to the winners.
They were namely Aia Abul-Haj, SOLVillion’s business
development manager, and Yana Abu Taleb, director of EcoPeace Middle East in
Jordan, the local implementing partner of Global Nature Fund.
SOLVillion won the award with its project of a
decentralized wastewater treatment system for rural areas in Jordan, while
EcoPeace for a decentralized solar energy supply for a wastewater treatment
plant in the Jordan Valley.
The most important companies, organizations and
known personalities in the field of environment and energy in Jordan were
present at the event, which took place at the Austrian envoy’s residence in
Amman.
With more than 180 participating countries, the
Energy Globe Award is the most prestigious environmental award worldwide,
founded by the Energy Globe Foundation in Austria 22 years ago, the statement
said.
Committed people worldwide develop solutions for the
most pressing environmental problems of our time, like resource scarcity, air
and water pollution, erosion, climate change or dependence on fossil fuels, it
added.
Although these solutions are readily available, they
often remain unheard of. To that end, Energy Globe gives them a voice and
presents them to a large audience to make them visible and encourage others to
come up with their own innovative solution.
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