Spotlight on MEASA 2024

Pentagreen Capital (“Pentagreen”), is a debt financing platform dedicated to accelerating the development of sustainable infrastructure in Asia, with an initial focus on Southeast Asia. Its objective is to catalyse financing for “marginally bankable” clean infrastructure projects to help advance climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts and, more broadly, achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

Best-selling author and journalist Christopher McDougall once wrote: “Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest Lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a Lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest Gazelle, or it will starve’.

The cultural and economic history of the UAE and the region is inextricably linked to its marine heritage and its marine ecosystem. Located on the southern side of the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE is at the crossroads of major trade routes and serves as a vital gateway for trade between the east and the west.