“From a company point of view, we’re doing what we think is our responsibility” - Nabil Habayeb
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Nabil Habayeb President and CEO, General Electric Middle East The environmental problems in the Middle East are huge, and as of yet we still don’t have a common approach to resolve them. As a technology provider, we at GE are doing everything we can to address these issues, but the key thing is implementation of policies and solutions. This will require a good understanding of the problem by the leadership, a commitment to resolve the problems, and a partnership with all stakeholders — public, private, non-governmental organizations, governmental and financiers — to act accordingly. The main thing is to make sure that we bring awareness and solutions, and have a debate, and come up with reports that focus on the region’s specific issues, in which the different sectors can take an interest. Five years ago our chairman started the “Ecomagination” initiative, which takes the products that we have and invests
