Hospitality is entering a more exacting phase of its sustainability work. In the UAE, hotels are responding to tighter waste rules, sharper expectations from owning groups, and rising scrutiny around environmental claims.

The revised CSDDD now applies to companies with over 5,000 employees and €1.5 billion in turnover, with application from July 2029. The businesses most directly affected are the largest European multinationals and the largest UAE and GCC conglomerates with significant EU revenues.

For years, talk of U.S. ambitions in the Arctic had been treated as provocation. That changed after Washington’s dramatic intervention in Venezuela…