Federal Decree-Law No. (11) of 2024 on the Reduction of Climate Change Effects

Potentially relevant to persons whose UAE activities release greenhouse gases, including in free zones. Detailed MRV duties arise only after the Ministry and the competent authority determine the Source. UAE incorporation or a trade licence alone is not treated here as that determination.

Entity types

• Public and private legal persons whose activities release greenhouse gases
• Individual enterprises whose activities release greenhouse gases
• Sources in free zones
• Sources later determined by the Ministry and the competent authority for MRV

Conditions

• The person falls within the Article 1 definition of a Source.
• For measurement, inventory, periodic reports and the five-year record duty, the Source has been determined by the Ministry and the competent authority in coordination with the concerned entity.
• Competent authority means the local authority concerned in each emirate, including free zones.
• No company-specific filing calendar was identified in the Decree-Law text reviewed.

• Article 3: the Decree-Law applies to Sources in the State, including free zones.
• Article 1 defines Sources as public and private legal persons, and individual enterprises, whose operations or activities release greenhouse gases.
• Article 4: Sources shall contribute to reducing their emissions toward climate neutrality, through one or more listed means. The Ministry may later issue controls and standards for those means.
• Article 5: the Cabinet, on a Ministry proposal, determines national sectoral emission-reduction targets. That is a government target-setting duty, not a company filing form.
• Article 6: Sources determined by the Ministry and the competent authority must measure emissions, prepare an inventory, submit periodic reports to the standards those authorities specify, submit activity and reduction data, and keep measurement records for five years.
• Article 6 does not, in the reviewed text, name a universal calendar filing day or deem every licensee a determined Source.
• Article 7 assigns adaptation planning to the competent authority and concerned entities in specified sectors, coordinated with the Ministry.
• Article 10(3): the Ministry shall establish and manage the National Carbon Credit Registry.
• Article 15 sets a criminal fine range for Sources that violate Article 6(1). Article 17 says administrative penalties are to be set later by Cabinet resolution.

No confirmed company-specific filing or compliance date identified.

Other dated events

• 28 August 2024Issued date stated on the official legislation portal (effective, confirmed). This is the issue date, not the entry-into-force date. Official Gazette date on the portal is 30 August 2024 (Gazette No. 782).
• 30 May 2025Entry into force. Article 21: nine months after publication. Portal effective date: 30 May 2025. (effective, confirmed). Entry into force is not a company filing deadline. No universal annual return date was identified.

No separate reporting period was identified beyond the duties described above.

• Map whether any activity releases greenhouse gases and which emirate competent authority is relevant, including free-zone authorities.
• Do not build a compliance position that assumes an annual federal GHG return is already due from every company.
• Watch for Ministry or competent-authority determinations, forms and later resolutions before locking a reporting calendar.
• Keep any emissions measurements that are already made, because determined Sources must retain records for five years.

1. Ask legal and operations owners whether any site has been determined, notified or registered for Article 6 measurement and reporting.
2. Identify the competent authority for each emirate or free zone where activities take place.
3. If a notice exists, review its text before adopting any deadline. This navigator does not validate notices.
4. Separate this framework from exchange ESG guidance and from customer carbon questionnaires.

• Article 1
• Article 3
• Article 4
• Article 5
• Article 6
• Article 7
• Article 10
• Article 15
• Article 21

No amendment was verified for this record.

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• UAE Legislation portal — Federal Decree-Law on the Reduction of Climate Change Effectsprimary · Issued 28 Aug 2024; effective 30 May 2025; Gazette No. 782 dated 30 Aug 2024; status Active
• Official English text download — Federal Decree-Law No. (11) of 2024primary · Articles 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 17 and 21

• 13 October 2026 — Initial navigator record. Status, dates and Article 6 designation limit checked against the legislation portal and the official English text.