Climate change will alter the position of organisms, their relationship and the timelines for biological events that can transform existing habitats and food webs. The ability of habitats to reduce extreme events and disruptions, such as wildfires, waterfalls and dries, maybe overwhelmed by climate change.

In ecosystems with specific climate conditions, most plants, and animals exist in the same way that any changes in the environment will affect plants, animals and the whole ecosystem. Climate change has shown that it impacts animals and plants in many ways. The effects on global climate change ecosystems have an impact on the productivity of ecosystems or their ability to process chemical elements.

Loss of sea ice, rapid warming and organic input influence the productivity of marine or lake, while the combined impacts of fires and insect outbreaks are decreasing the productivity of forests, especially in the arid and semi-arid western regions. Wild forests are more active because of warming in wetter areas.

The UAE acceded to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer in 1989. Furthermore, it accepted the Montreal Protocol's four amendments. It has been since then exerting enormous efforts to meet its obligations under the convention and the protocol.

In 2005, the UAE ratified the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Convention on Climate Change, becoming one of the first major oil-producing countries to do so.

Vision 2021 seeks to achieve a sustainable infrastructure and climate by 2021. The UAE has developed KPIs to calculate its goals and has also initiated programs and strategies to achieve these goals.

In order to reduce its carbon footprint, the UAE monitors the emission of gases that lead to the greenhouse effect and has reduced its per capita carbon emissions. Due to better technology and transition to more natural gas in power plants, emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) per capita have decreased.

In 1990, the UAE emitted 32.6 tonnes of CO2 per person per year. In 2010, the figure dropped to 21.9 tonnes per person per year.

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