Doha, HE Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Sheikh Dr. Faleh bin Nasser bin Ahmed bin Ali Al-Thani affirmed Sunday the State of Qatar’s commitment to achieving sustainability and supporting innovative solutions to address climate challenges that cause desertification and threaten the security of water, food, and energy, highlighting the country’s 25-year penchant for environmental preservation since it signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1996.
This came in His Excellencys speech at the opening of the third Qatar National Dialogue on Climate Change – a two-day event organized by Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Earthna Center, the French Embassy in Doha, the French Business Council in Qatar, and Qatar National Bank (QNB), as part of Expo 2023 Doha.
His Excellency highlighted the State of Qatars unrelented efforts to enhance sustainability and reduce emissions through tangible on-the-ground moves including setting up eco-friendly urban cities that merge green technology with u
rban design such as Lusail City and Msheireb Downtown Doha, the Doha Metro network to promote green transportation, the 800-mw Al Kharsaah solar power plant on an area of 10 square kilometers. His Excellency also took a lot of pride in Doha’s hosting of the most sustainable World Cup in FIFA history, where the country set a new global standard for sustainability and environmental preservation.
His Excellency expressed happiness at the opening of the third Qatar National Dialogue on Climate Change, which discusses one of the current most pressing problems, and the significant climate change impacts across the world including rising temperatures, extreme weather, loss of biodiversity, and others that threaten economies and eco systems.
The world needs further efforts and work to address this problem and mitigate its severity for healthy, safe and prosperous future generations, His Excellency said, reiterating Qatars commitment and determination to address and adapt to climate change through collaboration amon
g research and academic institutions, companies, government and private agencies.
His Excellency voiced hopes that the event, which has evolved into a platform for experts to discuss and explore innovative solutions to the difficult global challenges, would contribute to bringing about positive change and tangible results that help cut back on the climate change effects.
The outcomes of the deliberations will play a fundamental role in formulating the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change’s methodology regarding sustainability issues, and putting frameworks for participation in the COP28 conference due in the UAE in late 2023, in a bid to keep the rising global temperatures below 1.5 degree Celsius and mobilize the necessary funding by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement goals. (MORE)
Source: Qatar News Agency