Minister of Environment and Climate Change H E Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of QRCS H E Yousef bin Ali Al Khater witnessed the signing ceremony. Assistant Undersecretary for Protection Affairs and Natural Reserves at MoECC Dr. Ibrahim Al Maslamani and QRCS Secretary General Faisal Mohammed Al Emadi signed the agreement respectively on behalf of both sides.
Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) yesterday signed a joint technical cooperation programme with the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) to build joint national capacities in combating the effects of climate change and launching a national climate change e-platform.
The program was signed in the presence of Minister of Environment and Climate Change H E Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie and President of QRCS H E Yousef bin Ali Al Khater.
Assistant Undersecretary for Protection and Natural Reserves Affairs Dr. Ibrahim Abdul Latif Al Muslimani and Secretary-General of the QRCS Faisal Mohamed Al Emadi co-signed the technical cooperation programme.
Additionally, the program aims to leverage the joint technical expertise to back efforts of combating climate change effects, in addition to intensifying the efforts of advancing shared plans aimed at increasing the societal awareness of the risks of these effects.
The program virtually seeks to mitigate the impacts of climate change by focusing on school students, sharing expertise, and building joint capacities to reduce these impacts since climate change is the overwhelming global challenges facing the humanitarian action.
The cooperation includes effective engagement in climate changes relevant discussions abroad through forging cooperation with international organizations, in pursuit of catalyzing the humanitarian action and reorient it toward climatic and environmental crises, by ensuring the documentation of these activities, along with the projects that target those affected by climate change at home and abroad.
Dr. Al Muslimani noted the significance of the national e-platform that will raise the community’s awareness of climate changes and introduce sustainable development, along with its significance for the peoples life, by being the primary steps that spare countries the effects of climate change through promoting the awareness of community members on environment issues and familiarize them with all kinds of environmental pollution and their impacts on human life. He highlighted that the cooperation programme will develop joint plans to raise awareness and impart the Ministry’s expertise to all partners to help adapt to climate change effects.
For his part, Faisal Mohamed Al Emadi said he was glad to sign this programme that would frame the previous joint programme that had generated a multitude of shared initiatives in multiple issues related to serving the community and conserving the environment.
Al Emadi added that the joint technical cooperation aims to leverage the expertise of the two parties in building the community’s capacities to further address climate change as the most dangerous challenges that has been facing humanity in decades, along with its aerial and natural manifestations that largely affect both the community members and their life. — QNA
