Doha: Qatar will participate along with Arab countries in commemorating the Arab Environment Day, which falls on October 14 of every year, the anniversary of the first Arab ministerial conference on Arab environmental issues in 1986 in Tunisia.
Arab countries traditionally celebrated the occasion under a different theme every year, focussing on an important environmental issue that concerns Arab countries and citizens.
The Ministry of Environment stressed in a statement that Qatar’s participation in such events comes within the frame of the keenness of the wise leadership of the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and the Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on protecting the environment and maintaining its natural resources.
The Ministry stressed that the environment is a key element in the national strategy and one of the four pillars of the Qatar National Vision 2030, adding that it adopts several projects and programmes that aim at the protection of the environment, the conservation of natural resources, fighting all kinds of pollution sources, and protecting the health and safety of the community, in order to preserve a renewed environmental yield for present and future generations.
The Ministry added that it assumed the responsibility of environmental awareness as a cornerstone of preserving the environment, noting that this year’s celebration is special as Qatar hosts the Climate Change Conference (COP18) at the end of the year, which is one of the important issues that concerns environmentalists on a global level.
Doha: A regional workshop on “updating GCC science, technology and invention indicators” will kick off in Doha tomorrow.
The two-day event is co-organised by Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA) and the Unesco Institute for Statistics (UIS) and will be attended by a number of experts working in the research strategies and experimental development and other senior officials working in science, technology and invention indicators.
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