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Qatar to accelerate work towards CO2 emissions reduction targets
The Peninsula, 05 Sep 2022
Qatar will soon implement 35 environmental initiatives, identified by the National Action Plan for Climate Change, in a bid to accelerate the process to achieve country's greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, Minister of Environment and Climate Change H E Sheikh Dr. Faleh bin Nasser bin Ahmed Al Thani has said.
Qatar’s National Environment and Climate Change Strategy, launched in October 2021, aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25% by 2030, enhance ambient air quality standards and update limit values by 2024 among other targets. The Minister was speaking to media on the sidelines of an event on ‘Qatar’s Climate Leadership and Road to COP27’ held in Doha yesterday.
The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, will take place from November 7 to 18, 2022, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
The event was organised by the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in coordination with Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI).
Minister of Municipality, H E Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie; Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Climate Change and Sustainability, H E Bader Omar Ismail Al Dafa; and a number of officials and guests attended the event. “The office of GGGI has been launched officially in Doha. Five projects about protecting environment and climate change will be implemented in Qatar during the next three years. The projects will focus on addressing climate change, natural reserves, air quality and ecosystem,” said the Minister.
