DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) will organise today a workshop on the preparation of the national strategy to combat desertification.
The workshop will be attended by the Ministry’s Assistant Under-Secretary for Environment Affairs, Eng. Ahmed Mohammed Al Sada, an expert from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and a number of experts in this field in addition to officials from the Ministry, said a release.
The three-day workshop will feature an awareness lecture on the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, projects of rehabilitation of vegetation cover in Qatar and the water resources in Qatar.
It will also focus on practical work on the data required for the seventh National Report on Combating Desertification, method of writing national reports on combating desertification and the standards and plan of action of the national strategy to combat desertification.
The Ministry of Municipality and Environment has adopted a number of important desertification-related projects and programmes aimed at developing land and grasslands in the Qatari environment, enhancing the revitalisation capacity of Qatari nurseries, utilising treated water in irrigation and planting trees and wild shrubs and distributing them to various nurseries in the country.
