Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) organised a workshop to introduce the knowledge portal on climate change that the ministry recently launched, in cooperation with the Our Heritage Centre, a member of Qatar Foundation.
During the workshop, the attendees were introduced to the importance of launching the knowledge portal and facilitating its visit in order to obtain information from its correct sources, and to receive the comments of stakeholders. A discussion took place between the attendees and the presenters of the workshop about the effects of climate change in the State of Qatar and the measures it has taken to prevent these effects in the coming years.
Director of the Green Development and Environmental Sustainability Department at MoECC Dr. Saud bin Khalifa Al Thani said in a statement to mark the occasion that climate change is a global issue and one of the most important challenges of the present time. He called on obtaining accurate information on climate change in order to alleviate and deal with its impact.
Dr. Saud pointed out that policy makers depend on data to understand climate change, evaluate the effectiveness of current policies and formulate new strategies, and that obtaining data on greenhouse gas emissions saves energy consumption and contributes to setting goals and designing policies to mitigate these changes, and assessing progress towards climate goals.
