Cairo, Presided over by the Egyptian side, the 22nd meeting of the Environment Technical Committee of the Council of Arab Ministers in charge of Environment (CAMRE) kicked off here today, to prepare for the 57th meeting of the Executive Office of Arab Environment Ministers, which will be held next Wednesday followed the day after by the 32nd session of the Council of Arab Ministers in charge of Environment (CAMRE).
The Kingdom’s delegation was headed by the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture’s Director General of Climate Change and Environmental Agreements Abdo bin Qassim Al-Sharif.
Arab League’s Director of Environment and Meteorology Dr. Mahmoud Fathallah, said, in a statement, that the committee, over the past three days, discussed several topics on the agenda of the ministerial session, including addressing climate change challenges and preparations for the 26th session of the signatories of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which will be held by the end of this month in Glasgow, UK, and following-up the environmental dimension related issues in the sustainable development goals and the Arab stance concerning all environmental agreements related to desertification and biodiversity.
Fathallah pointed out that the committee is also discussing the environmental situation in Palestine, the occupied Syrian Arab Golan Heights, Sudan, Somalia, Comoros, Djibouti, Libya, Yemen, Jordan, and Lebanon, and following up the implementation of decisions of the Arab economic and social development summits, especially the green belt projects and the strategic framework for solid waste management in various Arab regions.
Source: Saudi Press Agency
