Qatar Highlights National Strategy to Address Global Warming

Qatar Highlights National Strategy to Address Global Warming

Geneva /Information Office / 06 March 2015/ Qatar has adopted a national program for food security and a national strategy that aims to secure the country's needs of food in a bid to reduce the impact of climate change on the right to food, Noor Al Sada, second secretary at Qatar's permanent delegation to Geneva, said Friday addressing the 28th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) within the article on human rights and global warming. Al Sada said the program functions based on the activation of food's four main sectors, namely: agriculture, water, renewable energy and food manufacturing. She added that Qatar has paid special attention nationally and globally to the issue of global warming and its repercussions, noting that Qatar National Vision 2030 reaffirmed in its fourth pillar the need to deal with domestic environmentalist issues related to global warming and its prospective effects. Taking into consideration the relationship between global warming and its effect on enjoying human rights, Al Sada added, each country must shoulder its responsibilities and duties established in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in protecting earth and its inhabitants from that phenomenon. Concluding her speech, Al Sada wished the talks will boost the spirit of solidarity and cooperation among all parties so as to enhance international efforts aiming at putting in place fairer and more convenient measures that limit the effect of global warming.