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cooperation with the International Organizations and International Agencies concerned with
the affairs of environment and climate change. The State of Qatar is one of first countries
who joined the UN framework convention on the climate change in 1996, Kyoto protocol in
2005, Paris Agreement in 2016, with ratification of the Agreement in 2017, as well as
hosting the conference of the Eighteenth Partners for the Climate Change “COP18” in
2012, considered the global stations of negotiations of the Climate change contributed to
Paris Convention.
One of the remarkable efforts of the State of Qatar in the field of Climate Change is the
project using compressed Natural Gas as energy in the transportation sector which aims to
develop Compressed Natural Gas as an alternative energy to reduce the emission of Heating
Gases.
Hamad International Airport is the first Air-port in the region achieving the third level of
‘levels of improvement” in the program of approval of the Carbon Emission of the air-ports
supervised by the Global Council of Air-ports. The accreditation approves the commitment
of Hamad International Air-port to tackle the Climate Change based on continuous
measuring of Carbon Emissions in the air-port in addition to implementing a program to
reduce energy on the level of the air-port level and to involve the stakeholders in measuring
and administration of the emissions in relation to the Air-Port.
The launch of the State of Qatar of a project establishing a solar power station represents an
important step along the road to diversify the state resources of electrical energy and
increasing the dependency on sources of renewal energy. Launching the project of electric
buses operation also came to enhance sustainable transportation in the state and to
interconnect it in order to achieve integration with the Doha Metro Project in the
framework of the exerted efforts to reduce the emission of air pollution as regards
transportation.
The project of reforming and re-use of Gas of AL Shaheen oil field came as a project of
clean development mechanism since 2007 in the framework of the UN Framework
Convention for the Climate Change as the mechanisms established to reduce the Emission
the of Buried Gases on the international level. The project aims to reduce the burning of the
Associated Gas and thus reducing emission of the Buried Gases.
The Facility of re-using the Evaporated Gas during loading which started operation in the
last quarter of 2014, is one of the biggest environmental projects in the State of Qatar as it
collects the Evaporated Gas from the carriers of the liquefied Natural Gas and compresses
it in a central facility in order that the compressed gas be transmitted to the producer of
the Liquefied Natural Gas to be consumed in the form of energy or again be transformed to
Liquefied Natural Gas thus reducing the emission of the Carbon Dioxide by more than 2,5
tons annually which contributes to reducing greenhouse Gas Emission.
Also, among efforts of the State of Qatar in the field of environmental change is the launch
of Um Al Howial station for energy, which is the biggest energy station in the Middle-East.
The plant is characterized by high productivity, using the best environment-friendly
techniques in the field of water desalination and also using of clean Natural Gas to reduce
emissions.
Concerning efforts of tackling the phenomena of the Climate Change, the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs and Environment launched “million tree” initiative, which is a social
initiative that aims to enhance the environmental sustainability and it has many benefits
represented in adapting with the expected effects of the phenomena of Climate Change,
reducing of the emissions and improving air quality.
In the field of observation and the environmental lab, the draft of “Report of the State of the
Environment of the State of Qatar, has been finalized, and this Environmental Report is
most important internationally as it is the evaluation of different environment aspects which
includes air quality, marine environment and others, noting that the report methodology
was based on the established framework of the UN Environment Program “UNEP”.
In this regard a national network for continuous observation of air quality of the State of
Qatar was established, eighteen stations were connected to the national network for
continuous observation of the air quality surrounding the state, also four stations of
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