Part 1: Economic Outlook 2021 - 2023
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Box 1-8
: Qatar’s Environment and Climate Change Policies
The issue of climate change has received special attention from the United Nations since
the 1992 Climate Conference Agreement in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, known as the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which the State of Qatar
ratified on April 18, 1996, and on January 11, 2005, it approved its amendments, the most
important of which is the Kyoto protocol of December 1997. The State of Qatar also
participated in all the 25 subsequent conferences (known as the Conference of the
Parties), and even hosted Conference No. (18) in Doha in 2012, participated in Paris
Conference No. (21), and signed the Paris Agreement on April 22, 2016, and approved it
on June 23, 2017. It also participated in the Glasgow Conference No. (26), which was
held in November 2021. It is planned to hold No. (27) in Egypt in November 2022.
Despite the development of knowledge of the causes of the climate crisis, their sources
and proposals to treat and adapt to them remained as stipulated in the Convention in
1992. With regard to treatment, the main goal is to stabilize greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere at levels that would prevent catastrophic damage to the
climate system, both by industrialized countries, designated Annex I Parties, and
developing countries, designated Annex II Parties.
As for the implementation procedures, they were limited to the following commitments: (1)
preparing periodic reports called “national communication” containing information on GHG
emissions, and to implement national programs and measures to control GHG emissions,
(2 providing an overview of an adaptation plan to cope with the effects of climate change
in the short-run, and to work toward developing and using the latest technologies as long
as it does not cause climate harm, (3) establish a public education program for educating
the public and increase their awareness on climate change and its impacts, (4) The
commitment of Annex I countries (States Parties) to take policies and measures with a
specific objective of restoring GHG emissions to 1990 levels, as well as encouraging and
facilitating the transfer of climate-friendly technologies to developing countries (Annex II),
and finally (5) provide financial resources to assist developing countries in implementing
their commitments through the Global Environment Facility, which is the financial
mechanism of the Convention, through bilateral or other multilateral channels.
Believing in the importance of commitment to institutional frameworks towards mobilizing
international efforts to limit the exacerbation of weather phenomena, climate changes and
natural disasters, the State of Qatar has committed in its second Intended Nationally
Determined Contribution (INDC) report in August 2021 to reducing its GHG emissions by
25% in 2030.
It worth to note that Qatar submitted its first report of INDC on 19 November 2015. In
addition, as part of its commitment to international climate-related agreements and actions
as set out in the 1992 UNFCCC, it submitted a National Communications document (NC)
in 2011. Before that, in 2008, it made achieving environmentally sustainable development
as one of the pillars of its National Vision 2030.
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