Qatar Environment Day: Continuous achievements, long-term strategy – The Peninsula Qatar

Qatar Environment Day: Continuous achievements, long-term strategy – The Peninsula Qatar

The State of Qatar celebrates Qatar Environment Day on February 26 under the slogan “Our environment is a trust” to emphasize the importance of concerted community, official and civil efforts to preserve Qatar’s environment, maintain all its elements, and make it safe, sound and healthy for current and future generations.

The State of Qatar has been celebrating this national environmental occasion since 1996, under a specific slogan that serves a specific environmental issue, to remind and draw attention to the fact that protecting the homeland’s environment is everyone’s responsibility, especially since the issue of the environment has become a global issue in all its dimensions without exception, receiving international attention through holding summits, conferences and meetings to find effective and innovative solutions to all its challenges.

Not only celebrating this annual celebration, the State of Qatar launched many initiatives including planting one million trees, which was launched in 2019 with a QR 1 billion budget to support international efforts in confronting climate change and promoting environmental sustainability.

Also, Qatar pledged to hold a carbon-neutral FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and observe international standards in the field of environmental conservation by adopting a level of sustainability for stadiums according to different categories, including design,