Qatar, GGGI partner for green growth and sustainable development – The Peninsula

Qatar, GGGI partner for green growth and sustainable development – The Peninsula

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) will support Qatar to reach its goal of lowering greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.

Speaking to The Peninsula in an interview, Director-General of GGGI, Dr. Frank Rijsberman, said that the Seoul-headquartered institute aims to help Qatar become a circular economy that will enable the country to achieve the objectives of green growth and sustainable development.

The GGGI is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies.

According to the Director-General, the Middle East region is more vulnerable to the climate change than other regions and one of the ways to address this challenge is to become a circular economy. A circular economy means that all the waste in the country is recycled or reused.

“If it becomes two degrees hotter on average in the world, it could become four degrees hotter here. So this is actually an area that is very vulnerable to climate change, and there are many things we could do together. We have agreed to start to work on what we call a circular economy. It means trying not to have a lot of waste in society, whether