GORD and Baladna join global climate action at COP27 – The Peninsula

GORD and Baladna join global climate action at COP27 – The Peninsula

Baladna Food Industries, a leading and largest dairy producer in Qatar, has joined forces with the Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD) to explore synergies aimed at enhancing Qatar’s food securing through sustainable innovations. To this end, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed on November 9, 2022 at the UNFCCC (COP 27) taking place until 18 November 2022 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Areas of collaboration covered in the recent MoU include works on RDI activities to support sustainable solutions aimed at ensuring food security; capacity building through trainings and educational programs, and decarbonization initiatives aimed at achieving carbon mitigation.

Signing the agreement was GORD’s Founding Chairman, Dr. Yousef Alhorr and Wafaa Al Saffar, Sustainability Director at Baladna. Speaking at the MoU signing ceremony, Dr. Yousef Alhorr said, “As Qatar continues to make major strides towards self-reliance in food security, adopting sustainable farming and ecofriendly agriculture solutions is imperative for the nation’s sustainable development. Baldana has remained a key player in strengthening Qatar’s food security, all the while initiating a range of climate conscious projects. Our MoU with Baladna aims at pursuing more research to reduce carbon footprint by developing sustainable cooling technologies in agriculture in places like Qatar