AMMAN —
Sustainable development policies and the impact of climate change on the
Kingdom’s existing environmental problems were the focus of a two-day workshop
organized by
Nottingham Trent University.
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Environmental activists,
officials from the Ministry of Environment, NGOs involved in climate issues, UN and several scientific and academic
personalities participated in the event, which concluded on Monday.
Marianna
Poberezhskaya, an associate professor in politics and international relations
at the Nottingham Trent University, said the workshop was an opportunity to
bring great minds together to discuss climate change.
“The main objective
is to bring different stakeholders and try to allow them the time and space to
talk about the important issues in terms of climate change mitigation and
adaptation in Jordan” she told
Jordan News.
Imad El-Anis,
another associate professor of International Relations at Nottingham, also said
that one of the main goals of the workshop is to “facilitate communication”
between different stakeholders, and “finding the gaps in coordination, as well
as how aware are they of the resources available to different parties”.
One of challenges
that face Jordan in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation is the
insufficient participation by the private sector, youth and the engagement of
various governorates to maximize the impact of climate action nationwide.
“There is a need to
enhance coordination among the different organizations,” said Bilal
Al-Shaqareen, the acting director of Climate Change at the
Ministry of Environment.
A suggestion made
during the discussion was to have a national climate change center to probe the
various changes and oversee coordination among all sides involved. Participants
argued that the significance of the topic of climate change requires more than
an office at the ministry, but a national center with adequate resources and
functions.
Engineer Hala
Al-Hamawi, accreditation and compliance Specialist at Global Green Growth
Institute, admitted that climate change constitutes a “constraint to
development”.
But she pointed out
that a “strong climate agreement will help us to achieve sustainable
development and economic growth by encouraging the country to transition to
more resource and energy efficient technologies.”
She explained the
transition will “improve people’s livelihood and enhance natural capital
resources.”
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