The Acting Director General of the Environment Public Authority, Dr. Samira Al-Kandari, announced that the State of Kuwait will join the Crimea Alliance for Climate Initiative launched by the UAE in partnership with Indonesia at the twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, in 2022.
In a statement to Kuwait News Agency today, Al-Kandari affirmed Kuwait’s commitment to this initiative, which aims to accelerate and expand efforts to preserve and rehabilitate mangrove ecosystems and highlight their importance in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
She added that this initiative comes as one of the nature-based solutions to meet the challenge of climate change and efforts to absorb and isolate greenhouse gas emissions globally.
She explained that the authority, as the national point of contact with the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is working to implement Kuwait’s commitments in this regard, and has submitted a document of contributions at the national level in 2021, including a number of projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 by 4.7 percent of the total carbon dioxide emissions. total national emissions.
She pointed out that the authority has planted mangroves in cooperation with the Sultanate of Oman in different parts of the country as part of the coastal environment rehabilitation project.
She stated that since 2018, about 1,000 seeds were cultivated annually in the authority’s laboratories and transferred seedlings to their natural environment, and until 2021, about 4,000 seedlings were cultivated in Al-Jahra Campus, Boubyan Island, Al-Subiya area, and (Bar Ghadi – the northern coast of Kuwait Bay), with a detention rate of 50,000. tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per year.
Al-Kandari added that until 2035, approximately 18,000 seedlings will be cultivated, with a retention rate of 221 thousand tons, indicating that the Environment Agency is studying some other Kuwaiti regions and islands to see their suitability for cultivating the mangrove plant.
