This year we celebrate the World Day for Safety following the major achievements of the State of Qatar in supporting and protecting the environment from pollution risks in the frame of preserving the safety of its elements and sources which are considered as the basis for the continuity of a safe human life.
We are aware that the environment preservation is no longer a welfare or luxury but rather a major and highly important matter for both human beings and nature which must be protected against all dangers.
The matter of protecting the environment and its safety is a major concern of the Ministry of Environment following the directives of H.H. the Emir, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani on the importance of balancing between sustainable development and the environment in order to preserve the future generations’ rights to live in a healthy and safe environment.
The matter of protecting the environment and its safety is a major concern of the Ministry of Environment following the directives of H.H. the Emir, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani on the importance of balancing between sustainable development and the environment in order to preserve the future generations’ rights to live in a healthy and safe environment.
By observing such directives, the State of Qatar was able to provide a unique model for preserving and protecting the environment. In this regard, Qatar has enhanced its commitment to preserve its environmental legacy following the implementation of an experiment which confirmed the success of development based on strong pillars and reflecting excellence and modernity.
This care given to the environmental matters was reflected in issued environmental regulations, laws and plans including several environmental projects and programs aiming to protect and maintain natural resources and combatting all types of pollution in addition to protecting the community’s health and safety for the purpose of maintaining the integrity and renewal of natural resources for the future generations.
In the frame of protecting the safety of its environment, Qatar has enacted several environment-related laws such as laws on the regulation of hunting and the agricultural and veterinarian quarantine, the management of water resources and others, as well as the environment protection law which include several legislations to protect and preserve the environment. The light was shed on training and qualifying the personnel working in the environmental field and placing strategies and plans for maintaining and exploiting natural resources on sustainable basis.
The Ministry of Environment deploys its efforts to provide a healthy environment with guaranteed security and safety which is considered as a major element for the success and achievement of the desired objectives for all the community’s institution; thus achieving high level of prosperity, well-being and quality of life for the citizens of the State of Qatar in conformity with Qatar Vision 2030.
In this regard, we must mention the works fulfilled by the Ministry in preparing a strategic plan according to the National Development Strategy in terms of content and strategic planning based on concept related results focusing on achieving results instead of operations in conformity with the work nature and government performance.
This plan emphasizes the role played by the Ministry in participating actively to achieve the environmental pillar considered as a major pillar in Qatar Vision.
The plan also represents the sectors strategy, in particular the environment sector in the National Development Strategy.
Our mission in the Ministry is to protect and develop the Qatari environment through the integrity of policies and regulations that achieve perfection in performance, capacity building, awareness promotion and community cooperation to realize the environmental sustainability.
It is known that the Ministry of Environment is the governmental authority concerned with developing the environmental, agricultural, fishery and livestock sector in the State of Qatar; developing and sustaining living and non-living natural resources; guarantying environmental quality and integrity; improving and further guarantying the quality of goods and materials in terms of preparation, adoption and publication of Qatari standard specifications for goods, products as well as issuing and adopting standard specifications conformance certificates and quality marks.
The Ministry of Environment is well aware of the accelerated developments in the environment field; therefore the Ministry is keen on working toward increasing the awareness of the regarding the environment integrity importance among citizens and residents through shedding the light on the environmental work in general in terms of policies and plans pertaining to projects; highlighting the sustainable development in all public and private objectives following in public and private institutions. The Ministry further seeks to urge the community on complying with instructions and guidelines for maintaining and preserving our Qatari environment considering that the environment protection and preservation is our national responsibility.
The achievements in preserving and maintaining the integrity of the environment do not meet our ambitions. We promise to deploy more efforts and work toward realizing further achievements in the future to achieve a sustainable development as pursued by the State. We are confident with regard to the achieved works and look forward to the future.