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| · Work with the business community in the Arab world to develop corporate Environmental Responsibility Programs, adopt sustainable practices and move towards cleaner production technologies. · Cooperating with the media and the advertising sectors to promote environmental awareness. · Working with educational institutions on scientific research. · Supporting networking of NGOs active in the domain of environment and development and coordinating joint programs. |
Council of Arab Ministers Responsible for the Environment (CAMRE) | NGO | · 2004/2005 Arab Environmental action program. · Desertification Combat to increase the arable lands and to enhance the nomadic environment. · Specify guidelines to regulate trading in genetically engineered products and living organisms in the Arab region. · Seminar on water resource integrated management. · Awareness-raising seminar on means of facing the depletion of natural resources and wildlife. · Promote the concept of cleaner production and to establish national centres for cleaner production. · complete establishing a descriptive (qualitative) and statistical database. |
Joint Committee on Environment and Development in the Arab Region (JCEDAR) | NGO | · Follow up on all the actions and meetings of the UN International Convention for Combating Desertification and the International Convention on Biodiversity. · Establish an Arab bank for genetic plant species in the Arab region. · Test the indicators of desertification in a selected number of countries. · Specify guidelines to regulate trading in genetically engineered products and living organisms in the Arab region. · Hold seminars on the complementary activities that integrate the three international environmental agreements (desertification combat, biodiversity and climatic changes). · Organize a training course on means of preparing projects for the rehabilitation of the degraded land to be presented to the donation organizations. · Hold a practical seminar on case studies of rehabilitation of degraded lands. · Call for a meeting of national contact (liaison) offices of the International Convention on Biodiversity to address the actual implementation of strategies and action plans for the aquatic biodiversity in the Arab region. · Organize an awareness-raising seminar on means of facing the depletion of natural resources and wildlife, accompanied by reviewing case studies of some countries e.g. Somalia. · Hold a seminar on water resource integrated management ( |
Center of Environment and Development for Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE) | NGO | · Provide accredited training, rehabilitation and education programmes. |
Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) | NGO | · GCC Unified Customs Law and Single Customs Tariff” (UCL)-five per cent on almost all imported foods and a single-entry point policy, a unified guide for controls on imported food ( |