· 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 ( JCEDAR, 2003 ).

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 ( Alomirah et al., 2010 ).