Minister of Environment participates in a Symposium at COP 28 on “Integrating Women and Children in Combating Climate Change”
The Minister of the Environment, Mrs. Lalia Ali Kamara, participated as a guest of honour, in the symposium organized by (afriwocc) in the Ghana pavilion, as part of the activities of the 28th session of the Climate Conference of the Parties, which is being hosted by Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The topic of the symposium was “Integrating the voice of women and children in the fight against climate change,” where the Minister of the Environment highlighted the importance of environmental education in school programs and advocated for the effective inclusion of women and children in programs and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Minister also participated in the high-level forum organized by the International Alliance for a Sustainable Environment, during which Mr. Sow Mohamed, Assistant Director of the Directorate of Climate and Green Economy at the Ministry of Environment, made a presentation that included Mauritania’s commitment to using plant-based and transformed tools.
Within the framework of bilateral meetings, the Minister of the Environment, Ms. Lalia Ali Kamara, met today, Thursday, with the Executive Secretary of the Climate Committee for the Sahel, Mr. Issoufou Boremane, and discussed with him the governance of the committee’s financing and mobilization of resources by the end of March 2024, and the implementation of programs and projects that the committee is responsible for coordinating.
Mrs. Lalia Ali Kamara held a working meeting with Mauritanian youth active in climate and environmental issues.
The meeting was an opportunity for the Minister of Environment to encourage Mauritanian youth organizations, calling on them to intensify their activities to defend the country’s interests in international seminars and forums, especially the climate conference, and to contribute to climate defense at any occasion.
She renewed the Ministry’s team’s readiness to support their activities and integrate them into the activities of the Ministry of Environment.