Dubai, UAE–The Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD) will partner with the UAE’s Ministry of Climate Change and Environment (MOCCAE) to realise the country’s vision of reaching zero neutrality by 2050, according to a senior official of the Damascus-based centre.
“As an Arab organisation mandated with supporting trends of Arab countries in reaching climate neutrality, ACSAD is working and cooperating with the Ministry of Climate Change and Environment to realise the UAE’s vision of reaching zero neutrality by 2050,” Dr. Ayham Homsi, Director of the Department of Economics and Planning at ACSAD, told the Emirates News Agency (WAM) during his participation in COP28 in Dubai.
Dr. Homsi said that ACSAD presented, during its participation in COP28, many climate solutions with the results of field applications for all Arab environments and environmental resources and dealing with water scarcity, stressing that ACSAD’s mission is to achieve Arab food security.
He added that ACSAD was assigned by Arab summits to implement a number of projects, the most prominent of which is the production of wheat varieties resistant to drought, high temperatures and diseases, conservation agriculture, and the development f livestock, in addition to updating the Arab countries’ strategy for Arab water security.
During the past year, he said that ACSAD approved 87 varieties of wheat and barley in Arab countries, in addition to implementing many projects in the field of development of Arab pastures, developing drought-tolerant fruit trees, propagating palm seedlings using the tissue method, and improving their productivity and their resistance to pests and the land.