Qatar Sustainability Week setzt Ambitionen in die Tat um
Katars Streben nach einer saubereren und grüneren Zukunft steht im Mittelpunkt der Nachhaltigkeitswoche, in der Gemeinden, Schulen und Unternehmen zusammenkommen, um innovative Projekte, Freiwilligeninitiativen und nationale Nachhaltigkeitsverpflichtungen vorzustellen.
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00:01Our main focus here is to inspire, empower, educate children, youth, and the public in general
00:07so we can do what we can to keep Qatar clean and beautiful for generations to come.
00:15Running from 1 to 8 November, Qatar Sustainability Week celebrated its 10th edition this year.
00:21What started as a small awareness campaign has grown into a national movement,
00:25bigger, louder, and more hands-on than ever.
00:31ERSNA, Center for a Sustainable Future, an initiative of Qatar Foundation.
00:35We are leading the efforts around Qatar Sustainability Week, but we only see ourselves as a platform.
00:41We are here to give a space for anyone from families, students, businesses, administrations
00:47to design and deliver their own activities to raise awareness around sustainability at large.
00:54Sustainability at large isn't just an idea.
00:58It's part of Qatar's transformation, with nearly 200 SDG indicators tracked nationwide.
01:05At Qatar Foundation's Oxygen Park, a family marathon brought those goals to life, turning numbers into action.
01:13We have more than 150 students participating from the center and running to support for the Sustainable Development Goals.
01:21And the marathon itself, it's contained a 17 station.
01:25Each station represents one of the SDGs, and our students are here in order to run and support the SDGs,
01:32to raise the awareness in the community about how we can be part of the sustainability.
01:38Along Qatar's coast, mangroves are doing the heavy lifting against climate change.
01:42As part of the world's largest mangrove relocation, Hamad Port has replanted over 36,000 trees, filtering salt, absorbing carbon, and anchoring shorelines,
01:53helping Qatar cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2030.
01:58We are at Earthner, at Qatar Foundation, in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030.
02:04We are implementing, with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, some parts of their strategy,
02:10mainly into the wildlife conservation and restoration.
02:13And one of these projects is the mangrove restoration project.
02:17So this project is meant to develop resilience in the coastal zone by planting 40 hectares of mangroves.
02:24From mangroves to beaches, families are rolling up their sleeves to tackle Qatar's waste.
02:30Deep Qatar Conservation has run 550-plus cleanup drives, collecting over 230 tons of trash,
02:38from single-use plastics to everyday litter, all responsibly disposed of through recycling or managed landfills.
02:44More than 300 people participated on the different educational activities that we hosted during the week.
02:50We held two different cleanup drives in the desert with nothing but our bare hands.
02:55In addition to that, I did some school visits where we talked about the global and local impact of plastic pollution,
03:01focusing on what we can do to help mitigate the problem.
03:04Trash isn't just on beaches or in deserts. It accumulates everywhere.
03:09Enter e-waste.
03:10Electronics are everywhere. Phones, tablets, keyboards, cables.
03:15When they stop working, they can pile up fast, creating a serious waste problem.
03:20Qatar Foundation is collecting these devices, breaking them down,
03:26and recycling the valuable materials inside.
03:31Electronic waste is the fastest growing waste streams in the world.
03:34It has a lot of toxins in them, such as cadmium, arsenic, and mercury.
03:40It causes a lot of problems for the environment.
03:43What we're trying to do is we're trying to divert as much as waste from the landfill,
03:46and we're trying to support Qatar's circular economy as well.
03:51Circular action is taking over Qatar.
03:53The country is targeting 2 to 4 gigawatts of solar capacity by 2030,
03:58and has already cut electricity and water consumption by around 20% in the last decade.
04:04This shift sets the business foundation for sustainability at large.
04:09We've got Qatar Foundation who have introduced the Clean Plate campaign
04:13within their restaurants and cafes in the whole of Education City,
04:17where they're asking people to just put whatever they know they're going to eat on their plate,
04:21because food waste is a huge issue and a huge challenge here in Qatar.
04:25We've seen, for example, in the hospitality sector,
04:28the hotels focusing on their sustainability initiatives,
04:31whether related to recycling, whether related to eliminating plastic within their operations.
04:38Qatar Sustainability Week has become a force for change,
04:42aligned with national targets and measurable metrics.
04:45Solar and other renewables are set to tripling Qatar's energy mix,
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