Ashraf AboArafe
Next Wednesday, the Kingdom will host the international workshop “Regional Capabilities in Monitoring and Predicting Climate Change”, which will be held over two days with the participation of 21 countries and 6 international organizations, in addition to the official and concerned authorities in the Kingdom, with the aim of introducing the capabilities of the Climate Change Center in the Kingdom, as well as discussing and proposing The latest international updates in the field of climate change and forecasting, at the Hilton Hotel in Jeddah.
Dr. Ayman bin Salem Ghulam, CEO of the National Center of Meteorology and General Supervisor of the Center for Climate Change, said that the international workshop will review a number of important topics on its agenda, including; Research and development of plans to monitor and understand the current climate and predict its future changes, and to identify research and monitoring gaps that contribute to helping develop research strategies and support climate research, technologies used and operations activities in the region, by bringing together scientists and researchers, including local and international climate change experts, to discuss and exchange ideas.
He pointed out that the Regional Center for Climate Change will contribute to supporting decision and policy makers with regard to climate change and ways to deal with it, in addition to research and development in the field of climate modeling and predictions on seasonal and climatic time scales, and reviewing the results of recent research on the region’s climate and its changes and strategic and future research directions on climate. Region, drawing attention to the efforts of the Regional Center for Climate Change to develop a framework for exchanging climate information and data at the level of the countries of the region, in addition to identifying gaps in data and designing strategies to improve monitoring of the regional climate.
It is noteworthy that the Regional Center for Climate Change was established as part of a package of initiatives announced by His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, in the middle of last year at the Middle East Green Summit. The center aims to collect and share climate science research to study the impact of weather. Afforestation resulting from Saudi Arabia’s green initiatives, studying renewable energy resources to measure their effects on carbon emissions in light of future climate changes, and assisting in developing climate information to provide plans for the Kingdom’s contribution at the national, regional and global levels.
