'Green Leader Initiative' launched to spread culture of environmental sustainability among students
RIYADH — Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Eng. Abdulrahman Al-Fadley launched the "Green Leader Initiative" in Riyadh on Sunday. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member, and UN Climate Envoy Adel Al-Jubeir attended the launching ceremony. The initiative, under the slogan "Their path is green" is organized by the Environment Fund as part of the "Environment Week 2025" activities.
Through this initiative, the Environment Fund seeks to strengthen community partnerships with various sectors to protect the environment and direct efforts toward achieving the goals of the Kingdom's Vision 2030 in the field of environmental sustainability.
The initiative aims to spread the culture of environmental sustainability among students of all ages through interactive and innovative educational programs that span schools across the Kingdom. These programs focus on enhancing environmental awareness, encouraging action to address environmental challenges, promoting innovation for climate change, and stimulating a green transformation in society.
The launch of this initiative comes within the framework of "Environment Week," an annual national environmental event aimed at spreading environmental awareness in the community, achieving environmental sustainability, preserving natural resources, and reducing all forms of pollution.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Saudi Gazette
7 hours ago
- Saudi Gazette
Saudi Crown Prince, Jordanian King emphasize ending Gaza war
Saudi Gazette report NEOM — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman held wide ranging talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan at NEOM Palace on Monday. The two leaders discussed bilateral relations and regional issues of mutual interest. Major developments in the region, most notably the ongoing escalation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, figured high in their meetings. Both sides emphasized the importance of ending the war, protecting civilians, and supporting efforts to reach a political solution that restores stability. The meeting underscored the depth of relations between Saudi Arabia and Jordan and the two leaderships' keenness to strengthen bilateral cooperation in various fields, serving the interests of the two countries and their peoples, as well as supporting Arab and Islamic issues. The meeting was also attended by Emir of Tabuk Prince Fahd bin Sultan; Minister of Sports Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal; Minister of Interior Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Naif; Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman; Minister of State, Cabinet Member and National Security Advisor Dr. Musaed Al-Aiban; Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Eng. Ahmed Al-Rajhi; Public Investment Fund Governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan; Head of General Intelligence Khalid Al-Humaidan, and the Chargé d'Affaires at the Saudi Embassy in Jordan Mohammed Munis. On the Jordanian side, the meeting was attended by Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II; Prime Minister Dr. Jaafar Hassan; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi; Director of the King's Office Eng. Alaa Batayneh; and Director of the Crown Prince's Office Dr. Zaid Al-Baqain.
Arab News
10 hours ago
- Arab News
Four days left to square the circle on global plastic pollution treaty
GENEVA: Countries remained at loggerheads Monday over how to tackle plastic pollution, with only four days left to craft a landmark global treaty on reining in the ever-growing scourge. While plastic has transformed modern life, plastic pollution poses an increasing threat to the environment and the human body — and every day the garbage accumulates on land and in the oceans. The 184 countries meeting at the United Nations to sculpt a first international accord setting out the way forward return to the negotiating table after a day off Sunday to reflect on their differences. The first week of talks in Geneva fell behind schedule and failed to produce a clear text, with states still deeply divided at square one: the purpose and scope of the treaty they started negotiating two and a half years ago. Last week, working groups met on technical topics ranging from the design of plastic to waste management, production, financing for recycling, plastic reuse, and funding waste collection in developing countries. They also discussed molecules and chemical additives that pose environmental and health risks. A nebulous cluster of mostly oil-producing states calling themselves the Like-Minded Group want the treaty to focus primarily on waste management. The United States and India are also close to this club. At the other end of the spectrum, a growing faction calling themselves the 'ambitious' group want radical action written into the treaty, including measures to curb the damage caused by plastic garbage, such as phasing out the most dangerous chemicals. Plastic pollution is so ubiquitous that microplastics have been found on the highest mountain peaks, in the deepest ocean trench and scattered throughout almost every part of the human body. The ambitious group wants a clause reining in plastic production, which is set to triple by 2060. The club brings together the European Union, many African and Latin American countries, Australia, Britain, Switzerland and Canada. It also includes island micro-nations drowning in plastic trash they did little to produce and have little capacity to deal with. Palau, speaking for 39 small island developing states (SIDS), said the treaty had to deal with removing the plastic garbage 'already choking our oceans.' 'SIDS will not stand by while our future is bartered away in a stalemate,' and 'this brinkmanship has a real price: a dying ocean,' the Micronesian archipelago said. The treaty is set to be settled by universal consensus; but with countries far apart, the lowest-ambition countries are quite comfortable not budging, observers said. 'We risk having a meaningless treaty without any binding global rules like bans and phase-outs. This is unacceptable,' Eirik Lindebjerg, global plastics adviser for the World Wide Fund for Nature, told AFP. 'Expecting any meaningful outcome to this process through consensus is a delusion. With the time remaining, the ambitious governments must come together as a majority to finalize the treaty text and prepare to agree it through a vote.' Without touching on whether ambitious countries would ultimately abandon consensus and go for a vote, the EU's environment commissioner Jessika Roswall, due in Geneva on Monday, urged countries to speed up negotiations and not 'miss this historic opportunity.' The draft treaty has ballooned from 22 to 35 pages — with the number of brackets in the text going up near five-fold to almost 1,500 as countries insert a blizzard of conflicting wishes and ideas. 'With four more days to go, we have more square brackets in the text than plastic in the sea. It's time to get results,' Roswall said. In total, 70 ministers and around 30 senior government officials are expected in Geneva from Tuesday onwards and could perhaps help break the deadlock.
Saudi Gazette
a day ago
- Saudi Gazette
Saudi Arabia hails Lebanese efforts to extend state's sovereignty over its entire territories
Saudi Gazette report BEIRUT — Saudi Arabia hailed the efforts of the Lebanese Army to extend the government's sovereignty over all of the country's territories, as well as to ensure its security and stability, thus contributing to the prosperity of Lebanon and its people. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday, Saudi Arabia expressed its sincere condolences to Lebanon over the death and injury of a number of army personnel while performing their duties in southern Lebanon. Saudi Arabia also offered its condolences to the families of the victims while pledging its solidarity with the Lebanese government and people. Last Tuesday, the Lebanese government tasked the army with developing a plan to restrict the possession of weapons to the state by the end of the year. Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajai asserted that this decision was "decisive and final." In a statement on his X social media account on Wednesday, the minister stated that the decision "came first and foremost to meet the aspirations of the Lebanese people. We say clearly to them and to the Arab and international communities that this decision is definitive and final, and there is no turning back."
