SCE to organise workshop on climate change, energy

Manama

The Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) and the office of the Energy Minister will organise a training workshop for media staff titled (Capacity building and raising awareness of media staff on climate change and energy) and the Road to Paris on climate change.

The workshop will be held in cooperation with the United Nations Development Programme and the French Embassy. The training workshop will be held on  September 6, 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manama. 

It aims to raise awareness of media staff in Bahrain about the development related to climate change and energy.

It also targets promoting national dialogue among stakeholders in the field of climate change and energy, including the relevant government agencies, private sector and civil society organisations.

International and local specialists will address the workshop in areas relating to energy and climate change. 

Minister of Energy Dr. Abdulhussain Mirza; Chief Executive Officer of the Supreme Council for the Environment Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Dina; UN Resident Coordinator in Bahrain Peter Grohmann, and the French Ambassador to Bahrain Bernard Regnauld-Fabre, will give speeches at the opening session. 

A short documentary film will be shown on the impacts and threats of climate change.

UNDP Deputy Resident Representative Ameen Al Sharqawi said that the workshop comes in the contest of the UNDP support for the implementation of Bahrain Government Action Plan 2015-2018 led by Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, chiefly in the area of promoting sustainable energy policies and adopting to climate change by inviting international experts.