Saudi Arabia Launches Riyadh Action Agenda Community Platform at COP17
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RIYADH, August 19 (Saudi Arabia Breaking News) — Saudi Arabia launched the Riyadh Action Agenda Community Platform at COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, creating a coordination network for around 200 international initiatives concerned with land restoration and drought resilience.
The platform is intended to give the Riyadh Action Agenda’s expanding group of partners a shared framework for setting objectives, building effective partnerships and moving initiatives into practical implementation.
More than 50 representatives from governments, international organizations, research institutions and civil society organizations attended the launch at the Saudi pavilion during the 17th Conference of the Parties.
Participants included Mongolia’s Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change Munkhtamir Batbayar and Saudi Deputy Minister for Environment at the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture Dr. Osama Faqeeha.
Faqeeha said the community platform builds on the international engagement created by the Riyadh Action Agenda since Saudi Arabia introduced it during its COP16 presidency in Riyadh in December 2024. Its work will concentrate on converting the agenda’s objectives into coordinated action supporting land restoration and stronger resilience to drought.
The Riyadh Action Agenda seeks to mobilize government and private-sector support for initiatives offering lasting responses to land degradation, desertification and drought.
Source: SPA
