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MUSCAT Sultan Qaboos University hosted the second workshop on "Initial National Communication to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Oman" recently.

The event was organised jointly by Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs and United Nations Environment Programme.
Eng. Ibrahim Al Ajmi, Director General, Climate Affairs at the Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs, said climate change was a complex problem that affected all spheres of existence on earth.
"It either impacts on, or is impacted by, global issues, including poverty, economic development, population growth, sustainable development and resource management. It is not surprising, then, that solutions come from all disciplines and fields of research and development", Al Ajmi said.
Professor Adel Gastli, Director of Quality Assurance Office at SQU and Coordinator of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Research Group at SQU, said that the workshop reviewed the overall progress towards formulating the national communication for Oman to UNFCCC, since the inception workshop held earlier this year. The second workshop assessed quality and completeness of data and information collected so far.
UNFCCC is an international treaty which envisages member states to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increase and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were inevitable.