Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Participates in COP 17 Sessions

The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development participated in several specialized panel discussions during the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP 17) in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, as part of its support for international cooperation efforts to combat desertification, land degradation, and challenges associated with sand and dust storms.

Thamer Al-Filakawi, Director of the Operations Department at the Kuwait Fund, took part in a high-level session titled “Sandstorms as Transboundary Risks: Addressing Sand and Dust Storms through the Water-Land Nexus,” organized by the International Water Management Institute. Al-Filakawi presented the Fund’s perspective on mechanisms for financing regional efforts and ways to mobilize the investments needed to translate environmental priorities and solutions into scalable, implementable projects.

The Kuwait Fund also participated in a session titled “Building Regional Resilience to Sand and Dust Storms: Strengthening Partnerships, Knowledge, and Investment.” Dr. Mohammad Sadeghi represented the Fund in this session, discussing the role of development finance in supporting environmental resilience projects and the importance of strengthening partnerships to finance initiatives that integrate land reclamation, water resource management, and climate change adaptation.

Additionally, the Fund took part in a session titled “From Source to Solution: Regional Action to Address Sand and Dust Storms through Water, Land Reclamation, and Transboundary Cooperation.”