Saudi Green Initiative Gets Boost as Vegetation Center Teams Up with Riyadh Chamber
|Memorandum of Cooperation aims to spread afforestation culture and activate private sector involvement
Riyadh - The National Center for Vegetation Development and Combating Desertification has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Riyadh Chamber, aiming to spread the culture of afforestation and activate the role of the private sector in achieving tangible impact within the Saudi Green Initiative.
The memorandum focuses on enhancing mutual training, research, awareness, and volunteer cooperation between both parties. It establishes a practical framework for collaboration in areas such as research, studies, training, awareness campaigns, and volunteering. The goal is to facilitate implementation while exchanging experiences related to their respective activities. Additionally, conferences, seminars, lectures will be organized to involve the private sector in afforestation initiatives.
Through this partnership agreement, both parties aim to identify investment opportunities while addressing challenges periodically. They also plan on participating in community programs and engaging in media and promotional cooperation. Reports publications events campaigns will be implemented as well as proposing ideas that contribute towards achieving their shared objectives.
The collaboration between the National Center for Vegetation Development and Combating Desertification and the Riyadh Chamber will focus on exchanging experiences through conferences seminars lectures that promote afforestation culture within the private sector. This will be achieved through volunteering efforts training programs research initiatives mutual awareness campaigns studying systems projects referred by the Chamber along with providing developmental feedback.
It is worth noting that the center's primary mission involves protecting vegetation sites across Saudi Arabia by rehabilitating deteriorated areas detecting encroachments combating logging supervising pasture lands forests national parks investing in them—all aimed at enhancing sustainable environmental development while achieving prosperous vegetation cover aligned with goals set forth by Saudi Green Initiative.