Dr. Wajdan Al-Aqab, President of the Kuwait Environment Protection Society, confirmed that her meeting with Dr. Crystal Chages, Diplomatic Attaché for Cooperation at the French Embassy, resulted in a discussion of several frameworks for future environmental cooperation between the Society and the Embassy.
Dr. Al-Aqab explained that she discussed with Dr. Crystal Chaggis the reactivation of in-person mutual activities after their interruption during the Corona pandemic, announcing that the environmental activities between the society and the French embassy are of particular importance as they are numerous and diverse.
Dr. Al-Aqab stated that the meeting included a discussion of the French Embassy’s arrangement of a “training, educational, cultural, environmental, and recreational” program in the French capital, Paris, for students from Kuwait and members of the Friends of the Environment team at the society.
She added that Dr. Crystal Chages suggested that the French Embassy cooperate with the society in organizing an environmental forum at the embassy headquarters next October, with the invitation of some environmental figures with specialized expertise who participated in the Paris Climate Summit, in order to benefit from those experiences and the outcomes resulting from their participation, which can be used to participate in the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit in November. She explained, “The meeting also resulted in an understanding regarding the proposal for joint cooperation between environmental civil societies in Kuwait and the French Republic for the exchange of knowledge in the environmental field.”.
