His Excellency Eng. Abdulrahman AlFadley, the upcoming President of UNCCD COP16 and Minister of Environment, Water, and Agriculture, met with the high-level advisory council members for COP16. The meeting was attended by H.E. Adel Al-Jubeir, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Member of the Council of Ministers and Envoy for Climate, and the council members include:
• Tarja Halonen, Former President of Finland
• Iván Duque, Former President of Colombia
• Macky Sall, Former President of Senegal
• Carlos Alvarado, Former President of Costa Rica
• Nasser Alkahtani, CEO of the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND)
• André Hoffmann, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Roche Holding
• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Environmental activist
They discussed preparations for COP16, which will be held in Riyadh next December, and mobilized international efforts to address land degradation and the drought impacts on the planet.
This meeting took place during His Excellency AlFadley's participation as part of the Kingdom's delegation to the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The delegation, led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, included several other ministers.