Qatar Museums (QM) has implemented a sustainability initiative to avoid single use plastic water bottles at all QM facilities, including Museum of Islamic Arts, National Museum of Qatar, Fire Station, Sports Museum, QM Tower 1 & 2, etc.

QM has distributed free reusable water bottles to each QM employees and also provided with water dispenser machines at all appropriate places inside each QM facilities. This initiative has avoided the use of at least 250,000 water bottles per year.

During QSW, we have created a special category for our customers in our tMart store on the talabat app called “Eco-Friendly Packaging”. Our objective is to start reducing packaging emissions, which is one of our biggest contributors to our carbon footprint. We will be creating awareness to this category by sending our customers a flyer made from recyclable material along with a free eco-friendly trash bag for them to trial.

A FIDE Rated Chess Tournament open for all ages. Chess enthusiasts in Qatar have been given the accessibility to get FIDE Rated or World Rated and to update their rankings. In collaboration with Qatar Chess Association (QCA), the game of chess has been encouraged in the community as it helps and shapes the strategic thinking of the player especially the youth.  This is a 2 weekend Tournament from October 13th - October 22nd.

خصم 5٪ للمتسوقين بدون أخذ المشتريات بكيس ورقي 

Discount of 5% for the customers who take their purchases without a paper bags 

Sustainable Development Goals in Exploring Youth Entrepreneurship

Youth entrepreneurship as a mechanism to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We will be discussing in the context of Youth and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The session will be broadcasted in our website www.premier.com.qa

Raise awareness in media of talabat’s recent global partnership with the UN Global Compact, which highlights our commitment and engagement in implementing UN SDGs in Qatar. talabat currently contributes to over 5 UN SDGs and is committed in 2022/3 to focusing on driving even further the following 4 UN SDGs: UN SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), UN SDG 3 (Good Health & Wellbeing) and UN SDG 4 (Quality Education) and UN SDG 13 (Climate Change). We want to encourage other companies in Qatar to collaborate with us to contribute further to the UN SDGs.

Raise awareness in media of talabat's efforts towards completing the calculation of their corporate carbon footprint in 2021 and 2022 (in progress) to start measuring and actioning reduction opportunities. talabat wants to encourage all companies in Qatar to join them in this yearly effort in measuring their carbon footprint so we can collectively find key partnerships and opportunities to further reduce the country's carbon footprint.

For Qatar Sustainability Week, we are pleased to be offering a special Culture Pass for a visit to Heenat Salma. From October 8th to the 13th, we‘ve curated an afternoon full of exciting and educational activities for the whole family. 

We at the Embassy are encouraging this initiative , we would like to be more conscious when we need to print. We always have to remember that wasting paper, ink and toner doesn't make economic or environmental sense. We hope that by limiting the number of printed documents we might start a small movement of change.

Earthna's team of interns from Georgetown University in Qatar is running a panel with the Amaken establishing chapter for Doha during QSW 2022. These sessions intend to promote cross-sector collaboration between universities, public and private sectors to capture various sector operational challenges, raise awareness, and explore pathways and means of creating sustainable cities. This is most relevant in hot, arid climates, specifically Qatar, by using data as the basis for the decisions being made.