The Department of Environment and Meteorology is concerned with bolstering Arab cooperation in the fields of the environment, meteorology and climate change and developing a comprehensive system for environmental protection. The department is concerned with formulating rules and strategies for protecting the environment and raising Arab public awareness about environmental issues to achieve environmental and developmental integration. The department is also meant to assist in collecting, analysing, and exchanging information and preparing a guide of available Arab expertise in the field of the department.
The department focuses on enhancing cooperation with international and regional organisations and coordinating Arab positions in international forums on issues of its specialisation, and preparing the sessions of the two concerned ministerial councils and implementing the assignments of Arab summits and Arab councils of concern to the department.
