ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 19 Sport | 28 Qatar Charity High Tech Port Stakes high at rebuilds Syrian event begins Doha Worlds; village battered tomorrow grand opening in war. at QNCC. ceremony today. MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 2015 • 21 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6574 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Father Emir, Sheikha Moza at Qatar Prix Govt includes SMEs in Qatar makes procurement process DOHA: Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are to be made part of the government procurement process as part of the state’s plans headway in to bolster entrepreneurship and the SMEs. State-owned Qatar Development Bank (QDB) is currently working with the Ministry of Finance to integrate the SMEs into the state procurement network. Government procurement refers to the act emission cuts of obtaining goods and services for a public agency. In other words, it is all about government-related purchasing activity. 196 countries to meet in Paris QDB Executive Chairman Abdulaziz Al Khalifa said that his bank and the Ministry of Finance have BY SATISH KANADY gas from Al Shaheen Field and taken crucial steps to ensure the inclusion of Qatari subsequent registration of this SMEs in the state procurement process. DOHA: As governments of project under the Clean develop- “This will create suitable environment for the 196 countries are getting ready ment Mechanism. development of the SMEs,” Al Khalifa told Al to meet at Paris UN Climate The development of the Al Sharq. He said QDB has successfully managed to Change Conference next month Karakara oil field is the latest make the local SMEs part of procurement proc- to forge a global agreement field to be developed in Qatar and ess for Qatar Rail Company and Qatar Tourism on setting long term goal on the first to have zero gas flar- Authority (QTA). greenhouse gas (GHG) emis- ing. Qatar’s $15m contribution to “Backed by the success of our effort and experience sion, Qatar will be attending the the energy research and climate Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser we are now working with the finance ministry to the summit with huge credentials change fund announced at OPEC attended the closing events of the 94th edition of the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at make the SMEs part of the overall state purchasing to demonstrate its commitment summit held in Riyadh is another Longchamp Racecourse in Paris yesterday. Many sheikhs, ministers, VIP guests and public system,” the QDB boss said. THE PENINSULA in the emission mitigation. gesture of the country’s commit- figures were also present. See also page 27 Qatar, the 2012 host country of ment in battling the emission rate. UN Climate Change, has launched The State of Qatar , in its initial a series of emission mitigation National Communication to the projects over the past few years. UN Framework Convention on The latest in the series is Qatargas- Climate Change, noted that Qatar supported gas recovery facility. is already working on a $70m Fee hike only for schools facing losses The Qatargas project is expected 10-year joint research project to recover more than 600,000 with Shell, Qatar Petroleum, BY MOHAMMED IQBAL no increase in fees, because any Once a fee hike is approved by A survey will also be con- tonnes of liquefied natural gas per Qatar Science and Technology and MOHAMMED OSMAN loss may threaten its survival,” the SEC, it will not be reduced ducted among students, parents, year. Billed as the world’s biggest Park and Imperial College London Hamad Mohammed Al Ghali, or cancelled. No school will be and teachers to assess their sat- environment protection invest- focusing in carbon capture and DOHA: Only those private Director of the Private Schools allowed to impose different types isfaction level about the school ment, the $1bn project is capable storage technologies. schools facing financial losses Office, said in an interview with of fees for different type of cur- environment and academic of reducing greenhouse gas emis- Qatar’s $210m investment into will be allowed to increase the The Peninsula. ricula, without an approval from performance. sions by 1.6million tonnes annually. the UK venture capital fund for fees, head of the Private Schools This year, more than 50 per- the SEC. Al Ghali said there are some Demonstrating Qatar’s commit- clean energy is another major ini- Office at the Supreme Education cent of the applications from pri- There are 18 standards that private and international schools ment to implement the mitigation tiative in its battle against climate Council (SEC) said yesterday. vate schools seeking fee hike was are considered before approving that impose fee hike before it is actions for the purpose of reducing change. All schools seeking a fee hike rejected. Schools incurring losses a fee hike request. The school approved by the SEC. the global GHG emission, Qatar Other initiatives that demon- are required to submit a com- have been allowed to increase should submit a financial report “This is a major issue we are has launched a series of national strates Qatar’s commitment in plete financial report, along with their fees, by two to 10 percent. showing operational costs, total facing about private schools. and international initiatives to mitigating the greenhouse gas other documents. The approval “Only four schools have been income, net profit and how many When we get such information, reduce greenhouse gas emissions. emission include the funding of will be granted based on a thor- given approval to hike the fees by time the school increased the fee immediately we ask the school Qatar has put in place a research into clean technologies ough evaluation of the financial 10 percent because they will be in the previous three years. to correct the mistake. Such vio- number of voluntary initiatives to being undertaken at the Qatar status and academic performance forced to close down if the request The existing fee of the school lation can lead to closure of the address climate change and sus- Science and Technology Park of the school. is not approved” said Al Ghali. will be compared with the cur- school but until now we have not tainable development objectives. and the investigation of energy “Private schools are profit- “If the school has a loss of 30 riculum, the level of the school, closed down any private school They include QP’s Corporate and water use efficiency measures oriented institutions and every percent, we will not allow it to quality of education and student because of a violation. The rea- objective of achieving zero gas as part of a comprehensive study school should get a profit against increase the fees by 30 percent achievement. The special commit- son is that when we ask them to flaring, Qatar’s membership of conducted by UN Economic and the services they are providing. at one go. Instead they would be tee studying fee hike requests will rectify the error, they do it in one the World Bank Greenhouse gas Social Commission for West Asia. Fees in different schools are dif- granted permission to hike the also check whether the school has week or two,” said Al Ghali. reduction programme, the recov- Continued on page 6 ferent as well as their profits. If fees by 10 percent every year, over acquired local or international Continued on page 4 ery and utilisation of associated THE PENINSULA the school didn’t face a loss then three years,” he added. accreditation. THE PENINSULA Clock-making Texas teen visits QF Nuclear deal Iraq opens Green Zone to traffic flawed, says BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime opening it now,” Abadi was quoted prime minister, to parliament, Minister Haider Al Abadi as saying in the statement. the country’s top courts and the yesterday announced that The measure offers limited US embassy, which is the world’s Iran panel Baghdad’s “Green Zone” was access to the vast area, with most largest. open to the public for the first streets still requiring a special The area’s foreign residents TEHRAN: A panel of Iranian time in 12 years, albeit with badge, but it is likely to be popu- still sometimes refer to what lies lawmakers said yesterday that many remaining restrictions. lar nonetheless and ease traffic beyond the miles of concrete walls the inspections regime underpin- The roughly 10-square-kilome- congestion. and concertina wire as the “Red ning the country’s nuclear deal tre heavily fortified area in the The International Zone of Zone”. with world powers represented heart of Baghdad is home to the Baghdad was already the seat of The term Green Zone has for a security threat, but the agree- country’s top political institutions government power under former many Iraqis become synonymous ment should go ahead anyway. and embassies. president Saddam Hussein and with the disconnect between the The 15-member committee “The prime minister opened became known as the Green Zone country’s rulers and the harsh spent weeks reviewing the text of the Green Zone to public pas- after the 2003 US-led invasion. realities of ordinary citizens. the July 14 agreement, known as sage and people in their vehicles The area, nestled in a bend of the Abadi presented the partial the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Ahmed Mohamed (third left), the clock-making teenager from Texas, came in droves,” a statement from Tigris River, was then sealed off to reopening of the area as part of Action (JCPOA), for what it said seen during a visit to the Qatar Foundation.