Sheikh Mohammed visits Global Environmental Youth Convention

The event will conclude Wednesday.

Sheikh Mohammed came to the convention venue at Etisalat Academy with Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council.

Dr. Hanif Hassan, UAE Minister of Education, Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Acting Director General of Dubai Municipality and other senior officials of the Municipality, in addition to senior managers of Etisalat were present at the venue to receive Sheikh Mohammed.

The five-day convention, a global gathering of more than 600 students in the age group of 15-18, and their teachers and mentors from over 40 countries of the world, had commenced on Saturday.

Over 120 projects were presented in the GEYC Dubai 2006, which is being organized by Dubai Municipality in co-operation with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden and the Euro-Arab Cooperation Centre with the theme, Peace and Sustainable Development. More than 1,700 students had registered for the online course Young Masters Programme (YMP) on preventive environmental strategies in the "Road to GEYC Dubai 2006."

After witnessing a presentation by a team comprising of UAE girl students on the Young Masters Programme, Sheikh Mohammed mingled freely with the participating students, posed for photographs and received mementoes from them. Some even read out poems about him.

The fourth plenary session of the convention on Peace and Sustainable Development, chaired by Eng. Raed Mohammed Al Marzouqi of Dubai Municipality, was addressed by Professor Norman Myers of the Oxford University.

The second keynote address of the day was presented by Pamela Paquin of the Society for Organizational Learning. She gave a definition on peace and the necessity for patience.

Eng. Rashed Karkain of Dubai Municipality's Environment Department gave another keynote presentation on the tasks and legalities of the Environmental Planning Unit in the Municipality.

After the last plenary session of the convention participating students left for a study visit to the Waste Water Recycling Plant of Dubai Municipality, Dubai Natural Sanctuary, Sheikh Saeed Al Maktoum House and the Heritage and Diving Village.