NEOM Academy Set to Receive 1,000 Students

NEOM Academy via SPA
NEOM Academy via SPA
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NEOM Academy Set to Receive 1,000 Students

NEOM Academy via SPA
NEOM Academy via SPA

NEOM launched on Tuesday its first initiative to train national cadres to work in NEOM Project which will take place through " NEOM Vocational Diploma Ending with in Employment" program that aims to improve the technical skills of more than 6,000 trainees in the upcoming five years.

It also aims to localize jobs in NEOM’s different sectors and to involve them in the building of the largest project of its kind in the world.

The program in it’s 1st year will receive 1,000 students in three fields: Tourism, hospitality and cybersecurity.

The students will receive the training in NEOM Academy, that was launched in January 2020, in partnership with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC) and the University of Tabuk.

The program will support the objectives of the Saudi Vision 2030, developing the national manpower in different fields which will promote the growth of non-oil local production.

Director of NEOM Eng. Nadhmi Al-Nasr said that empowering competent people is one of the objectives of NEOM, expressing his satisfaction to witness the launching of the project that will enable citizens of this nation to participate in building NEOM project.

He also extended thanks to all partners who contributed to the launch of the academy.

NEOM Vocational Diploma Ending with in Employment" program is of the programs that NEOM launched to build the capacity of the community.



Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire

Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024. MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP/File
Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024. MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP/File
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Brazil Records 65 Percent Drop in Amazon Area Burned by Fire

Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024. MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP/File
Aerial view of a fire in the Amazon rainforest near the northern Brazilian city of Labrea on September 4, 2024. MICHAEL DANTAS / AFP/File

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas monitoring platform said Wednesday, boosting the government as it prepares to host the UN climate change conference.

Satellite images showed that 143,000 hectares (353,360 acres) of the world's biggest tropical forest were razed by fires last month, down dramatically from the same month last year, when a historic drought whipped up record numbers of fires, AFP reported.

The figure -- the smallest since MapBiomas began monthly satellite mapping of fire damage in 2019 -- comes three months before President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hosts the COP30 UN conference in the Amazon city of Belem.

Across Brazil, 748,000 hectares of land were consumed by fire in July, down 40 percent on last year.

Between January and July, a total of 2.45 million hectares burned across Brazil, down 59 percent over the same period in 2024.

The Cerrado, a vast region of tropical savannah in central Brazil, suffered the worst destruction in July, with 571,000 hectares going up in flames, down 16 percent in a year.

Felipe Martenexen, a researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute, attributed the improvements to a "more intense and sustained rainy season" this year.

He added that the environmental and economic damage wrought by the 2024 fires and increased surveillance by the authorities of land clearance may also have "led farmers and residents to be more careful."

While drought abetted the spread of fires last year, many of the blazes were started illegally by people clearing land for agriculture.

Lula has pledged to end Amazon deforestation by 2030.