The Qatar Sustainability Conference 2010 is a platform for local experts from the construction industry to address sensitive green issues. These include critical topics such as recycling, efficient water use and renewable building materials.

Through Qatar's dramatic construction boom during the last decade, we have witnessed a breathtaking high-rise skyline bloom from the desert sands.

However, in the race to build, the use of sustainable technologies has not been prioritized as it has elsewhere around the world.

Qatar's environmental record makes for sharp reading for those overseeing its emergence as a modern, forward-thinking state.

Local water usage figures are some of the highest recorded worldwide, despite Qatar giving no natural surface water. Desalination is key for the vast majority of the country’s water supply - an expensive process that steeply increases Qatar's already enormous carbon footprint.

The Qatar Sustainability Conference 2010 will examine these issues and more, to establish how the most recent green thinking trends can play in Qatar's future.