Al-Ahsa Municipality is participating in the 12th World Urban Forum in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, where it is reviewing its experience in drawing up sustainable development plans and promising investment by transferring future urban development outside the urban area with the aim of preserving the lands of the Al-Ahsa agricultural oasis, which is classified as the largest self-contained palm oasis in the world according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This comes within the efforts of the Ministry of Municipalities and Housing to highlight the promotion of sustainable development goals. Al-Ahsa Mayor, Eng. Essam bin Abdul Latif Al-Mulla, explained that the Secretariat's participation in the 12th World Urban Forum in Cairo will include reviewing the planning results in preserving the agricultural oasis from decreasing to be the urban feature of new residential sites that keep pace with city standards, as the strategic plan of Al-Ahsa Municipality has set a future vision to achieve the preservation of the oasis through several axes, most notably (allocating five sites for housing with a total area of ​​52 million square meters, allocating five tourist sites with a total area of ​​12 million square meters, 4 sites allocated for educational services with an area of ​​11 million square meters, allocating four sites for health services with a total area of ​​15 million square meters, 5 industrial sites allocated in the Al-Ahsa Oasis with an area of ​​13 million square meters), in addition to three sites on the coast of Al-Ahsa. Eng. Al-Mulla added: Through the strategic plan, Al-Ahsa looks forward to becoming a humane city that keeps pace with the requirements of sustainable growth, by transferring service activities outside the urban area, and transferring commercial and polluting projects outside the oasis. It is noteworthy that the activities of the twelfth session of the World Urban Forum "WUF12", organized by the United Nations Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), will be held during the period "4 - 8 November 2024" in Cairo. The forum is the second largest event on the United Nations agenda, after the United Nations Climate Change Conference.