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Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, launches the activities of the first national dialogue for climate change
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Mar 27, 2022
Yasser Badri Saturday 26-2022 Today, Saturday, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, launched the activities of the first national dialogue for climate change from the city of Salam, Sharm El -Sheikh, in the South Sinai Governorate, in continuation of Egypt's preparation for hosting the COP 27 climate conference during the month of November in the presence of Major General Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai, representatives of the members of the House of Representatives, Sheikhs, media professionals, civil society, local, youth, representatives Utubar, social media, and a number of public figures and leaders of the Ministry of Environment. Dr. Yasmine Fouad emphasized that the launch of the national dialogue for climate changes is a message to the world that the twenty -seventh climate conference is an executive conference in the first place in which Egypt begins itself as a message to the world from the land of peace for peace with nature to reduce the effects of climate changes at all levels starting from the citizen and with the participation of media professionals, clerics, civil society, youth and women to reconcile with the planet to be the hosting of Egypt COP27 is the beginning of the transition to implementation of the world by integrating the confrontation of climate changes in the lives of individuals and society as a whole and preparing partnerships with the private sector in all Egyptian governorates. Fouad added that Egypt gave the issue of raising awareness of great importance because it is the cornerstone of the citizen’s definition of how it contributes to addressing climate changes through a daily life by rationalizing consumption of water, energy and resources from here came the launch of the national dialogue to start in all governorates of Egypt. The Minister of Environment explained that the work to host the climate conference came as a belief from the political leadership of the environmental work and the role of Egypt in addressing it, so the commission of preparing for the conference through the committee formed headed by the Prime Minister to show Egypt in its new development form and its efforts and projects in which the environmental protection is taken into account in its way to the new republic that takes into account. Sustainable development in all its projects and addressing the effects of climate change. The Minister of Environment reviewed Egypt's efforts and projects to address climatic changes, the most important of which are seawater desalination projects and the re -use of wastewater in addition to the Nile Delta protection projects and the use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly alternative energies and the Empian Energy Project ... and other projects that Egypt works to establish to face the effects of climate changes despite the fact that Egypt's emissions from global warming do not It exceeds 1%. Fouad indicated that we must be well aware that climatic changes have now become a reality in our lives that we must all contribute to resolving them because we all reap their effects in what we are witnessing from weather fluctuations and unusual climatic effects from forest fires other global monuments.