Mar 27, 2022

Yasser Badry Saturday 3/26/2022 Today, Saturday, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, launched the activities of the First National Dialogue on Climate Change from Al Salam City, Sharm El Sheikh, South Sinai Governorate, as a continuation of Egypt’s preparations to host the Cop 27 climate conference during the month of next November, in the presence of Major General Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai, and representatives of members of the House of Representatives and the Senate. And the media, civil and local society, youth, representatives of Al-Azhar and the Church, a number of young YouTubers and social media sites, a number of public figures and leaders of the Ministry of Environment. Dr. Yasmine Fouad stressed that launching the national dialogue on climate change is a message to the world that the twenty-seventh climate conference is primarily an executive conference in which Egypt begins with itself as a message to the world from the land of peace to peace with nature to reduce the effects of climate change at all levels, starting with the citizen and with the participation of media professionals. And clerics, civil society, youth and women to reconcile with planet Earth so that Egypt’s hosting of the Cop27 Climate Conference is the beginning of the transition to implementation for the world by integrating confronting climate changes into the lives of individuals and society as a whole and preparing partnerships with the private sector in all Egyptian governorates. Fouad added that Egypt has given great importance to the issue of raising awareness because it is the cornerstone of informing the citizen how to contribute to confronting climate change through daily life by rationalizing the consumption of water, energy and resources. Hence the launch of the national dialogue to begin in all governorates of Egypt. The Minister of the Environment explained that the work to host the climate conference came out of the political leadership’s belief in environmental work and Egypt’s role in addressing it. Therefore, the task of preparing for the conference came through the committee formed under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister to show Egypt in its new developmental form and with its efforts and projects that take into account the protection of the environment on its way to the Republic. New things that are taken 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 climate change, the most important of which are seawater desalination and wastewater reuse projects, in addition to projects to protect the Nile Delta, use of renewable energy and environmentally friendly alternative energies, the Amban Energy Project... and other projects that Egypt is working on. It was established to confront the effects of climate change, even though Egypt’s emissions of greenhouse gases do not exceed 1%. Fouad pointed out that we must be well aware that climate change has now become a reality in our lives and we must all contribute to solving it because we are all reaping its effects in the weather fluctuations we are witnessing and the unusual climatic effects of forest fires and other global effects.