CAIRO – Egyptian Minister of Environment Yassmin Fouad declared Egypt’s national strategy for climate change 2025, which is set to enable the country to manage the climate change challenge in a way that serves its desirable economic and developmental goals through lowering carbon emissions.
Fouad’s remarks came at a conference, organized by the Ministry of Environment, to launch the national strategy for climate change, with the presence of Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, International Cooperation Minister Rania el Masaht, Planning Minister Hala el Saeed, Petroleum Minister Tarek el Molla, Agriculture Minister el Sayed el Qusair, Trade Minister Nivene Gamea, along withUN Resident Coordinator in Egypt Elena Panova, and other representatives from House of Representatives, UN, and industrial unions.
Fouad said the strategy placed the well-being of the Egyptian citizen as a top priority, as well as effectively tackling the consequences of the climate change to improve the quality of life for the people, achieve sustainable development and economic growth, in addition to protecting the natural resources, and reinforcing Egypt’s leading role at the international level in the climate change field.
Egypt is highly vulnerable to be impacted by the climate change crisis, due to the increase in the Mediterranean Sea level, and the risk of food and water security, Fouad said.
The national strategy for climate change is devised to serve five goals. The first is achieving sustainable development and lowering carbon emissions in different sectors through increasing the share of the renewable energy in the national power mix and the second is showing resilience and ability to adapt to the phenomenon of climate change through alleviating its consequences and impacts on people.
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