Egypt’s Minister of Local Development, Hesham Amna, met on Sunday a host of executive officials, including Cairo’s Governor, Khaled Abdel Aal, and Jacqueline Azer, deputy governor of Alexandria, to review preparations for the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, which will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh next month.
Discussions between the minister and the officials he met especially focused on the transport of delegations participating in the conference inside the Red Sea resort city.
The transport authorities in Cairo and Alexandria, the minister said, would contribute 210 buses to transfer the members of the delegations participating in the conference to different sites in Sharm el-Sheikh.
He added that 210 vehicles include 100 that operate on natural gas and 110 electronic ones.
The minister noted that state agencies attach great importance to COP27 as an international event.
He revealed that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli follow preparations for the conference very closely through a supreme committee formed to appraise these preparations.
“The event has to be organized in a way that befits Egypt’s international standing,” the minister said.
He referred to commands by Egypt’s political leadership for considering COP27 as the beginning for declaring Sharm el-Sheikh as a green city that enjoys green, sustainable and environment-friendly transportation.
During the meeting, the minister and the officials attending reviewed efforts made by the Ministry of Transport to complete the electricity and gas bus charging system in Sharm el-Sheikh through the construction of charging stations.
Governor Abdel Aal briefed meeting attendees about the measures taken by the Public Transport Authority in Cairo to add modern, environmentally-friendly buses to its fleet.
The new buses, he said, aim to improve services.
The governor added that Cairo Governorate authorities would provide all the necessary facilities for the issuance of licences for the new buses.
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