BRUSSELS – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi chaired a roundtable on climate change as part of his current participation in the 6th AU-EU Summit.
During the session Thursday night, President Sisi asserted that Egypt’s hosting of the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2022 comes in view of Cairo’s recognition of the dangerous challenges posed by the phenomenon of climate change.
He pointed out that Egypt will seek that the summit comes up with balanced and applicable results to increase ambition about climate action with all its components, whether on the level of reduction of emissions or adaptation with the aim of building on the positive outcome of the previous climate conference held in Glasgow and to turn the pledges taken regarding the climate into an actual fact.
In this context, it is important to support the African continent in facing the climate change crisis including the provision of climate soft loans which is a cornerstone in all such efforts, Sisi explained.
He also reiterated the importance of supporting the just transformation of energy in Africa as part of efforts exerted to reduce carbon emissions and support the green transformation, noting in this regard to the importance of the African initiative on renewable energy which he launched on behalf of the African continent in 2015 as an influential framework for garnering up investments to the renewable energy sector, in addition to the need to raise necessary funds to implement a large number of power linkage projects that have been agreed upon among the African states, within the context of the program for development of the continent’s infrastructure.
Presidential Spokesman Ambassador Bassam Radi said the roundtable witnessed an open dialogue on efforts exerted to enhance partnership between Europe and Africa within the framework of international climate action. The conferees agreed on the importance of intensifying work in the coming phase to crystallize a common vision to face the climate change challenges till holding Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Summit by the end of this year.
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