The Egyptian Youth and Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi launched a bike festival with the participation of 1,500 youths from various countries that take part in the 17th United Nations Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY17) in Sharm el-Sheikh on November 2-4.
In a statement on Thursday, the ministry said the event is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Youth and sports and the Environment Ministry.
The United Nations and its affiliated offices in Egypt support the event.
Minister Ashraf Sobhi said the ministry is deeply interested in holding several sport marathons to entrench the importance of practicing sports.
The UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY) is an annual event under the banner of YOUNGO – The Official Youth Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
COY, the largest and longest running youth event to date, takes place right before, and on the sideline of, the annual UN Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP). Where COY serves as a space for capacity building and policy training, in order to prepare young people for their participation at COP, empower them, and formally bring their voices to the UNFCCC processes to shape the intergovernmental climate change policies.
