Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad launched on Wednesday Egypt’s National Climate Change Strategy 2050, during the minister’s participation in the meetings of the Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow, the UK.
Fouad pointed out that the climate change issue has witnessed a rising attention since 2019 and turned to be at a ministerial level as the national council for climate change is held under the presidency of the prime minister and membership of the concerned ministries.
She added that the ministry of environment has prepared for meetings to integrate climate change dimension in other sectors, including planning, finance and international cooperation as being cross-cutting ministries other than the conventional sectoral ministries that are affected by and have an effect on climate change.
Moreover, the Ministry of Environment prepared the Egypt National Climate Change Strategy 2050 in two phases: the framework phase approved last June and preparation of the entire strategy phase.
During the event, Ayat Soliman, the Regional Director of the World Bank Group’s Sustainable Development Department for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), commended the Egyptian strategy which is regarded as an integrated and comprehensive measure focusing on the social and economic aspects, governmental action, financing and scientific research through the earnest leadership of ministry of environment for this issue.
She also assured that the World Bank is currently in the process of supporting Egypt in strategy priorities’ studies and this is what the ministry of environment is doing now in cooperation with ministries of planning and Finance.
The ambitious strategy is believed to enable Egypt to plan and manage climate change on different levels, in addition to supporting the sustainable development goals and Egypt’s vision 2030 targets by following a resilient and low-emission approach through effectively addressing the impacts and consequences of climate change.
Fouad explained that the strategy would contribute to improving life quality for the Egyptian citizens and achieving sustainable economic growth as well as preserving natural resources and ecosystems, in addition to enhancing Egypt’s leadership on the international level in the field of climate change.
