Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad launched Wednesday Egypt’s National Climate Change Strategy-2050 on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
Attending the announcement event, were, the Regional Director of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Sustainable Development Department for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Ayat Soliman, and Resident Coordinator of UNDP, Egypt, Elena Panova, according to a ministry statement issued in Cairo on Wednesday.
The strategy will enable Egypt to plan for facing and managing climate change at different levels, besides enhancing efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals in line with Egypt Vision 2030, Fouad said.
The strategy includes two stages: The first phase is the general framework that was approved in June and the second is the preparation of the full strategy.
The Egyptian government adopts several approaches that aim to achieve the goals of the National Climate Change Strategy-2050, including ensuring comprehensive planning among various sector and national strategies in addition to merging the procedures related to climate change and sustainability standards in the national planning and budget preparation, said the ministers.
Others include merging climate adaptation in infrastructure projects, benefiting from the available funding options under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, and other climate-related sources.
The minister further explained that the strategy seeks to accomplish five goals: Achieving sustainable economic growth, enhancing adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change, enhancing climate change action governance, enhancing scientific research, technology transfer, knowledge, and public awareness for combating climate change, and maximizing energy efficiency.
