Monday 09/Jun/2025 – 12:27 PM
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, went to the French city of Nice to participate in the activities of the third United Nations Oceanic Conference UNOC3, and attend the opening session of the conference on behalf of President Abdel Fattah El -Sisi.
The conference will be held during the period from 9 to 13 June 2025, in the presence of representatives of governments and international financial institutions, NGOs, researchers, groups of civil society and the private sector, and the Environment Ambassador Heidi Serry the Consul General of Egypt in Marseille, and Professor Tamer Abu Ghara, the Minister of International Cooperation, will participate with the Minister of Environment.
Dr. Yasmine Fouad emphasized that the conference focuses on three main goals, namely preserving marine biological diversity, preserving fish traps, and enhancing achieving the global goal of the global framework for biological diversity “30×30”, and also discusses challenges and opportunities related to the fourteenth goal of the United Nations goals for sustainable development for preserving oceans, seas and marine resources and using them in a sustainable way for sustainable development.
The Minister of Environment goes to Nice in France to participate in the third United Nations Oceanic Conference UNOC3
Dr. Yasmine Fouad explained that plastic pollution will be one of the important topics raised at the table of the current session of the conference, especially in light of the negotiation process to establish a global treaty for plastic pollution (INC) to unify global efforts to counter this salt challenge to maintain health and the environment. The conference will be an important station in mobilizing the visions of countries and needs in preparation for the Fifth Inc5 negotiating round to be held in Geneva in August 2025.
The Minister of Environment will participate in a number of important sessions and events during the conference, where the first session of the high -level event of the fiftieth anniversary of the average work plan and the thirtieth anniversary of the Barcelona Convention will be in the presence of a constellation of environmental ministers and biological diversity and representatives of the United Nations organizations, and the event aims to gather state ministers to announce ambitious national measures to protect the Mediterranean and also unify efforts to confront The triple challenge facing the Mediterranean region, which is the climate, biological diversity and pollution, especially plastic pollution.
The Egyptian Minister of Environment also participates during the conference in a number of activities for unifying efforts to confront plastic pollution, including the consultative ministerial meeting on the plastic pollution treaty, to study ways to move forward towards the fifth negotiating round in Inc5 to be held in Geneva in August 2025, with a focus on the third, sixth and eleventh materials related to products and chemicals, production and sustainable consumption Production and financing. Also, the special event expands the scope of solutions for the Mediterranean region free of plastic, which focuses on tracking the path of plastic pollution and confronting it and strengthening regional and international alliances towards a medium cleaner and correct.
