Friday 28/Feb/2025 – 09:55 AM
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, met with Fran Katsodas, Executive Vice President and Head of Human Resources and Policy Department of one of the leading companies in the field of information technology and the accompanying delegation, to discuss joint cooperation in linking information technology, achieving environmental sustainability and preserving natural resources.
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, reviewed a summary of the features of changing the perception of the environment in Egypt and moving towards the green transformation in Egypt, which started since 2015, as an important step in the path of rooting the understanding of the citizen and decision -makers and partners of the importance of preserving the environment and building national capabilities in that, and looking at the environment from an economic perspective, translating challenges and environmental opportunities in numbers that explain the size of cost and returns, in areas Such as pollution reduction, waste management.
We seek to benefit from technological progress in reducing pollution and monitoring pollution in the seas and oceans
The Minister of Environment also pointed to Egypt’s interest in the climate file as a global challenge that has its national effects, which was a motivation to develop the National Council for Climate Changes under the chairmanship of the Prime Minister and the membership of the ministries and the relevant authorities, before Egypt hosts the COP27 Climate Conference in the years, which helped to launch the national climate change strategy 2050, and to issue an updated national contributions plan and update it again to raise the ambition to achieve 42% Renewable energy in the energy mixture by 2030, and work to update it for the third time with ambitious goals, and we seek to benefit from technological progress in reducing pollution and monitoring pollution in the seas and oceans
Fouad pointed out that the possibility of cooperation in benefiting from technological progress in the field of reducing pollution, preserving biological diversity and monitoring pollution in the seas and oceans, as well as cooperation in implementing a pioneering project in the field of linking waste management to artificial intelligence and information technology as a promising opportunity for national and Arab cooperation, within the framework of cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to prepare the Arab strategy for the revolutionary economy. We provide case studies, including the Egyptian model in transforming challenge To an opportunity to rotate rice straw, which is a causing the phenomenon of the black cloud, by encouraging farmers to benefit from it instead of burning it by providing incentives and equipment and creating a market for selling products resulting from its rotation, which transformed the rice straw into an economic resource, in addition to that cooperation in linking technology to waste management and involving its private sector, achieves many advantages, including reducing pollution, maintaining public health, and reducing Green retention emissions and power generation, while creating green job opportunities.
