Chapter Zero Egypt held its fourth awareness session entitled “Reporting guidelines for businesses” within its comprehensive awareness mission to educate Business leaders on the opportunities and challenges of Climate change and climate governance. The seminar was hosted in El Sewedy Electric premises where participants were welcomed by Manal Hassan the Chief Susta ...

Florika Fink-Hooijer, the Director-General for the Environment of the European Commission, visited Cairo from October 29 to October 31, 2023, to enhance cooperation between the European Union and Egypt regarding environmental issues. During her stay, the Director-General gave a speech at the opening of Cairo Water Week’s sixth edition, where she emphasized the significance of s ...

The Minister of International Cooperation, H.E. Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, chaired the first high-level coordination meeting to discuss the mobilization of innovative financing tools for the energy pillar of the Nexus of Water, Food, and Energy platform (NWFE program). The program aims to implement renewable energy projects with a total capacity of 10GW, and the meeting was held at the ...

Centamin, a leading global gold mining company, has announced a new plan to extend the productive life of the Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt until 2034. The plan aims to increase gold production, lower costs, reduce operational risks, and significantly decrease carbon emissions by using solar energy and grid power instead of diesel for electricity generation. The new plan expec ...

Egypt is mulling to build a plant to produce the environment-friendly sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in partnership with US-based conglomerate Honeywell. Egyptian Oil Minister Tareq Al-Mulla discussed the possible partnership with Honeywell executives in Cairo on Friday, newspapers reported on Sunday. According to reports, Mulla told the executives th ...

The EFG Foundation for Social Development, a non-profit, non-governmental organization, EFG Holding’s Foundation for Social Development, is excited to announce that it has won first place in Luxor at the Smart Green Project Competition by The National Initiative for Smart Green Projects in the non-profit projects category for its Green Footprint Initiative. The Found ...

According to Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker, Egypt will soon begin implementing a national strategy to become a major producer and exporter of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen will soon play a significant role as a major source of energy for the entire world, according to Shaker. It is essential for lowering carbon dioxide emissions and accel ...

The USAID Economic Governance Project Activity, funded by the (USAID) in partnership with PepsiCo, PepsiCo Foundation, Plug, and Play Tech Center, the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), in collaboration with the Arab Youth Center, and Forbes Middle East, PepsiCo, and Plug and Play, proudly concludes the Arab Youth Hackathon in Egypt. The Hackat ...

Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, met with Neo Gim Huay, Managing Director for the WEF’s Centre for Nature and Climate, during the WEF’s Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in New York, which coincided with the 78th session of the UN General Assembly. They talked over ways to work together to advance development efforts and gai ...

IFC is partnering with Banque du Caire to develop a climate finance strategy that will help protect the bank from climate risks, invest in green activities, and support the decarbonization of Egypt’s economy. With 95 percent of Egyptians living on roughly 5 percent of the country’s land near bodies of water, Egypt is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate chan ...