World
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Africa
7/19/2022 3:01:32 PM
Officials are meeting in Kigali in Rwanda this week as part of the continent's first-ever Africa Protected Areas Congress in a bid to expand the preservation of land and marine wildlife, despite little funding and the low quality of many existing conservation areas in the region.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2022 11:23:26 PM
German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht praised on Monday Egypt’s efforts in hosting more than 6 million refugees and providing them with decent lives despite the huge burdens this puts on the country.
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World
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International
7/18/2022 3:51:45 PM
Officials from 40 countries met Monday in Berlin to discuss how to stay focused on fighting the increasing impacts of climate change while the world reels from the economic fallout of the pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2022 1:03:39 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said the current global crises place a great responsibility on the international community to address climate change and achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement and the outcomes of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP26) held in Glasgow last year.
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World
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International
7/18/2022 12:32:09 PM
Britain and France went on high alert on Monday, bracing for record temperatures from a punishing heatwave as deadly wildfires raging in parts of southwest Europe showed no sign of abating.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2022 12:23:00 PM
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry stressed on Monday the importance of acting swiftly to ensure that climate action issues remain at the top of the international agenda.
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World
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International
7/18/2022 10:35:00 AM
With the world reeling from the economic fallout of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, senior officials from 40 countries were meeting Monday in Berlin for heart-to-heart talks on how to stay focused on fighting climate change.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2022 9:52:00 AM
Egypt’s Foreign Minister and President Designate of the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) Sameh Shoukry discussed preparations for the conference in Berlin on Sunday with the UN Climate Change Acting Executive Secretary and UN Undersecretary General Ibrahim Thiaw.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/18/2022 9:51:00 AM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi headed on Sunday to the German capital of Berlin to co-chair the 13th edition of the Petersburg Climate Dialogue that will open on Monday, Egypt's Presidential Spokesperson Bassam Rady said in a statement.
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World
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International
7/17/2022 6:47:53 PM
Firefighters battled wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain on Sunday as Europe wilted under an unusually extreme heat wave that authorities in Madrid blamed for hundreds of deaths.
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Business
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Economy
7/17/2022 5:22:47 PM
COP27 is an opportunity to increase awareness of business community and general public of ways to find financial resources for green transitions, Emad Hassan, the team leader of the Green Economy Financing Facility (GEFF) programme of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), stressed in an interview with Ahram Online.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/16/2022 10:42:09 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs and President-Designate of the COP27 Sameh Shoukry reviewed Egypt’s vision and goals on the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) in a telephone call with Prince Charles, the ministry announced on Saturday.
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World
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International
7/16/2022 5:43:23 PM
Southwest Europe endured a sixth day of a summer heatwave on Saturday that has triggered devastating forest fires as parts of the continent braced for new temperature records early next week.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/15/2022 2:00:00 PM
Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has underscored in a meeting with Egypt’s Ambassador to Pakistan Tarek Dahroug on Friday his government’s resolve to strengthen cooperation with Egypt in trade, investment, energy, education and climate change.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/14/2022 6:58:47 PM
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi will conduct a visit to Germany’s capital, Berlin, on 17-18 July to meet with German officials and attend the Petersburg Climate Dialogue, the German Embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday.
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World
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Region
7/14/2022 4:36:05 PM
The United Arab Emirates is investing $2 billion to launch food processing centres across India that will use climate-smart technologies to help reduce waste and conserve fresh water.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/14/2022 4:15:31 PM
Ambassador David Thorne, Senior Adviser to the Climate Envoy in the United States, expressed his happiness with his recent visit to Egypt as part of the expanded conference organised by the Egyptian-American Chamber of Commerce.
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World
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International
7/13/2022 4:03:11 PM
A spate of wildfires is scorching Western Europe, with firefighters battling blazes in Portugal, Spain and southern France on Wednesday amid an unusual heat wave that authorities are linking to climate change.
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World
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International
7/8/2022 1:00:00 PM
Ahram Online spoke to Petteri Taalas, secretary general of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), about his cooperation with Egypt to prepare for the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) and their efforts to empower African Nations with early warning services to predict extreme weather events.
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World
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International
7/7/2022 7:01:28 PM
As Congress and now the Supreme Court stymie the Biden administration's efforts to curb climate change, one thing the president doesn't want - sky high gas prices - actually is nibbling away at emissions of heat-trapping gas.
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