Minister of Environment and Ministerial Coordinator and Envoy for the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, Yasmine Fouad participated on Tuesday 14/2/2023 in the dialogue session titled “Women’s Leadership Towards Sustainability”, which was held within the activities of the World Government Summit (WGS) 2023, currently held in Dubai.

During the session, the minister discussed challenges, opportunities, forming mechanisms to face these challenges, improving the quality of life and promoting scientific and technological progress.

The minister emphasized that the Egyptian government has taken many measures to achieve sustainability, where the Ministries of Environment and Planning have led this process, which is led by female elements, by setting many measures.

There are environmental sustainability standards have been set, with the aim of integrating them into development plans, and the green public investments has been increased 30% in the fiscal year 2021/2022 until reaching 100% of green projects by 2030, she added.

Source: State Information Service Egypt