Minister of Planning and Economic Development Hala El said stressed the importance of moving to decarbonized economy to face up to climate changes, especially that the net-zero shift would help create millions of green job opportunities.

During her participation Friday in a session entitled “Technical education for changing climate”, held on the sidelines on the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, the minister said supporting green job opportunities would in turn help improve energy efficiency, raw material availability, as well as reducing gas emissions, with a view to limiting any resource loss, curbing pollution, restoring the eco-system and enhancing climate change adaptions.

Decarbonization and shifting to zero-emissions would highly contribute to pressing ahead with further involving circular economy and generating future jobs, ElSaid said. She pointed out to the necessity of adapting current jobs to go with the new green model, saying that all drives would necessitate identifying required skills to build up toward an inclusive green economy.

ElSaid underscored the importance of rallying efforts of the public and the private sector in this regard, along with linking environment policies to efforts related to the education and training fields, to accelerate green job transition.

Meantime, she highlighted the importance of introducing green strategies into all academic curricula and the setting up of schools, along with technical technological universities to address green transformation needs.

Source: State Information Service Egypt