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Sustainable infrastructure is crucial to ensuring that rural communities are resilient and self-sufficient. Building resilience for communities through sustainable infrastructure allows them to be autonomous and responsive to adverse shocks such as food and nutrition insecurity, poverty, climate and human-made shocks such as drought and land degradation respectfully.

Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation

As a signatory to the significant climate change protocols such as the Paris Climate Agreement, the Egyptian Government is involved in largescale climate-change resilience operations, particularly in food security, energy and waste management. The Egyptian Government is also collaborating with its partners to mitigate risks associated with extreme climate change by encouraging the integration of various technologies, services and tools to equip communities better to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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Egypt

The ministry of environment has a national strategy for adaptation to climate change and reduction of its associated risks that aims to strengthen the capacity of Egyptians to cope with the risks and damages caused by climate change and its effects on economic activity.

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Sustainable Energy

Egypt is one of the leading African countries in the transition to renewable energy. The Government through the ministry of Environment is currently expanding its green economy towards biogas development and, solar and wind energy with the goal for renewable energy to supply 42% of national electricity by 2030.

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With the next session of the global climate change summit, COP27, to be held in Sharm El sheikh, Egypt later this year, H.E President Abdel Fattah El Sisi is aiming to upscale and fast track developments ahead of the conference.

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