Egypt: Climate Change Risk Management in Egypt
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $4,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies FAO, UNDP, IFAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNEP
Main Achievements
- Energy Efficiency Unit established in the Cabinet of Ministers to support the Supreme Energy Council has raised the profile of energy efficiency. Three public agencies identified as potential hosts for EE units.
- Clean Development Awareness and Promotion Unit established inside the Egyptian Environmental Agency in partnership with the World Bank; plan to reduce energy consumption in public buildings created and approved.
- Six Regional Circulation model simulations finalized; more than 40 crop varieties tested to adapt to new climate conditions and institutional capacity for adapting to climate change developed.
Contact Mohamed Bayoumi, mohamed.bayoumi@undp.org
The aim of the proposed joint programme is to help Egypt align its climate risk management and human development efforts in pursuing the achievement of MDGs in the face of climate change and the predicted serious threats to the country.
In this context, the project will serve to reduce poverty and mitigate risk by combining mitigation and adaptation under one integrated Climate Risk Management (CRM) banner with a special attention given to the vulnerable poorest populations of Egypt through two complementary approaches: Mainstreaming GHG mitigation into national policy and investment frameworks, including increased CDM financing opportunities; enhancing the country’s capacity to adapt to climate change. The joint programme will build awareness and capacity of key decision makers and development actors to support the systematic integration of climate change as a new variable in key policy, regulatory, institutional and operational frameworks and implement pilot projects.