Dr. MostafaMadbouly, Prime Minister, met with Alexandre de Croo, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium.
During the meeting, Madbouly praised the existing cooperation with Belgian companies in the field of clean energy and green hydrogen, stressing the government`s keenness to double this cooperation, and to facilitate the implementation of all Belgian companies` projects in Egypt.
The Belgian Prime Minister also praised the important messages contained in President El-Sisi’s opening speech on all the topics he addressed, explaining that the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Conference is being held amid extremely difficult global conditions due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, which resulted in great suffering for the countries of the world, stressing the importance of transferring Climate finance pledges to actual projects, in order to accelerate implementation of mitigation and adaptation programmes
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During the day, Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning and Economic Development, participated today in a symposium entitled "When will leaders lead? .. Creating financial space and directing funding for climate and health goals", in the presence of a number of world heads of state, and a wide international participation in the presence of more than 40 thousand People representing about 190 countries, dozens of international and regional organizations. .

She pointed out that the contribution of the African continent to climate change, which is the region most vulnerable to its impacts and the least contributing to it, as the continent’s contribution to global carbon emissions is close to 6%, and Africans export only 0.7 tons of carbon per capita annually, compared to a global average of 4.5 tons, however. The United Nations estimates the number of undernourished people in drought-prone sub-Saharan Africa increased by about 45% between 2012 and 2020, stressing that the solution is to invest the world in helping African countries expand their renewable energy capabilities through green hydrogen production. For example, allowing the growth and development of African countries to drive through sustainable means. .

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Shaima Al Sukari