Day: January 12, 2023

Mahmoud Mohieldin, UN Climate Change High Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, welcomed Razan Al Mubarak as the UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for the UAE and COP28.

“During this critically important year for climate action, I am honoured to work alongside H.E. Al Mubarak to mobilize stronger and more ambitious climate action amongst non state actors with the aim of delivering on the goals and objectives of the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement which are reflected within the Sharm El-Sheikh Implementation Plan, especially the historical achievement in the field of loss and damage,” Mohieldin said.

“I look forward to our constructive and fruitful collaboration as we build the required momentum to achieve notable progress in the NSA efforts in a way that serves climate issues on the international agenda, especially in financing and investing in the measures of mitigation and adaptation to climate change,” Mohieldin concluded.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The State supports all the measures taken by the Tourism and Antiquities Ministry to increase the number of tourist arrivals, affirmed Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli.

Madbouli stressed the importance of developing archaeological sites across Egypt and promoting them in world countries in order to beef up the number of tourist arrivals.

Madbouli’s remarks came during his meeting Thursday with Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa and Assistant Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Technical Affairs Youmna el Bahar.

The meeting, meanwhile, reviewed the progress made so far in the Grand Egyptian Museum project ahead of its long-awaited inauguration.

Issa, for his part, referred to the executive status of the institutional development strategy, which is adopted by his ministry.

Such strategy mainly aims to raise the efficiency of the archaeological sites and upgrade the available services, the minister said during the meeting.

The minister further said that integrated training programs are being implemented with the aim of raising the efficiency of the cadres working in the ministry.

Source: State Information Service Egypt

The media center of the cabinet denied on Thursday 12/1/2023 reports about uprooting trees of Giza Zoo as part of development plans.

The center said it contacted the agriculture Ministry that dismissed as groundless the reports, saying all trees and rare plants in the garden will remain intact.

The ministry stressed that the zoo will be developed to be an open-range space with no cages, stressing that it will be highly secured with pre-set paths for visitors.

The Giza Zoo is the third oldest in the world, and the oldest in Africa. It was built by Khedive Ismail (1830-1895), the ruler of Egypt at the time, and opened in 1891.

The center urged all media outlets to verify the authenticity of reports before publishing them to avoid disrupting public order.

Source: State Information Service Egypt