The Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Patricia Espinosa, has invited Egyptian Environment Minister Khaled Fahmi to attend the Bonn Climate Change conference (COP 23), due to be held in November.
During a meeting on the fringe of the Sixteenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) in Gabon, she expressed desire to send a mission to Egypt to stand on Egypt's needs to reduce green-house gas emissions in order to merge climate change strategies into development industries and get the private sector to join the development march.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral cooperation.
Espinosa lauded Egypt's commitment to the UNFCCC which was endorsed by the Egyptian parliament several weeks ago.
The ultimate objective of the UNFCCC - inked by 197 Parties - is to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.
She also commended the efforts exerted by Egypt
during its two-year chairmanship of the AMCEN - which ended in 2017 - to curb climate change in such watershed stage.
Egypt is scheduled to host the Fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Conventon on Biological Diversity in 2018.
Fahmi pledged to cooperate with all African states during the conference, especially with Gabon which is the current chair of the AMCEN, for the best interests of the African nations.
He noted that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi - as the Chairman of the Committee of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC) - had launched two important overtures; the Africa renewable energy initiative and the Africa adaptation initiative.
Development partners pledged to offer 10 million dollars to the Africa renewable energy initiative. 

Source: MENA