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- Deputy Minister for Infrastructure: We aim to assess and prioritize environmental challenges ... and develop an action plan to confront them

 

Dr. Syed Ismail, Deputy Minister of Housing for Infrastructure Affairs, said that a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Ministry of Housing and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the framework for green cities, and it was signed by Accountant Ahmed Saeed, Vice President of Urban Communities Authority for Financial and Administrative Affairs, Odile Reinoud Basu, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in the presence of Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, Major General Mahmoud Shaarawi, Minister of Local Development, and Major General Khaled Abdel Aal, Governor of Cairo.

 

Ismail added, in a press release, today, Friday, that the Memorandum of Understanding aims to assess and prioritize environmental challenges, develop an action plan to address these challenges, through political interventions and sustainable investments in infrastructure, and identify projects within the scope of green cities, which depend on A comprehensive methodology for mitigating the negative impacts of climate change.

 

The Deputy Minister of Housing for Infrastructure Affairs affirmed the preference of green cities in terms of economic return, the cost of construction in the medium and long term, and its relationship to reducing environmental risks and citizen health, stressing the ministry's interest in the sustainability of infrastructure projects in water, reuse of treated wastewater, sludge management and diversion. To energy, and sustainable investment in new cities, as Egypt witnessed a boom in establishing new cities, especially fourth-generation cities, over the past years.

 

Sayed Ismail pointed out that the priority areas in the new cities affiliated to the New Urban Communities Authority (NUCA) are Sixth of October City, through solid waste management, water and sanitation, urban roads, lighting, urban transportation, energy efficiency in public buildings, and energy. Renewable, energy efficient electricity infrastructure.

 

The Deputy Minister of Housing added that the ongoing projects for water and sanitation, financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, include the wastewater services project in Kafr El Sheikh, which serves 470 thousand people in 62 villages, and the expansion project of the sewage water plant in Fayoum, with the aim of developing and implementing the infrastructure. Integrated sanitation infrastructure and increased sanitation coverage in rural areas.

Minister of Local Development and International Cooperation with officials of the Ministry of Housing and the European Bank