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development and implementation, including support on the EE and RE measures, energy audits, and
development of economic energy project.
At the NFP recent meeting held on 28 th August 2016, the tasks of the ‘Joint Services Council - JSC’ to
prompt energy conservation and energy efficiency in the future were presented. Once the new Local
Development law is endorsed, hopefully in 2017, the proposed ‘JSC’ could significantly add value. In
both cases the awareness, knowledge, experience and measures in developing SEAPs (SECAPs),
initiating projects and managing the implementation could be supported by many stakeholders,
notably NREA in the initial phase (refer to Figure 3).
It is vital to protect Egyptian Heritage sites and Antiquities, especially in Luxor, where most of these
heritages sites and antiquities (temples and tombs) exist. With the increased tourist influx visiting these
places, such strategies become even more important. Also, tourists’ related logistics and excessive
transport activities to move their buses in and about these sites will lead, not only to the increase in
CO 2 emissions from vehicles, but also causes vibrations – especially near tombs and temples as well as
near the two Memnon statues, on the way to the Valley of Kings – and causing air pollution, besides
fatigue and perhaps leading to cracks on the long term. This also can vastly be noticed in Luxor when
tourists in large numbers are moved from the Western bank to the Eastern bank of the River Nile to
visit Al-Karnack Temple, where most of the current means of water transport, if not all (small passenger
boats/ dhows), are run by diesel, which emit a high level of CO 2 into the air. Thus, it causes air pollution
and eventually results in a huge impact on the statues and the sustainability of Egyptian heritage sites
in the World’s Cultural City Luxor.
Obliquely, the Governorate of Red Sea will have the same pattern, but in a different scenario since the
City of Hurghada will have a big share of the strategy implementation in increasing the number of
tourists by 2030.
The SEAPs (SECAPs) can provide support in developing plans and projects to enhance the heritage
sites’ management in terms of its sustainability and climate actions as well as offering green
solutions. Also, the SEAPs (SECAPs) could fit well to play a key role and take part in achieving the
recommendations and joined declaration that resulted from the First Arab Ministerial Meeting held on
December 23, 2015 in Cairo, Egypt. In addition, the recommendations of the First Arab Forum on
Sustainable Communities and Green Building (1 st AFSCGB’14 held between 8 th and 10 th of November
2014 in Cairo, Egypt that addressed Sustainable Communities and Green Building and other
environmental issues) could assist in the development of SEAPs (SECAPs).
The second Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) Ministerial Conference on Sustainable Urban
Development to be held in Egypt in May 2017 would be an excellent forum to report some of the CES-
MED Project’s progress and development in the South Mediterranean countries.
The CES-MED project can assist in achieving the National Sustainable Development Strategy 2030
where the GoEG aims at accomplishing SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, and its sub-goals, mainly:
Goal 7.1 - Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030.
Goal 7.2 - Increase the share of renewable energy substantially in the global energy mix by 2030.
Goal 7.3 - Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030.
In addition, the local governorates can contribute to sustainable energy savings through SEAPs
(SECAPs) implementation. The following section summarises the legal and institutional framework with
the aim to suggest recommendations that would assist in the SEAPs (SECAPs) implementation in the
two selected governorates.
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