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• Reduce the energy consumption in buildings,
• Enhance energy efficiency by adopting climate change adaptation measures,
• Electricity production and management at the local level (such as public street lighting),
• Sustainable and clean urban transport,
• Production of energy from non‐conventional sources (renewable energy),
• Sustainable tourism and its facilities (Heritage and antiquities’ sites, and museums), and
• Solid waste and wastewater management.
The inclusive SEAP process is defined in the Guidebook developed for the South Mediterranean
countries 1 by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EU, as a top‐down procedure, including:
1) Initiation:
- Establish political commitment (the agreement with MoFA and selected governorates),
- Support in developing appropriate governance structure, and
- Build stakeholders support.
2) Planning:
- Assess current policy framework,
- Establish and conduct the Baseline Emission Inventory (BEI),
- Develop the Vision: at least decrease 20 per cent of CO 2 emissions in or across required
and/or selected sectors by 2020 (not mandatory),
- Elaborate the plan, and
- Secure sustainable financial resources to support implementations and projects’ funding.
3) Implementation:
- Approve and submit the SEAPs (SECAPs), and
- Implement the SEAPs (SECAPs).
4) Assessment, Monitoring and Reporting:
- Assess the results of implementation,
- Monitor SEAPs (SECAPs) actions, and
- Report the findings the SEAPs (SECAPs).
In Egypt, two Governorates are partnering with CES‐MED project for the development and executing
of the SEAP (SECAP) action plans in full collaboration and coordination with the MoFA – the NFP:
• Red Sea (City of Hurghada), North East, falling under the Ministry of Local Development (MoLD),
• Luxor (City of Luxor), South, Upper Egypt, falling under the MoLD.
The objective of the report is to review the current legal framework in the concerned area and produce
a national recommendations paper identifying a set of actions at the national level based on the
challenges and constraints in the area of sustainable energy savings, and more precisely, the best
accompanying measures required at the national level to assist local authorities in the formulation
and implementation of sustainable energy policies and actions such as those formulated in SEAPs
(SECAPs) and to compliment Egypt’s Vision 2030, yet contribute towards Egypt’s SD Strategy 2030.
Moreover, improve the ranking of Egypt and the two governorates at both the regional and
international level such as the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI).
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The author of this report has had the pleasure to attend and participate in the EC JRC Experts meetings held between the
3 rd and 4 th of December 2013 in Ispra, Italy, to review this COM Guidebook, released in April 2014.
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THIS PROJECT IS FINANCED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION AND IS IMPLEMENTED BY THE HUMAN DYNAMICS CONSORTIUM