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- National Action Plan for Adaptation – NAPA, and
- Climate Change Risk Management Programme – CCRMP, MoEnv (2013).
Initiatives
- Low Emission Capacity Building – UNDP, MoEnv and EEAA (2013 – 2016),
Institutions and Rating Systems:
- Central Unit for Sustainable Cities and Renewable Energy – CUSCRE (2014),
- Green Pyramid Rating System – GPRS (2012), and
- The Egyptian Green Building Council Ministerial Decree (2009).
Governorate and Municipal vision and strategy
The Governorate of Luxor developed a Green City Strategy 2030 - GCS “Luxor the Heritage City of the World”
that was launched on June 14, 2014. However, the implementation road map of the GCS has not been
published yet. The Governorate of Luxor also joined the Resilient Cities Acceleration Initiative (RCAI) in its 3 rd
phase with the objective to assist selected cities to be more resilient in confronting environmental challenges
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Keeping in mind its specific values and the local context, the City of Luxor develops a strategy consistent with
Egypt’s Vision 2030, Energy Strategy 2035 and National SDS 2030. This strategy is structured around two folds:
- Reduce energy consumption in all sectors through energy conservation and efficiency, in order to
provide better services while reducing costs and impacts, and
- Promote energy production from locally available renewable resources in order to cover as far as
possible energy needs from these decarbonised sources.
The City of Luxor - Governorate of Luxor developed and announced a Strategic Plan 2017, which promotes
many projects in the areas of infrastructure. The strategy is centred on the objective of promoting Luxor as a
green city. Within this strategy promoting clean and green transport system and sustainable water mobility
in the Nile river is absolutely central to reduce energy consumption and lower CO 2 emissions that impacts air
quality and the climate.
In addition, the Governorate is also intending to support the plan by informing and raising awareness of all
Governorate’ staff and citizens on the impact of climate change, upcoming risks and adaptation actions, as
well as the importance of applying sustainable energy measures.
The City of Luxor - Governorate of Luxor is planning to implement the Green Residential Plan (GRP) – based
on clean energy production and green solutions in the building sector. To support the vision in making the city
Green, the City of Luxor plans to:
- Expand the natural gas network to most of the residential buildings,
- Support the GRP to inform and raise the awareness all stakeholders including staff, citizens as well all
companies working in RE to support the plan and to transfer to the city to be green city, especially the
building sector,
- Inform stakeholders of the necessity of integrating solar PV and SWH systems to heat water, and
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