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3. National and Regional Strategy on Climate Change Adaptation
This section focuses on the national and regional strategy on climate change adaptation, if applicable. It
includes a description of three main sections:
• The commitments in place at the national level within the international environment (UNFCCC) and
the agreements that have been signed for CC,
• The national strategy, its goals and commitments, etc., and
• The regional strategy, if applicable, based on the national one, and the specificities the region faces.
3.1. The commitments in place at the national level
The Egyptian Government responded early to climate change and signed the following environmental
agreements, namely:
• Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), 1992,
• Kyoto Protocol, 1999, and
• Paris Agreement - new global climate change agreement, December 2015.
On December 12, 2015, Paris Climate Change Agreement was approved by the 196 Parties to the United
Nations Framework Convention of the Climate Change (UNFCCC) at COP21 in Paris - France. Egypt signed the
Paris Climate Agreement on 22 nd of April 2016 in Paris signature ceremony where 175 participated but has
not yet ratified it. “We respect the experience of others, but we will do it our way. We will ask for your support,
but we will look after the well-being of the Egyptian people,” Minister of Environment declared.
On November 11, 2015 Egypt submitted its new climate action plan to the UN Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC). This Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) comes in advance of
Cop21. The Paris agreement already entered into force, empowering all countries to prevent average global
temperatures rising above 2 degrees Celsius and to reap the many opportunities that arise from a necessary
global transformation to clean and sustainable development. Egypt’s INDCs was developed in accordance
with Decisions 1/CP.19 and 1/CP.20 of the Arab Republic of Egypt The INDCs set a series of measures intended
to be applied by the country to face climate change in terms of adaptation (to climate change impacts) and
mitigation (reducing GHG emissions). It includes the following three main elements:
• National circumstances that address general economic conditions, including economic and
population growth rates, major sustainable development goals (SDGs), and political circumstances;
• National efforts implemented to combat climate change in Egypt, in terms of treating impacts in
different sectors (agriculture, water resources, coastal zones, etc.) or efforts made to reduce GHGs
emissions in different sectors (energy, transportation, industry, etc.); and
• Required implementation mechanisms to achieve the objectives of the plan (funding, capacity
building, and technology transfer) 47 .
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