Egypt, Azerbaijan discuss bilateral cooperation, COP27 agenda

Egypt, Azerbaijan discuss bilateral cooperation, COP27 agenda

Egypt’s Minister of Environment and Ministerial Coordinator and Envoy of COP27, Yasmine Fouad, met with Mukhtar Babayev, the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan, to discuss several points of bilateral consensus on the issues of climate change and ways to advance them during the conferences.

The two ministers discussed the most important problems of water management and water scarcity and the impact of climate change on them and their impact on people around the world, as the world is currently facing a water security crisis that affects the lives of billions of people, and expectations of increasing its severity with increasing demand and diminishing resources.

They also discussed the increasing impacts of floods and droughts which call for greater international cooperation, where Fouad explained that COP27 presents the Water Adaptation and Resilience Initiative, which aims to reduce water losses worldwide, improve water supply, and support the implementation of policies and methods in support of action to save water.

She further pointed to the importance of the conference in linking water and climate action in order to achieve the 2030 agenda, especially Goal 6 of the Sustainable Development Goals, adding that Egypt has begun to turn to solutions such as the desalination