Egypt localizes environment-friendly transport ahead of COP27 – Egypt Today

Egypt localizes environment-friendly transport ahead of COP27 – Egypt Today

CAIRO – 18 June 2022: Egypt has developed a future strategy to introduce electric means of transport into public transport. This comes as the state is only 138 days away from hosting the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, referred to as (COP27). Egypt seeks to localize the idea of sustainable environmentally-friendly transport and to switch to the use of electric and natural gas-powered cars. Egypt’s agenda aims to reduce air pollution and climate change, in Greater Cairo, by supplying the Public Transport Authority with about 100 electric buses. It also participated in the implementation of the strategy to localize the electric car industry in Egypt, through cooperation between some ministries. Egypt applied a pioneering experiment of electric mobility at the General Authority for Passenger Transport in Alexandria, and the creation of about 15 electric buses as a public transport service. Then came the cooperation between the Ministry of Environment and the Public Transport Authority in implementing a plan to replace and renew the dilapidated old buses, exceeding 20 years, with new buses powered by natural gas. A Low Emission Zones (LEZ) system has also been established using electric vehicles in areas with sensitive, historical and heritage ecosystems. Egypt declared