Direction of Civil Society against Climate Change after COP22

International Situation towards Climate Change

• Paris agreement on climate change.

• Delaying all decisions till 2018.

• US Position and Turmp’s deleting all the climate change references form the White House Website.

Egyptian Environmental Civil Society

• Egypt has around 90 NGOs and environmental enterprises.

• Environment represented as sub-divisions with lack of sustainability plans.

• NGOs New Law

Civil Society in COP22

• “Africa In Action Against Fossil Fuel”

• “Climate Justice March”

• “Energy Scenarios and Energy

Policies in Morocco and Egypt”

• Non- Ratification status Egypt.

Environmental Awareness

• 208761 individuals received environmental awareness in Egypt in 2014.

• Number of projects support Climate Change in 2014 is 1.

• The amount of projects that got approved to be done is 15.

• Egypt’s ranks according to the social progress index in 2016.

Project By AYB-SD Supporting Environment - 2016

YIFE (Ibatker)

Engage (Sharek)

Community Development

Recommendations

• Civil Society should be included more in the Egyptian Environmental Plan

• Paris Agreement ratification status

• More support should be provided to environmental initiatives especially in local community, schools and universities.