NIGSD organizes the 2nd webinar on climate change in cooperation with UNIDO

The National Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (NIGSD) held the second webinar in a series of meetings on climate change via video conference, in cooperation with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).


The webinar was held entitled “Empowering Youth for the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP 27: The Path to Climate Action”.
This comes within the framework of preparations for Egypt's hosting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (COP 27), to be held next November in Sharm El-Sheikh.
The second webinar, entitled "The Role of Youth in Energy to Promote Climate Action", was attended by a group of experts in the field of climate action, climate change, and the environment.


Dr. Sherifa Sherif, Executive Director of NIGSD, said that the efforts made by the institute in cooperation with development partners through the implementation of this series of seminars aim to enhance awareness among young people about climate-related matters.
During the symposium, Helen Watts, Director of Global Partnerships and Director of Development for the World Energy Fund for Youth, expressed the importance of the global trend to reduce the gap in access to clean energy sources and to speed the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.
 Watts stressed the necessity of empowering youth to achieve sustainable development goals and the participation of communities in implementing sustainability mechanisms on the ground.

The symposium addressed key areas relevant to climate action, such as climate agreements, climate change mitigation and adaptation, climate justice, and the role of innovation and entrepreneurship.
During the symposium, topics of how to use energy and use clean energy, the role of sustainable energy in the Paris Agreement, and the processes of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in general, were discussed.

 The importance of the role of women and youth in global climate policy in influencing society and urging a change in climate behavior, fiscal policy options, and available climate alternatives to reduce fossil fuel subsidies and work to stimulate the renewable energy industry were also discussed.