Latest in Tag: sustainability Highlight
Latest in Tag: sustainability

Egyptian students get acquainted with Denmark’s experience in irrigation, sustainability
Visit comes as part of Egyptian-Danish geoscience student exchange programme

Expo 2020 Pavilions Premiere to reveal sustainability pavilion ahead of October’s World Expo
Pavilions Premiere will welcome visitors from 22 January to 10 April 2021

CIB Sustainability Reporting Award recipients attend GRI Certified Training Workshop
Award launched in celebration of the bank’s five years of sustainability reporting

Egypt can return to era of good population policies: UNFPA Representative
A “doomsday scenario” is possible but not inevitable with long term thinking from the government and families

PepsiCo to renovate schools, launch 3 electricity projects worth EGP 4.9m in Sohag
Food-for-Education Project benefits 400,000 Egyptians through providing quality food for low socio-economic classes, women, and children in Egypt
GIZ allocating $50m for green building and sustainable community projects: Wehenpohl
German company launching 17 development projects in Egypt, including ones to develop informal areas in Cairo

Nile Project: Using culture to transform conflict
Through music production, educational workshops and activities promoting innovation, the project aims to contribute to finding solutions to the conflict over water resources
Arab youth environmental conference to launch in Hurghada
Reducing consumption and changing behaviours top the conference’s agenda

Reform extends environmental responsibility to design
Reform aims to use their products to protect the environment and empower local communities.

African Development Bank supports Egypt with $2m
The $2m grant will finance sustainability projects in Egypt, namely industrial waste management and SME development

Changing rural Egypt with a smelly bucket
Piles of straw, buckets of water, pitchforks of manure and more where stacked on top of each other to build a large compost heap. Galabeya’s and Uggs intermingled without prejudice in this Composting Workshop hosted by Nawaya – sowing the seed of true sustainability.
The sustainability mindset
By  Michael Spence MILAN: Markets and capitalist incentives have great strengths in promoting economic efficiency, growth, and innovation. And, as Ben Friedman of Harvard University argued persuasively in his 2006 book “The Moral Consequences of Growth”, economic growth is good for open and democratic societies. But markets and capitalist incentives have clear weaknesses in ensuring stability, …