Laila Iskander

“It was impossible to underestimate the kind of concerns that Egypt has and that it is very important to stress the need for international support to face up to these as part of a wider commitment to working with the rest of the international community on reducing currently dangerous levels of global warming.”

“During the past six, and since the country signed the Paris Agreement that came out of the 2015 Paris Conference on Climate Change, Egypt has been fully invested in measures to protect its shores from rising sea levels.”

“Challenge the definition of entrepreneurship and look at the well being of people around us. Social entrepreneurship is a transition phase. Examine the whole concept of business and profit: if it's not social, then it's bad business.”

“We have also been well aware of the possibly devastating impacts of increased levels of seawater leakage onto agricultural land and have been adopting measures to stop this because we cannot afford to compromise our agricultural land. Maintaining agricultural land is part of the global work to reduce global warming.”

“This is what we call the circular economy, in the sense that we turn organic waste into natural fertilisers and recycle all solid waste.”

“We are really working hard to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and we are also working on improving the efficiency of our energy usage.”

“In parallel, we have been taking steps to expand our use of modern methods of irrigation to maximise our efficient use of water.”