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Business Forward is AUC's School of Business creditable destination for business knowledge, insight and analysis on Egypt and the Arab regions. It includes business and economy content, covering the latest trends and developments across industries. 

Below is a list of articles produced by Business Forward on Climate Change:

1. [Podcast] Live from COP27: Economics students reflect on loss and damage
2. Developed countries played a dirty game on climate. Will humanity pay the price?
3. How business schools can help Africa handle the impending climate crises
4. Electric vehicles: a future fraught with challenges, and clean air
5. Between climate denial and facts: is now the time to restrict fossil fuels use?
6. How can Egypt achieve its green hydrogen ambitions?
7. Egyptian businesses too can help save the planet
8. [Infographic] DCode: COP 27, It’s not just the government and big businesses
9. Net zero: How CIB Egypt is doing it
10. Our factories to be carbon neutral by 2025, says L’Oréal Egypt Managing Director
11. How Vodafone Egypt shapes its corporate responsibility to enable inclusive and sustainable digital societies
12. Closing ceremony of social responsibility campaign awards responsible business models

Alternative Policy Solutions: Founded in 2017, Alternative Policy Solutions (APS) is a non-partisan, public policy research project at the American University in Cairo (AUC). Using a highly collaborative and inclusive approach in collaboration with national stakeholders and international experts, APS develops policy solutions that realize public aspirations and support policymakers. To date, and in collaboration with over 100 international and local experts, APS is proud to have developed policy papers, produced short films, podcasts, commentaries, and hosted public events on critical policy issues such as education, transportation, urban development, healthcare, and climate change. APS  has been working on climate change and environmental sustainability issues since 2018. Below are the products the research center has produced including research and multimedia products, as well as the experts it has worked with.

Environment:

• Agriculture and Local Adaptation to Climate Change in the MENA
• Circularity: A Green Recovery Industrial Strategy for Egypt
• Egypt's Circular Economy: Challenges and Opportunities in Textiles, Plastics and Cement

Urban Development:

• Reimagining our Streets
• Re-imagining Our Streets: Inclusive Streets For All Not For a Few
• Towards Transit-Centric New Desert Communities in the Greater Cairo Region
• New Desert Communities in the Greater Cairo Region

Energy Transition:

• Financing Residential Solar Energy Usage Through Taxing Polluting Industries

Water Scarcity:

• Policy Paper: Water Management in Egypt
• Background Paper: Water Resources Management in Egypt: Assessment and Recommendations

Other Resources from APS

• The Circular Economy Model and Ways it Can be Implemented in Egypt - March 2022

Watch video by APS introducing the circular economy model, which reconciles 'developing countries’ urgent need for rapid economic growth and poverty alleviation with the need to avoid costly and irreversible environmental damage and social inequalities' (Saqr, 2021).

• Financing Solar Power in Egypt: The Polluter Pays - June 2020

Watch video by APS explaining Egypt's potential to produce solar energy and the ways of financing it for domestic uses, which would preserve the environment and provide alternatives to citizens under the high prices of electricity.

• Reimagining Our Streets - Dec 2020

Watch video by APS exploring possible solutions of redesigning Egyptian streets to be more inclusive of pedestrians, cyclists, and public transport, in an attempt to ensure smooth traffic.

GAPP Policy Brief: Issued by the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

Policy Brief Issue 18, 2022

Are Cities the Causes of or the Solutions to Climate Change? - José A. Puppim de Oliveira

Policy Brief Issue 19, 2022

The Climate-Gender Nexus: A Deep Dive into the Egyptian Women’s Agricultural Sector - Logine Ahmed and Yehia Shaheen

Policy Brief Issue 20, 2022

Shedding Light on Resilience Policy: Case Studies from Egypt, India, and the UK - Noura Wahby, Albert Sanghoon Park, and Rekha Bhangaonkar

GAPP Public Policy Hub: It is an initiative developed at the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy in October 2017. It provides the mechanism by which good ideas and meaningful solutions to Egypt’s chronic and acute policy dilemmas, can be nurtured, discussed, refined, tested and presented to policymakers. It is designed to develop a cadre of well-informed and seasoned policy developers and advocates, while simultaneously fostering and promoting creative solutions to the challenges facing Egypt today.

Policy Briefs:

• Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on Egyptian Cities: Sustainable Building and Construction as a Strategy - التخفيف من أثر تغير المناخ في المدن المصرية: استراتيجية البناء والتشييد المستدام
• From Policy to Implementation: Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture on Egypt - من السياسة إلى التنفيذ: التكيف مع آثار تغير المناخ على الزراعة في مصر
• Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change: Solutions for the Tourism Sector in Egypt - التخفيف والتكيف مع تغير المناخ: حلول لقطاع السياحة في مصر
• Monitoring and Evaluation of the Egyptian National Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts - رصد وتقييم الجهود الوطنية للتخفيف والتكيف مع آثار تغير المناخ في مصر
• Localization of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Efforts - توطين جهود التخفيف من أثر تغير المناخ والتكيف معه

Videos:

• Adaptation to the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture - التأقلم مع التغير المناخي في الزراعة
• Solutions for the Tourism Sector and Climate Change - حلول لقطاع السياحة للتغلب على التغير المناخي
• Localization of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation - توطين جهود التخفيف والتكيف مع تغير المناخ
• Monitoring and Evaluation of the Climate Change Adaptation Efforts - رصد وتقييم الجهود الوطنية التكيف مع تغير المناخ
• Sustainable Building to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change - البناء المستدام لمواجهة تغير المناخ

RADUC: The Student Caravan Podcast

RADUC Season 6: Episode 4: AUC’s Journey Towards Sustainability

Explore the past, present and future of AUC's journey to sustainability on RADUC, the student Caravan podcast, featuring Yasmin Mansour (MSc '16), sustainability director at AUC.

AUC and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Climate Urbanism in the Arab World: An LSE and AUC Academic Collaboration

Useful Links

For downloadable Climate Change logos, powerpoint templates and email signatures, click here.