At Fifth International Forum, Al-Azhar calls for framework to face climate change impacts

CAIRO – 2 October 2022: Under the patronage of Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb, Al-Azhar University held the Fifth International Forum under the title “The Role of Civil Society towards Climate Change” at Al-Azhar Conference Center in Nasr City, on Sunday.

The forum wasl held in cooperation with the Ministry of Social Solidarity, in the presence of Minister of Social Solidarity  Nevin al-Kabbaj and President of Al-Azhar University Salama Daoud.

The forum calls for formulating new programs that aim at protecting the national security of civil society to face climate change. It also targets setting a roadmap that analyzes the contemporary gap between civil society policies and a methodology of confronting climate change.

Vice President of Al-Azhar University Mahmoud Seddik stressed that Al-Azhar University calls on all parties and stakeholders to work together and interact to formulate policies and establish mechanisms that contribute to raising societal awareness of environmental issues, and to deal with these changes according to a disciplined environmental pattern that limits their dangers and reduces their effects.

Seddik praised the state’s efforts to hold a successful COP27 conference in a way that befits Egypt’s status and its history. He stressed the necessity of issuing a detailed scientific plan of action with a positive impact on climate change.

In his speech at the forum, Cameroonian Ambassador Mohammadou Labarang, the dean of African Diplomats in Egypt, said that climate change has become a real danger that represents a clear threat to the future of humanity, noting that the Al-Azhar University forum on climate change is being held at the right time to emphasize the need for serious and resolute action to combat this danger.

The ambassador confirmed that the responsibility of finding radical solutions to the impacts of climate change falls on the developed countries that cause the largest amount of gas emissions. He called on these countries to provide support to developing countries, to confront the risks of climate change.