Egypt
Status under International Climate Change Law
- UNFCCC: signature (9 June 1992) and ratification (5 Dec 1994)
- KP: signature (15 Mar 1999) and ratification (12 Jan 2005)
Quantified emission limitation or reduction commitment: NA - Vienna Convention: signature (22 Mar 1985) and ratification (9 May 1988)
- Montreal Protocol: signature (16 Sept 1987) and ratification (2 Aug 1988)
- LRTAP: NA
- Energy Charter: observer (28 Nov 2008)
- Energy Efficiency Protocol: NA
- Espoo Convention: NA
Federal Laws on Climate Change
Energy
- Resolution No. 212 allocating desert land for creation of the First Sun Thermal Station (2003) [Arabic]
Forests and Land Use
- Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (2005) [English]
- Resolution No. 749 establishing the High Ministerial Committee for the implementation of the National Plan for Water Resources and Uses (2005) [Arabic]
Environmental Impact Assessment
Other
- Law 4 for the Protection of the Environment (1994) [en, ar]
- Decree No. 338 issuing the Implementing Regulation of Environment Law No. 4 (1995) [English]
Government Documents
- First National Communication to the UNFCCC (1999) [English]
- National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy for Egypt (2009) [English]
- Second National Communication to the UNFCCC (2010) [English]
- National Environmental, Economic and Development Study (NEEDS) for Climate Change (2010) [English]
- National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction (2011) [English]
- Towards a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Water Sector in Egypt (2012) [en, ar]
- Proposed Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for the Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation in Egypt (2013) [en, ar]
Factual Matters
- United Nations Statistics Division, Environmental Statistics Snapshot (2013)
Secondary Sources
- Dalia Farouk & Lamiaa Youssef, Egypt, in CLIMATE CHANGE LIABILITY, 245-71 (Richard Lord et al. eds., Cambridge University Press 2011)
Updated as of: December 30, 2014