Not adapting to climate change means massive failure for Egypt’s economy

Studies recently released by a team of environmental experts, and endorsed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), have shown that refusing to address the issues of climate change in Egypt within the next 10 to 25 years will incur economic losses from the Egyptian economy of up to LE180 billion.

Though the researchers included energy experts, sociologists and economists, it was initially headed by Mahmoud Medani, an Egyptian expert on climate change and agriculture. Medani was part of the IPCC team that published the Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007, which shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore in 2007.