Climate ambassadors... Future cadres to spread environmental awareness

As part of the preparations for holding the climate conference in Sharm El Sheikh, the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Research at Ain Shams University, under the auspices of Dr. Noha Samir Donia, Dean of the Faculty, contributes to putting forward scientific plans to spread environmental awareness through research and scientific courses.

Dr. Noha Samir Donia, Dean of the Faculty, explains in this context that the Faculty contributed to preparing cadres of young climate ambassadors, and more than 5,000 young people were graduated for the possibility of their participation in the youth conference that precedes the “COP27” climate conference, in order to present their experiences and expertise and environmental problems and how to find Solutions for it, an initiative carried out in cooperation with the British Council in Cairo, and they are cadres who can voluntarily participate in the upcoming climate conference, and 100 children were trained in cooperation with the Academy of Scientific Research from the age of 8 to 14 years, to introduce them to the issue of climate change in a simplified manner and with the aim of preserving the environment. She points out that the Faculty, in cooperation with the Ministry of Youth, launched the initiative of the Egyptian and African Climate Ambassadors, where 100 young people representing 20 African countries were trained. With the Ministry of Aviation to conduct collection and separation of waste from Sharm El-Sheikh Airport, with the aim of converting it to a green airport, as well as reusing gray wastewater to irrigate green plants at the airport after carrying out treatment operations.

She added that there is a partnership with the Ministry of Youth, where the lighting inside youth hostels was converted using solar energy and kitchen waste was used in the production of biogas, and finally an educational platform on climate change was established in partnership with the Ministry of Communications, which is a means that enables the student to move to several scientific levels, all of which are studies Online, whereby the student obtains a specialized training diploma in climate change, and the duration of study for each level is three months.

The Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Research in Ain Shams explains that her college is the first to apply the carbon footprint at the level of Egyptian universities, as the fingerprint was made for the university through an Arabic language program on smart mobile phones to measure it, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment and the carbon footprint is specific measurements of all the life activities of the individual and the extent of his consumption of natural materials such as water, energy, food and the production of solid and liquid waste, on the basis of which the carbon footprint is calculated and the carbon produced by the individual as a result of these practices, and the same rules apply to facilities, whether industrial or educational health or service, with the aim of achieving zero carbon.