A few weeks ahead of the global climate conference COP21 in Paris, experts in climate finance and climate negotiations, civil society organizations, representatives of the Egyptian government and academia convened at the Conrad Hotel on October 27th to discuss mechanisms for funding climate-relevant projects in Egypt.

The “Climate Finance workshop”, jointly organized by the European Union Delegation to Egypt, the Cairo Climate Talks and the French Cultural Institute was opened by the ambassadors of the European Union, Germany and France, and by Egypt’s Minister of Environment, Khaled Fahmy, who agreed that a comprehensive agreement has to be reached in Paris and that climate finance needs to play a pivotal role in this process.