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Article: Cairo begins projects to reduce carbon emissions.(EGYPT)(Brief article)
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- MEED Middle East Economic Digest
- Article date:
- July 13, 2007
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The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency is forging ahead with projects to reduce carbon emissions in the country's industrial sector.
"We have at least three upcoming carbon emission-reduction [CER] projects to interest the private sector," says El-Sayed Sabry Mansour, superviser of the climate change unit at the agency.
"We have landfill sites at Ama, north of Cairo, in the Al-Sharqiyah governorate, and the Shabra landfill in the governorate of Giza."
The aim of each project is to capture and flare the methane gas produced at the landfill sites.
Environmental analysts in the region say the schemes are the result of European ...