Climate Change Events

Faculty members from various University departments shared with the campus community their planned activities for AUC's participation in COP27 this November.

June 3-5, The TL Symposium is a student-led conference that aims to improve students' intellectual, personal, and civic skills through high-impact experiential and hands-on learning. It aims to enhance students' awareness of the social problems in the MENA region to achieve the objective of becoming civic-minded and gender-conscious leaders who can advocate for evidence-based public policy reforms.

May 26-28, Along the same lines related to climate change and proactive, innovative actions to support incorporating sustainability, the first-of-its-kind Net Zero International Conference brought together education institutes, government representatives, the private sector, financial institutes, and civil society to explore opportunities and debate challenges and transfer knowledge to help pave the way towards a Net Zero future. 

May 2 - 3, The School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (GAPP) held the Urban Climate hybrid symposium titled Cities and Climate Change in Developing Countries.

March 12 - 16, This was an experiential artwork to inform people of the possible futures we face as humans if we do – or don't – change our attitudes towards the environment. 

March 13-15, In response to worldwide climate change challenges and the active role academic and research institutions must play in understanding and addressing them, this session will be held to present the research conducted by faculty members and/or presented at COP27.

March 7-14, The Earth Turns a climate-inspired performance developed by The American University in Cairo in the lead-up to the COP27 Climate Conference. The Earth Turns aims to draw attention to the human stories behind climate change and the health of our planet and to connect an emotional response to an intellectual understanding of the looming environmental crisis.

March 12, In this talk, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Ministry of Environment of Egypt, discussed Egypt and climate change post-COP27.

March 4, The SHE GREENS 23 event celebrated the outstanding achievements of female business owners by showcasing their products and services. The event included exciting panel discussions on green business and digital inclusion and interviews with top-notch experts in the field. The event honored 100 female participants for successfully completing the Management and Entrepreneurship program "She Can" sponsored by Kuwait Energy Egypt and Deutsche bank.

January 17, This discussion highlighted the importance of Mangroves in Egypt to increase communities' resilience to climate change and the keys to Mangrove rehabilitation projects' success and sustainability, as well as identify the main barriers to designing and implementing these projects.

January 11, The AUC School of Business hosted the first Annual General Meeting of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (UNPRME) Chapter Africa at the AUC New Cairo. They held two sessions. Session 2 was under the name "Implications of COP27 on Responsible Management Education in Africa".

December 12, This discussion explored the main climate gains made through COP27 and ways of translating them into just climate action.

November 23, Tina Jaskolski, adjunct faculty at AUC, held this intriguing as she examined COP27’s ripple effect on gender-based topics. This session is the third of Gender Wednesdays, a series that mainstreams gender and build a culture of inclusiveness at AUC and beyond. Gender Wednesdays sessions are brought to you by Tomorrow's Leaders Gender Scholars (TLS) Program.

November 22, The Caravan held a Q&A session titled The Use of Technology in Dealing with Climate Change, featuring Rasha Allam, associate professor and associate chair at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication AUC and Mohamed Kholief, Innovation and Digital Transformation Consultant, Board member at CIT and the founder of IKD.

November 21, Carmela Cucuzzella, professor at the design and computation arts department, Concordia University delivered a public lecture where she met with faculty, students and staff and contributed to a series of discussions and studio sessions at the architecture department.

November 8, A documentary about the culture of glass making, The Lost Legacy of Bida Bikini explores the ancient technique of glass making by the Masagá community of glassmakers in Nigeria. Lesley Lababidi's documentary, shown at COP26 in Glasgow, looks at a group of glassmakers who migrated from Egypt into sub-Saharan Africa over 200 years ago.

November 7, The roundtable aimed to develop an Africa-tailored framework of action for African business schools to work together collaboratively (in coordination with the private sector and civil society) that matches their needs and adapts to the continent's realities.

October 19, Arndt Pechstein provided answers on how we can create a future-forward environment that encourages experimentation and meets the challenges of tomorrow today. He also introduced success patterns enabling educators to adapt to a VUCA world, namely pursuing shared goals, people empowerment, and effective collaboration, thus creating a future we want to live in.

September 27, MENA agricultural sectors are working hard and struggling to adapt to the intensity of climate change. Farmers are forced to reduce the negative impact of climate change with limited government support, while finding new opportunities to maintain their livelihoods. Alternative Policy Solutions (APS) at AUC and the Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD), University of Gothenburg, recently held a Policy Roundtable that brought together experts to discuss the various ways climate change is affecting everyday life and livelihoods.

May 2022, the Innovation Hub and New Silk Roads convened two roundtables to begin shaping the Futures Lab theme and exploring different conceptions of an Egypt green transition beyond just carbon neutral. The roundtables have been carried out with a group of thought leaders from diverse backgrounds to begin shaping the Futures Lab themes.

November 2021, Mark Smith, Director General of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), delivered a public lecture on the lack of international cooperation in water management and how it affects water security and scarcity, with an emphasis on North African vulnerability.

June 2020, Lama Elhatow, IFC environmental consultant in the environmental field across the MENA region and experts discussed the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on climate change and how it could change our approach to crises in the future.

June 2020, Ahmed Zahran, CEO and Co-founder of KarmSolar, discussed energy market transition currently underway in Egypt and the conflict that may follow between various parties in the energy sector in Egypt and the region.

July 2019, Mohamed Hegazi, co-founder and director of Transport for Cairo (TfC) and applied urban data scientist and policy entrepreneur, Ahmed Ellithy, chief operations officer of Mwasalat Misr, and Samy Abuzeid, consultant to the minister of housing on roads and transportation, delivered a public lecture launching policy paper titled “Towards Transit-Centric New Desert Communities in the Greater Cairo Region”.