How has the hotel industry in Egypt evolved in recent years, and what steps have you taken to keep up with changing guest expectations and preferences?
Could you give us a brief introduction of Kestrl and walk us through how you started the company?
How is Orascom Construction impacting smart mobility in Egypt? We have a long history of supporting the Ministry of Transport in its projects. We've been involved for more than 40 years. The metro programme is crucial for transportation and mass transit in megacities such as Cairo
Could you expand on your mission and the work related to sustainable development?The International Association of Public Transport (UITP) was established in 1885. The central belief is that we consider that public transport and sustainable mobility are a way to enhance the well-being of people, the quality of life in cities, and the economy of our cities.
Could you tell us more about the type of work the Supreme Council for Women (SCW) is doing for Bahrain? The Supreme Council for Women was established 21 years ago as a consultative institution to the state in all matters related to women; proposing new policies and recommendations to existing legislations and laws in support of women and their families.
Could you explain how you're training your employees toward green action?Most of our employees are from the local village where Paradis Plage is located. All these people have grown up with sustainability as their lifestyle due to the limited access to resources in the village.
Could you give us an overview of the tourism sector recovery post-COVID? Bahrain was impacted a lot by COVID. The travel industry was almost dead for a few years, even before the pandemic.
The EU-Bahrain friendship group is one of the leading groups in the European Union focusing on EU-MENA relations. Could you tell us more about the type of work you're doing?
The European University Institute is vital for the European Union to create a critical and global education. What is the University's mission in terms of SDG4: Quality Education?
The Strategic Plan 2021-2026 brings leadership, innovation, and sustainable development into the curriculums and teaching methods. How is this strategy related to SDG4 quality education?
What does sustainability mean to you, and how do you integrate it into your business transformation?
How is Tatweer Misr trying to realize the idea of "inclusive cities," and how do you plan to move forward?
Arab Misr Insurance Group “gig” has an increasing focus on social inclusiveness. Could you tell us more about the impact you are having?
Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the 5th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG5) and one of the core pillars of MENA's future vision.
It is rather impressive how Hassan Allam Holding has contributed to a wide number of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Is this part of your long term vision, or has this been happening naturally?
What is SDSN Europe working on, and how is it related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
How are you integrating gender equality in your organization?
One of CIB Egypt business pillars is "Sustainable Finance and Banking". Could you explain how you have incorporated this into your daily operations? How do you measure your positive impact?
How conscious do you think the tech industry in Belgium is about gender equality and how is Agoria supporting this goal's progress through its services?
What do you see in the following years regarding EU and Middle East & Africa relations? What will be the main challenges and opportunities?
Sustainable progress in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is the integrated economic approach by governments and companies to have a positive impact on human rights and the environment while unlocking inclusive growth. The speed of this transition is partially driven by changing standards across global supply chains and trade networks.
The main challenge will be the one that all powers in the world are facing at the moment: a global disorder where economics and trade have become instruments for competition. For me, there are two game-changers: climate change and the pandemic, which have forced the various trade-economic powers and power relations into a more self-centred development and a competition between countries different to the one that came out from the following years after WW2 with liberal trade.
The private sector, let that be in Africa or globally speaking, has the appetite and means to represent the engine of Africa’s sustainable economic development. Our aim is to create an enabling environment for scaling up renewable energy investments in Africa to accelerate a just and inclusive energy transition on the continent.
Our number one task is to help our members adopt the Sustainable finance disclosure regulation. It’s about making sure that when a fund manager discloses ESG credentials of that fund, the ESG standards involved are actually mentioned.
In the past few years, Europe experienced waves of illegal migration that created a push-back sentiment towards people from the Middle East and Africa. Moreover, the Covid crisis enhanced this mistrust sentiment within the internal borders of the E.U.
It’s surprising that you say it changes consumer behavior. The first thing that I see the companies deal with is the pandemic’s impact on their production and their employees. That is a big agenda for us. There was already the agenda of the Future of Work and the validation in the green transition. However, suddenly there are all these requirements of more flexible work arrangements, home working, social distance working, etc
The digital sector is trying to figure out and map out their larger ecosystem, questioning how robust our digital infrastructures are to respond to the shocks that come with a post-pandemic world. Last summer, we hosted a webinar that looked at digital infrastructure resilience amidst rising temperatures against the backdrop of the IPCC AR6 publication. We had speakers from the European Commission, the UK Met Office, and a Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Member Company presenting how their technologies supported natural disaster recovery efforts in lighting speed.
Brieuc: The Shift is a community of over 540 members, consisting of large and small enterprises and NGOs, public and academic institutions. The main objective is to work together towards a more sustainable society and economy. We’re working on topics including climate action, sustainable supply chains, diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and biodiversity.
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