Isabel Bottoms works on environmental justice in Egypt. She is the coordinator of a project researching a socially just and zero-carbon development scenario for Egypt. She is Welsh, and studied law in the UK before moving to Cairo.
Amid the campaigning in the run-up to the referendum, the content of the draft constitution has mostly gone unnoticed. People are caught up in “Sisi mania,” or boycotting the vote…
«Egypt just hosted the sixth African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). The theme this year was: "Agenda 2030 and Paris Agreement: From policy to implementation in Africa,"…»
«Since the Cabinet’s decision to allow the use of coal under current regulations, there has not been much clarity in the public sphere as to how…»
«Along the Rosetta branch of the Nile, Kafr al-Sheikh recently suffered a “mass fish die-off." Given the almost annual regularity of such die-offs it was surprising to see a…»
«Amidst the fragmented politics of the last six months, one of the most pressing questions has been how Egypt would meet its energy demands from 2014…»
The Cairo Administrative Court heard a session on Saturday in a case levied against several state bodies for allowing coal imports into…
