Their meeting focused on enhancing bilateral cooperation in adaptation projects and linking climate change, biodiversity, land use, and local societies. She suggested involving the private sector in an adaptation project related to land-use management that supports small farmers and housewives while reducing emissions from the agricultural sector. Fouad also noted that Egypt is leading the world in linking climate and biodiversity. Additionally, Egypt and Canada are jointly leading negotiations for the global framework for biodiversity at the COP15 Conference on Biological Diversity. Fouad emphasised that Egypt and the FAO can provide the framework with a great opportunity to formulate an implementation procedure through a project that links climate change, biodiversity, land use, and local communities.
