Through the lectures and online resources you are asked to work in groups to provide a narrative that discusses a specific environmental problem and how it impacted the world and Egypt.
You will then write your suggested solutions and recommendations in no more than 2 pages.
1- Divided into groups
Divide yourself into equal groups and gather together to discuss your ideas.
2- Choose one of the following themes to write about:
- Science-Policy interface in Egypt
- Impact on the environment in Egypt (selects real projects in Egypt).
- Identify what is being done for corporates to achieve sustainability
- Orange current green practices and how to bridge the gap needed by 2030
Theme (1)
- Select a name to your group
- Identify in your group the current environmental policies and their real implications and implementations in Egypt. You may select the telecom sector or else.
- Collect your work to add it on the course website.
Theme (2)
- Select a name to your group
- Agree on a selected development project in Egypt.
- The project you select can range to be either: physical extension, new venture, greening project, … or any specific development that you are interested in.
- Conduct a critical analysis on what are the positive and negative impacts on the environment.
- Collect your work to add it on the course website.
Theme (3)
- Select a name to your group
- Agree to a specific corporate you know about. It is preferred to be Orange Telecom, but the group is free to choose another example.
- Identity their good and bad practices and how would you rate them on a cale from 1 to 5 where:
a) very bad performance
b) bad performance
c) moderate performance
d) good performance
e) very good performance
- Collect your work, synthesize and to add it on the course website.
Theme (4)
- Select a name to your group
- Select three sustainability practices
- Explain why did you select these practices and identify their current status
- What is needed to bridge the gap and achieve the vision 2030?
- Fiance
- Policy reform
- Government attention
- Raising awareness
- …. or else?
Urban & Environmental Studies 
One of the major problems here we’re facing in OEG and maybe also in the whole world the CO2 emissions and how it impacts the environment.
Scope 3 now is the big challenge we’re dealing with and how we’ve to deal with through reducing our emissions for the network and how to reduce electricity consumption aok over the company.
As a solutions for example in our sites, we can start building and using solar panels and minimize number of generators in our sites.
Also we’ve to reduce electricity consumption in premises and shops .
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* Orange current green practices and how to bridge the gap needed by 2030:
Orange corporate is having a clear vision with defined targets and timely milestones. Orange is committed to reach the net zero carbon objective by 2040. 10 years ahead of the ITU recommendations. Orange strategy is based on gradual reduction in CO2 emissions over the time. In 2025, CO2 emissions are targeted to be reduced by 30% for scope 1 & 2 with respect to year 2015 emissions. 14% reduction in scope 3 emissions is also targeted in 2025 with respect to 2018 emissions. In 2030, 45% reductions in CO2 emissions across all scopes is targeted with respect to 2020 reference.
In order to reach these milestones, the corporate has encouraged all affiliates to reduce and if possible, abandon the use of diesel generators.
Moreover, Orange is promoting the use of renewable energy sources and allocate necessary investments to support this initiative.
Orange has also encouraged investing in massive energy monitoring techniques to collect accurate data about actual energy consumption. Having efficient energy systems as well as telecom equipment are examples of actions that achieve better energy efficiency status.
On a global sense, Orange plans and practices to reduce CO2 emissions can be rated as good practices.
On the other hand, for other sustainability domains, Orange does not have quantified goals in the areas where she operates. It differs from a country to another following the local trend.
Sure, Orange has named some initiatives for waste management and recycling activities. However, most of these targets are based on best effort basis with no strong commitment in all areas where she operates. So, it is difficult to give a rating higher that moderate in these areas.
When it comes to the ecological considerations when deploying networks, there is no clear guidelines or recommendations to be applied across all operations and they are left to the local operations choices which may be considered as a bad performance in this regard.
Generally, Orange corporate performance is being developed day after day and more attention is given to the sustainability goals.
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Theme (2): Impact on the environment in Egypt (select real projects in Egypt)
Selected development project in Egypt:
Impact of a new venture: The establishment of the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
Naturally, there’s a lot that I’m ignorant on regarding this project but I have selected it due to its significance in impact, investment, vision and cultural heritage.
The project you select can range to be either: physical extension, new venture, greening project, … or any specific development that you are interested in.
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation showcases almost 100 pieces across different civilizations that had impacted Egypt whilst the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) houses more than 30,000 pieces on Egyptian civilisation. 1992, Mubarak announced plans to build a new museum to consolidate the ancient artifacts throughout the country yet the Old Egyptian Museum will continue to stand in place after having undergone renovations.
The Old Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in Cairo had “become overly crowded with objects, was dimly lit, and susceptible to vibrations from the city’s traffic. Hence, the Ministry of Culture selected a location outside Cairo, away from congestion yet near enough to offer easy access to tourists”.
2002, the Ministry launched an international design competition and in 2003 the Dublin firm Heneghan Peng Architects was awarded the design contract, construction began in 2005 yet the GEM was launched in Feb-2023 with limited access!
All dimensions of green building and sustainable development were integrated into the GEM, including obtaining green building certificates, in accordance with its cultural heritage and soon to be one of the most important and largest museums in the world. In parallel, offloading Tahrir Square helped reduce the congestion and bad perception experienced by tourists when heading to the destination and when visiting.
Conduct a critical analysis on what are the positive and negative impacts on the environment.
Parading the royal mummies (24 pharaohs, 18 kings and four queens) through downtown Cairo in an elaborate event designed to attract tourists to the new museum, to be relocated at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.
Much as I find these events to be an expense to position and promote the country in the lead, I believe addressing the costs, the designs and engineering implementation of these events in terms of sustainable development would help to benefit from the propaganda and reach out to the public in an effort to raise awareness. Using this project as a use case one can see that a lot of elements tackling circular economy, environment and optimization could have been a key message in the extensive communication that was invested in.
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