As part of the world’s celebration of the International Volunteer Day, the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research at Ain Shams University will hold on Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 10 am, a ceremony honoring climate action volunteers, who passed the training program for the qualification of climate ambassadors, under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Hisham Temraz, Vice President of Community and Environmental Affairs, and Prof. Dr. Ayman Saleh, Vice President of Graduate Studies and Research Affairs, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Noha Samir Donia, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Environmental Research, in cooperation with the Voluntary Team Foundation for Humanitarian Action, as part of the activities of the Million Youth Volunteer Initiative for Climate Adaptation, which the faculty participated in establishing.

The program is the leading training program in Africa and the Middle East for carbon and climate literacy.

This honor comes in line with the university’s role in taking proactive measures to enhance capacity building and climate adaptation in individual businesses so as to reduce the carbon footprint of individuals, and raise awareness of facing climate changes by controlling daily habits that cause the release of greenhouse gases such as: the use of environmentally friendly products and methods of eating, cooking, cycling, eating less meat and using less chemicals, as the Million Youth Volunteer Climate Adaptation Initiative plays an active role in mobilizing youth energies towards climate adaptation for individual activities.

Ain Shams University is preparing volunteer climate leaders in preparation for Egypt’s organization of the 27th Conference of Parties in Sharm El-Sheikh on November 7, 2022. Ain Shams University is the first university to teach environmental sciences in the entire region and has the scientific and academic staff that qualifies the team of climate action volunteers to be inspiring and influential in mobilizing the energies of young people towards climate adaptation and contributing to a team of climate volunteers in any organizing work for any global event.