Laila Iskander

Laila Iskander

Laila Rashed Iskander Kamel is an Egyptian social entrepreneur and politician. She is formerly Egypt's Minister of State for Environment Affairs in the interim government of Prime Minister Hazem El Beblawi.

Quotes

• In parallel, we have been taking steps to expand our use of modern methods of irrigation to maximise our efficient use of water.
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• We are really working hard to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and we are also working on improving the efficiency of our energy usage.
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• This is what we call the circular economy, in the sense that we turn organic waste into natural fertilisers and recycle all solid waste.
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• We have also been well aware of the possibly devastating impacts of increased levels of seawater leakage onto agricultural land and have been adopting measures to stop this because we cannot afford to compromise our agricultural land. Maintaining agricultural land is part of the global work to reduce global warming.
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