Egypt to take Nile dam dispute to climate change conference
Egypt seeks to include transboundary water conflicts in international climate talks, as it has been engaged in a bitter dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Egypt seeks to include transboundary water conflicts in the UN Climate Change Conference, which will be held in November in Glasgow, Scotland.
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been locked in a bitter conflict that has spanned a decade over a dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile, the main tributary of the Nile River.
In a pre-recorded speech delivered on the sidelines of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed the need to be serious in dealing with the construction of dams on international rivers in the absence of an agreement with downstream countries on the filling and operation mechanisms, given the risks that could help exacerbate climate change, in an indirect reference to the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
Sisi said fighting the building of dams on international rivers is part of the efforts deployed to adapt to climate change.
