The Minister Delegate to the Minister of Economy and Finance, responsible for the Budget, Fouzi Lekjaa, and the Regional Head of the Water Sector for North Africa at the German Development Bank (KfW – Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau ), Jan Schilling, signed, Thursday in Rabat, an agreement of 100 million euros (M€) to finance the climate policy support program in Morocco.
This program aims to support measures related to Morocco’s resilience to climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Lekjaa highlighted the quality of Moroccan-German cooperation, in particular through KfW, to respond to the challenges of climate change and support the ecological transition. He also insisted on the growing importance of climate resilience in budgetary and economic logic, recalling the priority given by the Kingdom to the search for a green economy and the intensification of actions in the future.
For his part, the Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fisheries, Rural Development and Water and Forests, Ahmed El Bouari, welcomed the fruitful collaboration between Morocco and Germany, particularly in the field of agriculture. , believing that this signature reflects exemplary cooperation. For his part, the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, stressed the need to combat climate change, particularly with regard to water management, with particular emphasis on desalination. and water saving.
Morocco, he maintained, is part of the development of tomorrow’s energies which play an increasingly preponderant role. The Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rabat, Robert Dölger, noted that the signing of this convention is intended to be a strong symbol of exemplary cooperation, marked by mutual trust and fruitful collaboration on a common agenda aimed at meeting major challenges. In this wake, he noted the urgency of acting immediately on the issues of climate change, given that the climate issue constitutes a strategic priority for the future.
Regarding the director of the KfW office in Morocco, Janne Rajpar, she said that the fight against climate change constitutes a central and emblematic pillar of cooperation with Morocco. At the end of this ceremony, which was also attended by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Zakaria Hachlaf, MM. Lekjaa and Dölger welcomed the level of partnership ties between Morocco and Germany, while affirming their desire to work to strengthen them.
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