The Minister Delegate 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.
On this occasion, 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.
The director of the KfW office in Morocco, Janne Rajpar, for her part, indicated that the fight against climate change constitutes a central and emblematic pillar of cooperation with Morocco.
