His visit also aims to bolster ties between the two countries after the UAE, a former British protectorate, marked 50 years since its founding in 1971.
Discarded plastics in the UAE coasts are choking and killing sea life, birds and most commonly turtles.
A planned coal-fired power plant in Dubai instead will be converted to use natural gas amid the UAEs' wider pledge to have net-zero carbon emissions by 2050
WHO announced that the vast amount of waste produced in tackling the coronavirus pandemic posed a threat to human and environmental health.
The minister's remarks follow the publication of a recent study by the Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Life and Fisheries, which said Egypt's fish production had fallen sharply due to pollution, overfishing and habitat degradation.
Nearby farms in the province of Noord Holland will be sealed off while tests for the H5N1 virus are conducted and to establish whether it has spread, the agricultural ministry said.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service found that last year was the fifth warmest on record globally, marginally warmer than 2015 and 2018.
Numerous countries in the Gulf have warned of intense incoming rains, which could lead to flooding.
A Persian leopard has been caught by shepherds in northern Iraq, and had a hind leg amputated after it was caught in a trap.
Desmond Tutu, an anti-racist icon who opposed South African and Israeli apartheid, was also a staunch activist against climate change.