Climate advisory · Dubai

Decarbonisation advice for transport and industry

Icarus Consulting is the advisory practice of Mohamed Hegazy. It supports governments, companies and international organisations on the strategies, policies and evidence that cut emissions in the sectors hardest to abate.

Services

Advisory services

Each engagement is led by Mohamed Hegazy: as a named senior expert in a bid team, on a defined-scope assignment or on an advisory retainer. Specialist support is brought in where the work calls for it.

Decarbonisation strategy

Transition pathways, targets and implementation plans for transport and industrial sectors, grounded in current evidence on technology, cost and policy.

Bid and project support

Decarbonisation content for tenders and financing applications, and alignment with the climate requirements of lenders and clients.

Policy and market design

Advice on the standards, procurement commitments and demand signals that move low-emission technologies from first projects to commercial scale.

Evidence and progress tracking

Indicators, baselines and progress assessments that show whether a sector is on track to meet its goals, and where the largest gaps sit.

Sectors

Where the work focuses

Transport

  • Urban mobility
  • Public transport
  • Road freight
  • Aviation and shipping
  • Low-emission fuels

Electrification and industry

  • Electrification
  • Transport electrification
  • Cement and concrete
  • Steel
  • Chemicals and others

Principal

Mohamed Hegazy

Principal, Icarus Consulting

Mohamed Hegazy advises governments, companies and international organisations on the decarbonisation of transport and industry, with a focus on how sectors move from commitments to deployment.

Since 2022 he has supported the UN climate process on transport, covering aviation, shipping and land transport, and since 2026 on industry as well.

He founded Transport for Cairo in 2015 and built it from a self-funded start-up into an advisory firm that has delivered more than 80 assignments in 16 countries on public transport, data, electrification and climate policy for multilateral development banks, development agencies and national governments.

Selected experience

  • Led the largest of 30 COP30 activation groups, covering land transport and five industrial sectors, with the highest engagement rate of all 30 groups (2025).
  • Led the Egypt country analysis for a multilateral development bank study of electric mobility potential in the Middle East and North Africa (2021–2022).
  • Directed a national study of climate policy options to decarbonise transport (2024–2025).
  • Co-authored several editions of an annual intergovernmental report on progress in sector transitions, and peer reviewed a leading global assessment of climate action.
Education
MA, Governing the Large Metropolis (cum laude), Sciences Po Paris
BA, Economics (with honours), The American University in Cairo
Languages
English, Arabic and German (native); French (working)
  • 12+years advising on transport and climate policy
  • 80+advisory assignments delivered with Transport for Cairo
  • 16countries of project delivery with Transport for Cairo

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