In keeping with the tradition of organizing the largest environmental event of the Middle East and North Africa, started in 1997, the MSEA, together with its executive agency EEAA, have held the biennial international conference and trade fair on environmental management and technologies, Environment 2001, in October 2001, in Cairo.

The underlying theme of this year's event, hosted under the auspices of H.E. Mrs. Suzan Mubarak, Egypt's First Lady, was Public-Private Partnership. The primary objectives of the conference and trade fair entailed the promotion of the transfer of international know-how and experiences, the exploration of the latest technological innovations, and fostering partnerships in the fields of environmental management and technologies. The themes of Environment 2001 were:

In this respect 85 papers were presented during the conference, in addition to a number of workshops and special sessions. The workshops addressed the issues of Energy Conservation and Efficiency, Solid Waste management, Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and Cleaner Production in industry. As for the special sessions, they were concerned with a number of topics comprising the use of hydrogen as clean fuel, solid waste management, noise pollution, as well as cleaner production case studies in Egypt.