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Middle East Green Initiative

The Middle East Green Initiative signifies Saudi Arabia’s commitment to international sustainability efforts. It will enable the region to help protect the planet by clearly defining an ambitious road map that significantly contributes to achieving global targets.

It amplifies Saudi Arabia’s coordination and knowledge transfer with regional and international partners to achieve a significant global reduction in carbon emissions and deliver the largest reforestation program in the world.

The first Middle East Green Initiative Summit was hosted by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in Riyadh on October 25, 2021. It facilitated a first-of-its-kind regional dialogue on climate. The leaders in attendance expressed their appreciation for the Kingdom’s initiatives and efforts in the field of the environment and climate change. They agreed to work together to tackle climate change and to hold the summit periodically to develop implementation plans to achieve the objectives of the Middle East Green Initiative.

Project Objectives

Reduce carbon emissions by more than 10% of current global levels through several initiatives, including reducing carbon emissions from hydrocarbon production in the region by more than 60%.

Plant 50 billion trees across the Middle East, including 10 billion in Saudi Arabia, equivalent to 5% of the global afforestation target.

Saudi Arabia has also established the Green Initiative Foundation, a non-profit organization to support and ensure the implementation of Saudi Green Initiative and the Middle East Green Initiative objectives.

Sub Projects

PROJECT01

Co-operative Platform to accelerate implementation of the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE)

PROJECT02

Regional Investment Fund for Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) technology solutions

PROJECT03

Regional Center for Carbon Extraction Use and Storage

PROJECT04

Regional Center for Sustainable Development of Fisheries

PROJECT05

Regional Hub for Climate Change

PROJECT06

Regional Center for Early Storm Warning

PROJECT07

Regional Cloud Seeding Program that aims to increase rainfall 10-20% from the current baseline

PROJECT08

Regional Initiative for Clean Fuel Solutions for cooking to provide clean food solutions to more than 750 million people worldwide

Middle East Green Initiative in Numbers

Approx. SAR39B

Will be invested in the initiative for clean fuel solutions and in the regional CCE technology solutions fund.

Approx.15%

Saudi Arabia's contribution of this investment.