The Saudi Green Initiative is an ambitious national initiative launched by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia aimed at combating climate change, enhancing the quality of life, and protecting the planet for future generations.
The Saudi Green Initiative was announced by the Crown Prince and Prime Minister, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, on March 27, 2021.
The initiative aims to mobilize the efforts of all stakeholders in society to achieve three main objectives: reducing emissions, afforestation, and protecting land and nature. There are over sixty initiatives being implemented to contribute to achieving the goals of the Saudi Green Initiative, all of which represent significant investments in the field of green economy.
The Saudi Green Initiative focuses on afforestation in various provinces of the Kingdom to increase vegetation cover, rely on clean energy, preserve the climate, environment, terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and enhance the quality of life. The initiative aims to reduce carbon emissions by more than 278 million t annually by 2030.
The Saudi Green Initiative includes several ambitious initiatives, including planting ten billion trees within the Kingdom over the coming decades. This is equivalent to rehabilitating around forty million ha of degraded land, resulting in increasing the tree-covered area by twelve times the current coverage. The Kingdom's contribution represents over 4 percent of the targets of the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats, and 1 percent of the global target for planting one trillion trees.
It is also going to work on increasing the percentage of protected areas to more than 30 percent of its land area, estimated at six hundred thousand km², surpassing the current global target of protecting 17 percent of each country's land. Additionally, it includes a number of initiatives to protect marine and coastal environments.
It will also work to reduce carbon emissions by more than 4 percent of global contributions, through renewable energy projects that will provide 50 percent of electricity production within the Kingdom by 2030, and projects in the field of clean hydrocarbon technologies that will eliminate more than 130 million t of carbon emissions, in addition to increasing the waste diversion rate to landfills to 94 percent.
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