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Saudi Arabia will not reach zero net emissions until 2060

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Saudi Arabia announced its carbon reduction plan, but the timeline is longer than expected. According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman jointly announced that the country is expected to achieve the goal of zero net emissions in 2060. Compared with the 2050 deadline generally set by the European Union, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, Quite a lot at night.

Saudi Arabia hopes to achieve the goal of zero net emissions through a circular carbon economy, while maintaining the “security and stability” of the global oil market. The country hopes to halve its carbon emissions by 2030, but it will take more time to reach the transition to zero net emissions. Of course, Saudi Arabia still hopes to achieve the goal by 2060, and the state-owned oil production company Aramco also hopes to achieve zero net emissions by 2050, but on the whole, Saudi Arabia is not very active in reducing emissions. It was only launched in April this year. The first large-scale solar power plant was completed, and the first wind power plant was commissioned in August.

This conservative schedule is not really surprising. Although Saudi Arabia is striving to diversify its economy, oil and natural gas still accounts for 50% of the country’s GDP and 70% of exports, so Saudi Arabia does not have much. Motivation to reduce emissions. However, the global transportation vehicles are moving in the direction of electrification, and perhaps the general environment does not leave much time for Saudi Arabia to transform.

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