Saudi Arabia pledges to cut its carbon emissions to zero by 2060

While China and Russia have plans to reach net zero by 2060, other countries - including the US, the UK and Saudi Arabia’s neighbour the United Arab Emirates, another major oil producer, aim to achieve the goal 10 years earlier.

 

Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia said it would reduce carbon emissions by shifting to renewable energy and planting billions of trees.

 

Richard Black, director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), a UK-based think tank, described Saudi Arabia’s net-zero target as “very welcome” but said the kingdom needed to publish a plan of how it would be achieved.