Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, member of the Council of Ministers, and Envoy for Climate Adel Al-Jubeir led Saudi Arabia’s delegation participating in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF).
Al-Jubeir called for working seriously on a joint and effective international response, mobilizing all efforts to confront it, taking into account the special circumstances faced by the least developed countries, and supporting them to confront the negative effects of climate change policies, without impeding their sustainable development.
He also highlighted the Kingdom’s ongoing efforts in the field, along with its local, international and regional initiatives to confront climate challenges as part of its Vision 2030 objectives.
At the MEF under his presidency, US President Joe Biden urged countries to accelerate moves to cut methane emissions, adopt ambitious targets for zero-emission vehicles and work to clean up global shipping.
He also called on countries to spend a collective $90 billion to speed commercialization of clean technologies, and to develop new fertilizers that cut agricultural emissions and boost food security.
Friday’s meeting is the largest gathering of world leaders on climate change before the global climate conference known as COP27, to be held in November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The White House said Biden and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi would announce during the conference a joint effort to build climate resilience in Africa.
The countries that make up the MEF account for roughly 80 percent of global economic output and global greenhouse gas emissions. several countries were expected to join in Biden’s initiatives, while other countries would announce new 2030 emissions targets, the White House said, but did not name them.
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