Topic: 2025 – Impact of Climate Change on Air Quality
Country: Sierra Leone
Delegate Name: Dattasai Bobba
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia acknowledges its role as a global leader in energy production and the impact of this position on climate change and air quality. We urge other nations to consider that we are not ignoring the effects of our energy production and we in fact feel the effects of the air quality issue more than some other nations. The air quality in the Kingdom ranges from moderate to damaging for our vulnerable populations, so it cannot be said that we do not care about the issue. The health of our people is and always has been of the utmost importance, and is a part of our Vision 30 goals.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has made many efforts to combat climate change. His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, pledged in 2021 that Saudi Arabia would achieve net zero emissions by 2060. Given our experience as a global energy leader, we are well positioned to make this goal a reality. The Kingdom is also a party in the Paris Agreement, and in line with that treaty have pledged to reduce our carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 278 million tons by 2030 and plan to use the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) approach to do so. We have also pledged to invest in carbon capture technologies with the goal of capturing one and a half thousand tons of carbon every day in the future. We are also joining the Global Methane Pledge, which seeks to reduce global emissions of the gas by 30% by 2030.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also said we will plant 450 million trees in degraded lands to reduce emissions by 200 million tons. He has also stated that we will protect 30% of the Kingdom’s land, with 20% of that being done in the coming years.
All of these changes will be carried out in a way so as to preserve the Kingdom’s role as a leader in global energy production and to encourage investment in the private sectors, employment for future generations, and the stability of the Saudi economy and way of life. We wish it also to improve our relations with global powers and increase the quality of life for the world as a whole.
