Experts explore role of carbon markets in Mena decarbonisation

  • Date: 24-May-2023
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Bahrain
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Experts explore role of carbon markets in Mena decarbonisation

Sustainability Forum Middle East (SFME) hosted a high-level gathering of senior climate, finance and sustainability leaders in Bahrain to explore the role of “Carbon Markets - Accelerating and Funding the Road to Net-Zero”.

The event was held under the patronage of Bahrain’s Supreme Council for Environment (SCE).

The council highlighted the importance of partnerships between the public and private sectors to achieve sustainable development goals and reach net-zero.

The SCE praised the national role of the private sector in Bahrain and its close cooperation with various public and private trade and industry sectors and other fields related to climate change and clean energy transformation.

The SCE also applauded the success achieved by the first session of the roundtable in the Sustainability Forum Middle East, wishing all participants success in achieving the targeted objectives and lauding the speakers’ efforts to find innovative solutions and ambitious sustainable economic visions that contribute to achieving sustainable development goals and enhancing the national efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2060.

More than 100 leaders from the public and private sector came together to take an in-depth look at the growth and practical workings of carbon markets globally and in the region and assess the benefits they can provide as another