Saudi Arabia advances 10 places in the Green Future Index 2022 – Saudi Gazette

Saudi Arabia advances 10 places in the Green Future Index 2022 – Saudi Gazette

RIYADH — Compared to last year, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia advanced 10 places in the Green Future Index 2022, issued by MIT Technology Review — owned by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the US university that is among the most prestigious in the world — making noticeable progress in many of the index’s pillars and indicators.

The Kingdom’s rapid progress in the Green Future Index crowns the efforts, programs, and initiatives led by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman, which most notably include the Saudi and Middle East Green Initiatives (SGI & MEGI) and the establishment of royal natural reserves to increase vegetation in the Kingdom.

With the aim of achieving several objectives of Saudi Vision 2030, SGI, MEGI, and the Circular Carbon Economy (CCE) approach that the initiatives aim to advance, are key pillars to develop the roadmap to realize the Kingdom’s ambitious climate objectives.

The inaugural SGI Forum in October 2021 saw the announcement of a first suite of more than 60 new initiatives, with over SR700 billion in investments, contributing to the development of a green economy.

The second editions of the MEGI Summit and the SGI Forum, held under the theme ‘From ambition to action’, will take place