{"id":7607,"date":"2022-11-08T06:41:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:15:41","slug":"middle-east-green-initiative-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/middle-east-green-initiative-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle East Green Initiative Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Middle East Green Initiative Summit:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Middle East Green Initiative aims to\u00a0<strong>reduce carbon emissions from regional hydrocarbon production by more than 60%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also plans to\u00a0<strong>plant 50 billion trees across the Middle East and restore an area equivalent to 200 million hectares of degraded land<\/strong>. The initiative will help\u00a0<strong>reduce global carbon levels by 2.5%.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The first Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) Summit was hosted by HRH Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister in Riyadh on 25 October 2021.<\/li>\n<li>It facilitated a\u00a0<strong>first-of-its-kind regional dialogue on climate,<\/strong>\u00a0with leaders in attendance from 28 countries agreeing to work together to tackle climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia plans to rely on renewables for 50% of its electricity generation by 2030, , removing 44 million tonnes of carbon emissions by 2035.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-arabia-commits-2-5-billion-to-middle-east-green-initiative-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman\/articleshow\/95363856.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia launched the Middle East Green Initiative to help enable region to increase climate action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}