{"id":444835,"date":"2021-10-25T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=444835"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T04:30:54","slug":"saudi-arabia-pledges-2060-target-of-net-zero-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/saudi-arabia-pledges-2060-target-of-net-zero-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia pledges 2060 target of net-zero emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach \u201cnet zero\u201d greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement, made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in brief scripted remarks at the start of the kingdom\u2019s first-ever Saudi Green Initiative Forum, was timed to make a splash a little more than a week before the start of the global COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Although the kingdom will aim to reduce its emissions, Prince Mohammed said the kingdom would do so through a so-called \u201cCarbon Circular Economy\u201d approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world\u2019s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to reach \u201cnet zero\u201d greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change. The announcement, made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in brief scripted remarks at the start of the kingdom\u2019s first-ever Saudi Green Initiative Forum, was timed to make a splash a little more than a week before the start of the global COP26 climate conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland. Although the kingdom will aim to reduce its emissions, Prince Mohammed said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}