Kuwait committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050

In remarks to KUNA on the sidelines of the UN climate summit COP27 and the Middle East Green Initiative Summit currently held in Egypt, the Kuwaiti minister stated that Kuwait executed many projects to preserve the environment and reduce emissions, stressing that Kuwait sticks to all the commitments it made since the launching of the first climate conference in the Brazilian capital in 1992 all the way to the Paris conference in 2015.

He noted that the Representative of Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah took part in the two summits and addressed important messages in which he highlighted Kuwait's efforts on reducing carbon emissions.

Sheikh Salem also said that one of the UN summit's goals is to encourage world countries to announce specific dates to reach carbon neutrality, indicating that Kuwait had pledged to reach that objective by 2050.