Saudi Arabia to host Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum

  RIYADH — The Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources will organize on Sunday the 6th Ministerial Meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum here. Two hundred and fifty ministers, officials and experts in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development from 26 countries will attend the four-day meeting, under the aegis of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King. In addition many international organizations and regional oil companies will also be participating. The sixth Ministerial Meeting of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum will provide policy and technical direction to the organization. The Ministerial Meeting is the highest decision-making body of the forum, which is an international climate change initiative focused on developing cost-effective technologies for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) for its transport and long-term safe storage. The initiative focuses on breaking down technical, economic and environmental barriers to improving CO2 capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies. It further promotes awareness and champions legal, regulatory, financial and institutional environments conducive to such technologies. — SPA