RIYADH — The "Green Youth" initiative workshop, titled "Pillar of the Saudi Green Initiative", was held Sunday in the participation of several experts specialized in the field of environment and climate change, discussing climate change and the negative effects resulting from carbon emissions that undermine the environmental life and living organisms.

The first session of the workshop discussion focused on increasing vegetation cover and rehabilitating degraded lands, highlighting the Kingdom's quest to plant 10 billion trees in the next few years.

Meanwhile, the second session focused on the Kingdom’s experience concerning the protection, improvement and management of marine areas, especially the efforts of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in establishing a natural reservation with an area of 152 hectares dedicated to research, a step that confirms the keenness to preserve and scientifically protect the environment and ensures sustainability.

The workshop also tackled reducing carbon emissions through the use of alternative and renewable energy and blue nitrogen and the best means to benefit from it soon due to its negative impact on nature and the climate, in particular, the economic recycling of carbon, the improvement, and protection of living creatures and natural areas.

The three aforementioned workshops were held as part of the “Saudi Initiative" forum, which was launched Saturday, with the participation of CEO Renat Heuberger South Pole Group, Founder and CEO of the Trillion Tree Fund Leena Al Olaimy, Director of Sanabel Foundation for Landscaping and Engineering, and President of the Arab Society for Conservation of Nature Engineer Razan Zuaiter, and CEO of the World Ocean Council Paul Holthus, among other dignitaries. — SPA