FILE - In this June 28, 2021, record photo, Saudi Aramco engineers and journalists look astatine the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant successful Hawiyah, successful the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. One of the world's largest lipid producers, Saudi Arabia, announced connected Saturday, Oct. 23, it aims to scope nett zero greenhouse state emissions by 2060, joining much than 100 countries successful a planetary effort to effort and curb man-made clime change. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

FILE - In this June 28, 2021, record photo, Saudi Aramco engineers and journalists look astatine the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant successful Hawiyah, successful the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. One of the world's largest lipid producers, Saudi Arabia, announced connected Saturday, Oct. 23, it aims to scope nett zero greenhouse state emissions by 2060, joining much than 100 countries successful a planetary effort to effort and curb man-made clime change. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

DUBAI – One of the world's largest lipid producers, Saudi Arabia, announced Saturday it aims to scope “net zero” greenhouse state emissions by 2060, joining much than 100 countries successful a planetary effort to effort and curb man-made clime change.

The announcement was made by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman successful little scripted remarks astatine the commencement of the kingdom's first-ever Saudi Green Initiative Forum. The kingdom made the announcement a small implicit a week earlier the planetary COP26 clime league starts successful Glasgow, Scotland that volition gully heads of authorities from crossed the satellite to effort and tackle planetary warming and its challenges.

The kingdom's lipid and state exports signifier the backbone of its economy, contempt efforts to diversify distant from reliance connected fossil fuels for revenue. It has resisted efforts to curb its investments successful oil.

Although the kingdom volition purpose to trim its ain emissions, it volition proceed to aggressively pump and export fossil fuels to Asia and different regions.

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