Saudi Arabia feels threatened by latest cuts to CO2 emissions

by Amy Judd | April 8, 2009 at 02:19 pm

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Saudia Arabia has stated that the newest measures to cut CO2 emissions, tax carbon, and explore more renewable sources of energy, is a threat to their country, and the chief climate negotiator wants other industrialized countries to help them develop these alternative energy technologies.

Interviewed at U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Mohammad Al Sabban said, “It’s a matter of survival for us, so we are among the most vulnerable of countries . . . Saudi Arabia has not done that much to diversify.”

At the Climate Talks in Copenhagen this December, Saudi Arabia wants to argue that any taxes on carbon should be on the emissions, not on the energy that is produced, as this would favour the oil industry over the coal one.
He also mentioned the development of solar power in Saudi Arabia should be a top priority.