据路透社10月30日报道称，沙特阿拉伯能源部长周三表示，作为G20成员国，沙特计划启动一项碳交易计划，以实现能源供应多样化并减少碳排放。
随着各国政府努力实现减少温室气体排放的目标，以应对全球变暖，碳交易计划正在全球范围内兴起。
随着沙特阿拉伯准备在2020年主办G20峰会，以及国有石油公司沙特阿美计划在环保运动和从化石燃料中转型的浪潮中上市，气候变化的影响已排在沙特阿拉伯需要优先处理的事项首位。
“我们很快会提出一个关于碳交易的建议，这将是一个公平的碳交易系统……而且我认为它会奏效，” 阿卜杜勒阿齐兹·本·萨勒曼亲王在利雅得举行的未来投资倡议会议上表示。
他说，沙特目前经营着世界上最大的碳捕获与利用工厂，每年将50万吨的二氧化碳转化为肥料和甲醇等产品。
他说：“我们还经营该地区最先进的二氧化碳强化采油厂之一，该厂每年捕获和储存80万吨二氧化碳。”他补充说，政府计划在沙特各地部署更多的碳捕获、利用和储存基础设施。
阿卜杜勒阿齐兹亲王说，沙特阿拉伯的能源价格改革和能效计划将帮助该国到2030年将需求每天减少多达200万桶油当量。
徐蕾 摘译自 路透社
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Saudi Arabia plans to launch carbon trading scheme
Saudi Arabia plans to launch a carbon trading scheme as the G20 member aims to diversify its energy supplies and reduce carbon emissions, the energy minister of the world’s top oil producer said on Wednesday.
Carbon trading schemes are emerging all over the world as governments try to meet targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the fight against global warming.
The impact of climate change has shot up the list of Saudi Arabia’s priorities as the kingdom gets ready to host the Group of 20 (G20) leading economies in 2020 and as state oil company Aramco plans to go public amid a rising tide of environmental activism and a shift away from fossil fuels.
“We will come soon with a suggestion on carbon trading that would be a fair carbon trading system ... And I think it will work,” Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said at the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh.
He said the kingdom currently operates the largest carbon capture and utilization plant in the world, turning half a million tons of CO2 annually into products such as fertilizers and methanol.
“We also operate one of the regions most advanced CO2 enhanced oil recovery plants that captures and stores 800,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually,” he said, adding Riyadh planned to deploy more carbon capture, utilization and storage infrastructure around the kingdom.
Saudi Arabia’s energy price reforms and efficiency programme will help reduce local demand by as much as two million barrels per day of oil equivalent by 2030 compared with previous projections, Prince Abdulaziz said.
