Saudi Arabia | Riyadh is green by 2030.. Details

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - Sinan Khalaf - The Green Riyadh project within Vision 2030 is one of the most important and distinguished environmental projects, as it is one of the largest ambitious afforestation projects in the world, and one of the four major Riyadh projects launched by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, may God protect him, at the initiative of the His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royal Commission for the City of Riyadh, may God protect him, in March 2019, within the framework of achieving one of the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030 “to raise the classification of the city of Riyadh among its peers in the world.” .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The afforestation program in the &quot;Green Riyadh Project&quot; covers most of the city&#39;s components and components, including: 3,330 neighborhood parks, 43 large parks, 9,000 mosques, 6,000 schools, 64 university and college facilities, 390 health facilities, and 1,670 government facilities. The afforestation program also covers 16,400 linear kilometers of streets and roads, 2,000 parking spots, 1,001 linear kilometers of “green belts” within public utility lines (electricity transmission towers and oil pipelines), 175,000 empty plots of land, and 272 km of wadis and their tributaries. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/ferfergetggetgetg.jpeg" style="width: 900px; height: 635px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The afforestation program in the &quot;Green Riyadh Project&quot; covers most of the city&#39;s components and components, including: 3,330 neighborhood parks, 43 large parks, 9,000 mosques, 6,000 schools, 64 university and college facilities, 390 health facilities, and 1,670 government facilities. The afforestation program also covers 16,400 linear kilometers of streets and roads, 2,000 parking spots, 1,001 linear kilometers of “green belts” within public utility lines (electricity transmission towers and oil pipelines), 175,000 empty plots of land, and 272 km of wadis and their tributaries.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Green Riyadh project in numbers: </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><img alt="" src="/sites/default/files/uploads-2020/wrfrerfer.PNG" style="width: 1090px; height: 410px;" /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Objectives of the Green Riyadh Project:</p><ul style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Raising the per capita green space in the city from 1.7 m to 28 m.</li><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Combating desertification and increasing the proportion of the total green spaces in the city from 1.5% to 9%, by planting more than 7.5 million trees throughout Riyadh</li></ul><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Subprojects</p><ul style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Great Parks</li><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> biology park</li><li style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> green neighborhoods</li></ul>