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22. UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry, 4th National Communication, 45.
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26. Joanna Depledge, ‘Striving for No: Saudi Arabia in the Climate Change
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27. Ibid., 12.
28. There some discontinuities too, however, most saliently the unconditional support that Saudi Arabia currently gives to the adaptation agenda
in the UNFCCC (highly-prioritised by all developing countries), as
opposed to the 2000s when, according to Depledge, it sought to link
the response measures and adaptation agendas and make progress on the
latter conditional on progress on the former. Ibid., 16.
29. Aisha Al-Sarihi, Climate Change and Economic Diversification in Saudi
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31. IRENA, Renewable Energy Market Analysis: GCC, 58–59.
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files/countries-o-s/saudi-arabia.aspx.
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19. IRENA, Renewable Energy Market Analysis: GCC 2019, Abu Dhabi,
2019, 14.
20. UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry, United Arab Emirates 4th
National Communication Report, 2018, 22.
21. WAM, ‘Al Zeyoudi Wraps Up Successful Participation in UN Climate
Action Summit in New York’, accessed in January 2020, https://www.
wam.ae/en/details/1395302790094.
22. UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry, 4th National Communication, 45.
23. UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, ‘Strategy
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2017–2021’, accessed in July 2019,
https://www.mofaic.gov.ae/en/The-Ministry/The-Strategy.
24. @MoCCaEUAE, ‘HE Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi welcomes #ClimateAction
thought leaders & decision makers…’, tweet, 26 June 2019, https://twi
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25. UAE Ministry of Energy and Industry, 4th National Communication, 45,
47.
26. Joanna Depledge, ‘Striving for No: Saudi Arabia in the Climate Change
Regime’, Global Environmental Politics 8, No. 4, November 2008, 10.
27. Ibid., 12.
28. There some discontinuities too, however, most saliently the unconditional support that Saudi Arabia currently gives to the adaptation agenda
in the UNFCCC (highly-prioritised by all developing countries), as
opposed to the 2000s when, according to Depledge, it sought to link
the response measures and adaptation agendas and make progress on the
latter conditional on progress on the former. Ibid., 16.
29. Aisha Al-Sarihi, Climate Change and Economic Diversification in Saudi
Arabia: Integrity, Challenges and Opportunities, Policy Paper #1/2019,
Washington, DC: The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, 2019,
11–12.
30. NREP, ‘Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral
Resources Launches Round Two of Renewable Energy Programme’,
press release, 29 January 2019, https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/
press-releases/story/Saudi_Arabias_Ministry_of_Energy_Industry_and_
Mineral_Resources_launches_round_two_of_Renewable_Energy_Progra
mme-ZAWYA20190129082200/.
31. IRENA, Renewable Energy Market Analysis: GCC, 58–59.
32. Designated National Authority of Saudi Arabia, The First Biennial Update
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files/countries-o-s/saudi-arabia.aspx.