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Saudi Arabia is rapidly emerging as one of the Middle East’s most ambitious hubs for renewable energy, climate technology, water innovation, and sustainable infrastructure. As part of Vision 2030, the Kingdom is investing billions into clean energy transition projects including solar power, green hydrogen, wind energy, desalination efficiency, circular economy solutions, and carbon management technologies.

Trojena, neom, artificial lake, saudi arabia
Trojena, a ski resort by Zaha Hadid in the desert

Green Prophet’s coverage of Saudi Arabia explores the environmental, ecological, and technological transformation underway across the Kingdom. From NEOM’s futuristic sustainable city plans, Trojena, and The Line’s urban experiment, to desert agriculture innovation, brine management in desalination plants, methane reduction strategies, and Red Sea coral reef conservation, Saudi Arabia represents both opportunity and scrutiny in the global climate conversation.

What are AWG air-water generators, and why they aren’t a golden-bullet solution (yet)

Tech Karin Kloosterman -
Atmospheric water generators (AWGs) sound like magic: machines that can pull drinking water out of air. The idea is mentioned in the Bible, where the elders would pray for water collected as dew on plants and the catch on turning this into a machine is in the physics. To turn invisible vapor into liquid, you must remove heat, especially the latent heat of condensation.

Jordan’s $6 Billion Aqaba–Amman Desalination Project from the Red Sea Moves Forward

Water Karin Kloosterman -
In 2025, the Jordanian government signed agreements with a consortium led by Meridiam and SUEZ, alongside VINCI Construction and Orascom Construction. Under a 30-year concession agreement, the consortium will design, build, finance, operate, and maintain the system before transferring it back to the Jordanian government. The total investment is estimated at approximately $6 billion USD.

Saudi Arabia cancels the Asian games at Neom’s Trojena

Architecture Karin Kloosterman -
Neom, a bombastic collection of futuristic cities and resorts, has flopped as Saudi oil prices roll back reality. The Saudi plan of hosting the 2029 Asian games to be held at Trojena, a ski report in the desert, has been cancelled. 

Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

Energy Karin Kloosterman -
An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

Peace Karin Kloosterman -
For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.

Australian camels fly on a plane to Saudi Arabia

Animals Green Prophet -
Australia has the largest population of feral camels in the world. Some get repatriated to Saudi Arabia.

Seaweed fashion brands can source from Saudi Arabian sea

Fashion Karin Kloosterman -
From Red Sea seaweed to runway-ready fabric, Saudi Arabia is quietly reshaping fashion’s material future. KAUST scientists, designers, and textile innovators are proving that sustainability can begin in local ecosystems. As seaweed becomes wearable, fashion is learning to grow not from fields — but from tides.

The Line’s 15 minute city failure and the limits of green futurism

Architecture Karin Kloosterman -
The failure of The Line is not a failure of imagination. It is a failure of restraint by western architects and planners who go along with the charade. Who is holding these firms accountable? This is actually a reasonable kind of project for the UN to take on and challenge. 

Musk’s Saudi Mega-Data Center Signals a Desert Arms Race for AI

Economy Green Prophet -
For now, Musk’s partnership signals a deepening alignment between Silicon Valley and Riyadh — and a new chapter in the Middle East’s data-powered future. The satellites and robots may come later. The energy footprint, however, is already here.

Oil is building our green future, and ACWA is showing the world how with $10 billion in investments

Business Karin Kloosterman -
Saudi Arabia is selling the sickness and the cure.

Green finance in Saudi Arabia, can “Davos in the Desert” change the planet?

Agriculture Green Prophet -
As world leaders and billionaires descend on Riyadh for this year’s Future Investment Initiative — better known as “Davos in the Desert” — we wonder where the planet fairs in all this political business talk. Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan has turned the kingdom into an unlikely global stage for innovation and investment, drawing over 20 heads of state, 50 ministers, and hundreds of financiers, tech executives, and policy shapers.

Saudi Arabia’s $650M bet on desalination

Water Karin Kloosterman -
No Saudi water story is complete without NEOM, the high-profile giga-project selling a future of “100% renewable desalination,” circular brine chemistry, and hydrogen-powered industry. Ambition is welcome—Saudi needs moonshots to decouple water from oil.

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