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Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Push

Building Resilience Beyond 2030

This comprehensive whitepaper, published jointly by the Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness and the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing, presents a long-term, country-level strategy for sustainability-focused investment and policy change in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia beyond the ambitious plans of the Vision 2030. Authored by Dr. Khalid Alsweilem (Visiting Scholar at SDGC), Professor Michael Lepech (Faculty Director of SDGC), Dr. Ashby Monk (Executive Director of SLTI), and Dr. Malan Reitveld (Advisory Boary Member of SLTI), this study was conducted in cooperation with the Decision Support Center (DSC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, an internal research center dedicated to supporting policy decisions in the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Push (6.46 MB)