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A12 SCIENCE
Tuesday 22 March 2022

Kuwait, among world’s hottest places,

lags on climate action

regulate Kuwait's emissions
get nearly all of their rev-
enue from pumping oil.
"The government has
the money, the informa-
tion and the manpower
to make a difference,"
said lawmaker Hamad al-
Matar, director of the par-
liamentary environmental
committee. "It doesn't care
about environmental is-
sues."
The country continues
to burn oil for electricity
A woman feeds stray cats at the marina in Kuwait City, Feb. 11, and ranks among the top
2022. global carbon emitters per
Associated Press capita, according to the
World Resources Institute.
By ISABEL DEBRE as the region's petrostates As asphalt melts on high-
Associated Press joined a chorus of na- ways, Kuwaitis bundle up
JAHRA, Kuwait (AP) — It tions setting goals to elimi- for bone-chilling air-condi-
was so hot in Kuwait last nate emissions at home — tioning in malls. Renewable
summer that birds dropped though not curb oil exports energy accounts for less
dead from the sky. — ahead of last fall's U.N. than 1% of demand — far
Sea horses boiled to death climate summit in Glasgow. below Kuwait's target of
in the bay. Dead clams Instead, Kuwait's prime 15% by 2030.
coated the rocks, their minister offered a years-old An hour drive outside the
shells popped open like promise to cut emissions by dingy suburbs of Jahra,
they'd been steamed. 7.4% by 2035. wind turbines and solar
Kuwait reached a scorch- "We are severely under panels rise from clouds
ing temperature of 53.2 threat," said environmental of sand — the fruit of Ku-
degrees Celsius (127.7 de- consultant Samia Alduaij. wait's energy transition
grees Fahrenheit), making "The response is so timid it ambitions.q
it among the hottest places doesn't make sense."
on earth. Racing to burnish their cli-
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