Published: December 18th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

As the world’s second-largest oil producer, Saudi Arabia often causes conflicts in climate negotiations. Extremely diplomatic in its approach, in climate negotiations, Saudi Arabia uses complicated and less known rules of the process, raising objections on seemingly trivial issues and rules of procedure, and presenting proposals they know will not be acceptable to slow down and eventually block negotiations. Moves that frustrate other countries, developed and developing.