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Ambitious Saudi Plans To Ramp Up Hajj Could Face Challenges from Climate Change

Ambitious Saudi Plans To Ramp Up Hajj Could Face Challenges from Climate Change
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Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change

Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change
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Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change

Saudi Arabia has ambitious plans to welcome millions more pilgrims to Islam's holiest sites. The increased number of pilgrims, with the associated surge in international air travel and infrastructure expansion, also raises sustainability concerns, even as the oil giant pursues the goal of getting half its energy from renewable resources by 2030. Next week, Saudi Arabia hosts the first Hajj pilgrimage without the restrictions imposed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change

hajj: Ambitious Saudi plans to ramp up Hajj could face challenges from climate change

During the rituals, pilgrims often walk for hours outside, scale a desert hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, where the prophet is said to have delivered his last sermon, and cast stones at pillars representing the devil in a desert plain. They pack into the Grand Mosque in Mecca to circumambulate the Kaaba. On top of the exertions, the Hajj population skews to the elderly, who are more vulnerable to heat.

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