My 2002 proposal at https://www.ecoseeds.com/cool.html about taking care of Global Warming by replanting desert areas to increase rainfall, was adopted by the Saudi Government in August, 2010, and 200 million acres were set aside as Ecological Restoration Preserves. Story at https://www.ecoseeds.com/Saudi-note-final.pdf

Last year the "Saudi Green Initiative" got started to begin the planting of 10 billion trees, and today that Initiative was broadened and renamed at COP27 as the "Middle East Green Initiative".

Joining this morning and speaking at the opening session were Kuwait, China, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Morocco, etc.

Since you are in Pakistan, and your country has joined, maybe there could be some work to replant the Thal desert.

By putting a native cover back on the land and selling the carbon credits produced by the plants sequestering soil carbon, could allow the oil companies to sell Carbon Neutral oil, could make the people grazing that marginal area 10-20X their annual income per hectare.

That is what Occidental Petroleum did last year, they sold two million barrels of Carbon Neutral oil to India, after they bought carbon offsets to cancel out the carbon in the soil.

The opening of the Middle East Green Initiative today, used a similar set of two pictures from Saudi Arabia, as I have posted here from Oman. Have vegetation and you have rainfall. Little or no vegetation and little or no rainfall.

Use GIS techniques with some suitable indecies such as NDVI.

Yesterday at CO27, the Saudis expanded their vision to include 24 countries and renamed the project to be the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) to combat desertification. Last week it was the Saudis proposed planting 10 BILLION trees, today it is 50 BILLION across the whole region.

Spearheading regional afforestation One of the goals of MGI is to plant 50 billion trees across the region. The Kingdom is spearheading regional cooperation to achieve the target, with the initial governance framework agreed by founding member countries during a ministerial meeting in Riyadh in October 2022.  The ambitious afforestation project will rehabilitate 200 million hectares of degraded land, helping reduce emissions by 2.5% of current global levels. Planting 50 billion trees will also combat desertification, reduce dust storms and protect against the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of land degradation, something that countries across West, Central and South Asia, North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa are especially vulnerable to.

Do you live in one of the 24 countries, and how will you start your own planting?

Ecological restoration have to increase the self-regulation natural abilities of ecosystems. This will have the positive effect for climate change stabilization