Israel is negotiating the construction of solar power plants in neighboring countries The development of renewable energy infrastructure will be part of the government's program to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050, Bloomberg reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Pines said that Jordan, Egypt, Greece and Cyprus. “Our neighbors have a lot of unoccupied land, and we have technology,” he explained the need for someone else's participation. All project participants will be able to use the energy from solar farms, the main issue remains the development of systems for its storage and transmission.
As part of the global struggle to save the planet, Israel is going to completely get rid of carbon emissions by 2050. According to plans, by the end of the decade, up to 30 percent of the country's electricity will be obtained from renewable sources. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a strategy to create an environmentally friendly industrial infrastructure and a favorable business environment for companies specializing in green technologies.
In the summer, the Israeli government announced a radical new program to combat plastic waste. The country's authorities have decided to double taxes on sales of goods made from hard-to-process polymers.