Lucien's One Big Thing is a discussion on how Saudi Arabia's Green Initiative (SGI) is performing against international evaluations on sustainability progress. One new report, published annually by MIT called The Green Future Index, says that Saudi Arabia made a leap forward against its performance last year by jumping 10 places. But, it wasn't all good news for Saudi Arabia - the Kingdom is in the second-to-last category for these rankings. Still, the progress is laudable and can already be seen on the ground in Saudi Arabia. So far, Saudi Arabia has planted 18 million trees within the Kingdom and of those 13 million are mangroves.
