On October 3, 2025, a high-level meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Arab League was held in Astana as part of the Kazakhstan Energy Week 2025. The event was held under the theme “Climate Change and Sustainable Energy”.

High-level representatives of the SCO and Arab League member states, as well as a number of SCO dialogue partners and international regional organizations, participated in the discussions.

The delegates held a comprehensive exchange of views on the challenges posed by climate change and the unplanned development of the energy sector, and put forward a number of proposals for strengthening cooperation between the SCO and Arab League member states in this area.

In his speech, SCO Deputy Secretary-General Akhmad Saidmurodzoda expressed gratitude to the Kazakh side for the initiative to hold the first-ever joint SCO-LAS event. He provided information on the current status and prospects of cooperation between the Organization’s member states in the fields of ecology and energy, in particular, on the activities of the mechanism for meetings of ministries and agencies responsible for environmental protection, as well as on the provisions of the Agreement on Cooperation in Environmental Protection, the Agreement between the Governments of the SCO Member States on Cooperation in Combating Climate Change, the Strategy for the Development of Energy Cooperation of the SCO Member States until 2030 and the Roadmap for its implementation, as well as on the progress of negotiations to establish a special working group on climate change.

The Deputy Secretary-General emphasized that the pooling of the experience and resources of the SCO and the LAS is intended to open up broad prospects for partnership in the interests of the transition to low-carbon and affordable energy.

Following the event, a Joint Statement of the SCO and the LAS on Climate Cooperation and Sustainable Energy was adopted.