AlFadley has held his ministerial post since 2015, a year before the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Environment, Water, and Agriculture. By March 2026, Saudi Arabia had restored one million hectares of degraded land and planted more than 159 million trees under the Saudi Green Initiative. In June 2026, it reported that non-renewable groundwater consumption fell from approximately 21 billion cubic meters in 2016 to 11 billion in 2025, while desalination capacity rose from nine million to 16 million cubic meters per day. AlFadley also chairs the National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification.