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DAY 2, 17 JANUARY 2023 Today 02
Spotlight on sustainability as World Future Energy Summit fuels collaboration As 2023’s iteration of the World Future Energy Summit begins its second day, it perfectly encapsulates the approach required to facilitate the energy transition: boundary-pushing, forwardthinking, and partnership-building. During yesterday’s opening ceremony, H.E. Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, Special Envoy for Climate Change, and Chairman of Masdar, explained, “This year carries a special significance, because it is the year that we host COP28. “The UAE approaches this role with a deep sense of responsibility...we share the ambition to make transformational and game-changing progress.”
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H.E. Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber inaugurated 2023’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, in which the World Future Energy Summit plays a key role.
Solar & Clean Energy
Smart Cities
Forums for future energy
Setting smart standards
Solutions from the source
This year’s Solar & Clean Energy Forum provides a platform to discuss the pressing developments, potential issues and innovative solutions driving the clean energy transition forwards.
The Smart Cities Forum opened at the World Future Energy Summit yesterday, hosting a number of lively presentations and discussions on the socio-economic need for, and benefits of, smart cities, digitalising smart cities, decarbonised cities and sustainable materials for construction.
Tackling the complex landscape of water sourcing, scarcity, and security, 2023’s Water Expo & Forum gathers over 70 speakers to enable discussion and facilitate partnerships to guarantee an innovative and sustainable future for regional water projects.
H.E. Eng. Sharif Al Olama, Undersecretary, Energy and Petroleum Affairs at the Ministry of Energy & Infrastructure, said in his opening keynote presentation at the Solar & Clean Energy Forum, “We gather here to emphasise our productive efforts and continue our commitment to pursuing the global energy transition. “Tremendous efforts are being made globally...I’m confident these sessions will provide valuable insights that will help pave the way for the course on the clean energy transition.”
During her opening presentation on benchmarking the region’s embodied carbon, Iman Abi Saab, Technical Director for the Middle East and Technical Excellence Leader at Mott MacDonald, discussed the methods of minimising embodied carbon, emission reduction targets, and the various stages during the asset lifecycle at which carbon could be embodied, explaining that the construction stage of the actual asset is the stage at which most embodied carbon is generated.
Water
Hosting the opening presentation of the Water Forum, H.E. Eng. Yousif Al Ali, Assistant Undersecretary, Minister of Energy & Infrastructure, explained, “Water is critical to our wellbeing, a key growth driver, and a central pillar in the agenda for sustainability development goals. “Let us unite to meet future demands, work together by accelerating innovative technologies, and build more integrated resource management systems to achieve a better future.”
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