Amin Abbas

ABU DHABI: The world’s leading business event for future energy and sustainability, the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) hosted a Japanese pavilion to introduce environmental-friendly technologies from April 16 to 18. 

Taking place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, the three-day summit aims to promote innovation and investment to bring about a global transition to clean energy and lay down plans to build a sustainable future by attracting investors and providers of advanced energy solutions.

Drawing in over 30,000 visitors from around the world, WFES is a world-class future energy and sustainability event, with its role encompassing a drive to accelerate the global energy transition and align the efforts of industry leaders, policymakers, and startups.

The summit’s theme this year was ‘Technologies to Achieve Carbon Neutralities’ as it had calls from governments, climate scientists, and investors to accelerate adoption of the circular economy and scramble renewable usage in resource generation and consumption.

 

The pavilion was organized by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI). It showcased 11 Japanese companies and their solutions in various areas, such as carbon recycling and solar power.

The Japanese companies and technologies included, but were not limited to, Inpex’s carbon-free energy transition, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ energy transition and low-carbon solutions.

“Some of these companies are part of the ‘Japan-UAE Coordination Scheme for Advanced Technology’ (JU-CAT) project, which was launched by METI and the Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology of the UAE (MoIAT) for the development of future innovation and young human resources,” a representative of the pavilion told Arab News Japan. 

“Our focus this year was on carbon neutrality, hydrogen production and separation, as well as water recycling systems. Some Emirati investors are interested in the unique Japanese technologies, especially from the startups companies that are part of the JU-CAT project. That makes our participation this year different from last year’s edition of WFES,” he added.

The event wrapped up with over 100 sessions of essential industry content on transformative technologies and developments, complemented by key sustainable development and climate change conferences and hundreds of technologies and innovations on the exhibition floor.