The third World Future Energy Summit (WFES) put the emphasis on the fight against global warming
The third
World Future Energy Summit (WFES), organised in Abu Dhabi from the 16th to the 21st January, welcomed a great many experts from the future energy community, including important decision makers from both the public and private sectors, significant investors, researchers and renowned academics. The aim: to examine solutions to
"the problems presented by a world that increasingly depends on fossil-fuel based energy. " The shadow of Copenhagen was hanging over the Summit and many participants very clearly asserted their willingness to work in favour of the
development of clean energy to deal with global warming.
"If we don’t act now, our coral reefs and rainforests will die, desert countries will become unbearably hot and low lying countries like the Maldives, will slip beneath the rising seas" warned Mohammed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, which is in danger of being submerged by the Indian Ocean.
As for the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, he chose to outline the experience in his country, which wants the share of renewable energy brought up from 20% to 30% by 2023, whereas Prince Frederik of Denmark, for his part, emphasised the presence of commercial enterprise at the Summit, which "proves that green technology is not only good for the environment but also for business " with "significant potential for employment."
"Respect the 31st January 2010 deadline" On the French side, the Minister for Sustainable Development Jean-Louis Borloo called for the implementation of the financing decided by the Copenhagen agreement on the 18th January, a month after the climate summit was held in the Danish capital. The Minister also called upon the industrialised countries to ''respect the deadline of 31st January 2010'' that was given in the
Copenhagen agreement for submission of commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Prince Albert II of Monaco brought the Summit to a close on Thursday 21st January, with a speech highlighting the urgency of finding a solution to the energy crisis:
"finally, it’s the responsibility of the political classes to create the conditions favourable to innovation, to promote research and to encourage the use of new energies, particularly through subsidies that help to improve their competitiveness compared to fossil fuels."
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