Global Leaders To Explore Highway To Net Zero At ADSW

According to the report, policymakers, industry leaders, heads of state, and entrepreneurs from around the world will come together and discuss the most pressing issues and opportunities on the road to net zero.

The two-day summit is the flagship event of ADSW, which runs from January 14–19. The summit will focus on how to scale up transformative technology, the importance of international partnerships, food security, shaping the global financial architecture for climate action, and securing a stable energy pathway to net zero.

Report added It will also ensure an ongoing dialogue between key stakeholders and provide opportunities to translate pledges into practical solutions.

ADSW 2023 features a series of key events throughout the week that seek to engage all sections of society.

The World Future Energy Summit—the 14th leading business event for future energy—begins a three-day run at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec) today (January 16), with global energy and sustainable stakeholders eagerly anticipating insights and outcomes to accelerate global and regional adoption of the circular economy and clean energy, stated the report.

According to the report, the 2023 Summit will be a powerhouse of inspiration across key sustainability sectors through six exhibitions and five dedicated forums individually addressing today’s vital energy challenges and multi-sectoral impacts.

The vertically segmented expos and forums are going to focus on energy, water, eco-waste, solar, smart cities, climate, and the environment.

"New to the Summit is the Hydrogen Innovation Hub, which will be running alongside the Energy Expo & Forum and will probe current and future solutions enabling green hydrogen to play a critical role in the energy transition," highlighted the report.

"This Summit, more than any other, has the potential to deliver a seismic shift in global, regional, and local energy operations, policies, plans, investments, and overall economic direction," said Leen Alsebai, Head of the World Future Energy Summit and General Manager of Summit Organizer RX Middle East.

"It comes at a time of a worldwide rethink on energy sources, supply resilience, and the future-proofing of resources against a backdrop of a mounting clamour for the industry to transform and be at the forefront of tangible action against climate change."

According to the report, The EcoWaste Exhibition & Forum, organised and hosted by Abu Dhabi Waste Management Center (Tadweer), will be a forerunner to the GCC’s adoption of circular economy leadership as the region and wider Middle East dial up efforts to tackle their long-tolerated, urbanisation-induced waste dilemmas.

The report mentions that EcoWaste participants will explore the GCC’s innovative approach to sustainable waste management and game-changing solutions poised to help address the Middle East and Africa’s waste crisis, which the World Bank estimates will double to 255 million metric tonnes a year by 2050.

Alsebia explained, "There is a growing realisation of the urgency of the dilemma with the GCC currently generating between 105 and 130 million metric tonnes of waste a year, primarily from municipal solid waste, construction and demolition, and agriculture."

According to the World Energy Summit's CEO, the latest industry forecasts indicate that US$ 60-85 billion in investment across plastic, concrete, cement, metal, and bio-waste value streams will be required over the next two decades to meet GCC waste management and landfill diversion targets.

The Forum will host prominent keynotes, case studies, and panel discussions that deep dive into disruptive approaches to creating new value from waste, technology for waste management, landfill diversion strategies, waste-to-energy studies, the end of single-use plastics, and improved waste management techniques, said the report.

It will also feature the UAE and GCC Waste Management Forum—a high-level GCC municipality discussion on ways to further the region’s sustainable waste management practices.

report concluded, "The 2023 Summit will also debut a Green Hydrogen Innovation Hub, which will demo solutions to accelerate green hydrogen adoption in the regional and global energy transition."

The Hub brings together key technologies enabling the production, transport, storage, and use of green hydrogen.

The report states that it will address the potential and innovation of green hydrogen across the entire value chain, including electrolysis and conversion technologies; transportation solutions; zero-emissions mobility; decarbonization of industrial production processes and building power consumption; large-scale storage; carbon capture, utilization, and storage; and waste to hydrogen and hydrogen to ammonia conversion technologies. 

 By Sumita Pawar