Question: Which city hosted the World Future Energy Summit 2020 held from 13 to 16 January 2020?
(a) New York
(b) Jerusalem
(c) Abu Dhabi
(d) Wellington
Answer: (c)
Related facts:
- The World Future Energy Summit of 2020 has been organized in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This is the leading global industry event and exhibition for future energy, cleantech and sustainability.
- The summit was organized from 13 to 16 January 2020.
Important highlights of the summit:
- Around 33,500 participants from 170 countries and 800 specialist exhibitors attended the four-day annual event.
- The theme for this year’s summit is “Rethinking Global Consumption, Production, and Investment.”
- World Future Energy Summit is the largest future energy and sustainability event organized in the Middle East.
- Held annually at Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, the 2020 edition includes exhibition and forum programmes across five main pillars: energy, solar, water, waste and smart cities, hosting an unrivalled gathering of top-level government and business leaders.
- The event set an example for best practice, supporting the circular economy through recycling, and acting to remove single-use plastics from the event.
- Also held alongside the World Future Energy Summit are the Climate Innovations Exchange, ‘CLIX’ for short and the Future Sustainability Summit.
- The event showcased 42 of the world’s most disruptive innovations, selected from 1,402 global submissions from 128 countries, related to the future of energy, food, agriculture and sustainability in space.
Links:
http://ddnews.gov.in/international/world-future-energy-summit-begins-abu-dhabi
https://www.worldfutureenergysummit.com/#/