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FCC Environment participates
in the
World Waste to Energy City Summit 2016
On 10 – 11 May, FCC Environment parti-
cipated in the World Waste to Energy City
Summit 2016, held in London. The event
brought together the most renowned in-
ternational experts in the field of waste to
energy management.
The attendance of the Citizen Services
Group at the summit reflects how strategic
is the waste to energy business to FCC’s
environmental services area.
FCC Environment held an information stand
and participated in several activities during
the summit. At the opening session, Carlos
Afonso, Corporate Development and Con-
cessions Manager at FCC Medio Ambien-
te, explained the main access opportunities
into the international markets for the sector,
pointing out the features of the developed
markets compared with those of the deve-
loping ones. The following day, Paul Taylor,
CEO of FCC Environment UK, spoke during
a debate with other British CEOs. In the de-
bate, aspects relating to the circular eco-
nomy and the reliability of certain Advanced
Conversion Technologies (ACT) were dis-
cussed. Furthermore, Javier Cerezo, Tech-
nical Manager of FCC Environment, hosted
a roundtable of experts and managers, who
discussed factors to be considered on fu-
ture projects, as well as his reflections on
previous experiences.
The summit was attended by political
authorities, senior executives, developers,
banks, investment funds, technology pro-
viders and end-users. The current state of
the sector was analysed during different
seminars and scheduled debates. Further-
more, the future of the industry in the tech-
nological innovation, political and economic
fields were discussed in local, European
and global contexts.
Since 2012
With its headquarters in London,
the World Waste to Energy Sum-
mit” was first held in the Spring of
2012. Since then, there have been
five editions – the last one held in
May of this year – all of them with
a common denominator: the largest
international meeting of experts in
energy to waste focused on acce-
lerating the development of conver-
sion technologies for municipal and
industrial waste.