North Sea Summit

North Sea Summit
 

News: Recently, Nine European countries have convened for a summit aimed at boosting the deployment of offshore wind turbines in the North Sea to make it the largest green energy centre in Europe.
 

About North Sea summit:

 Location – Ostend, Belgium
 Participant countries - Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands Norway, and the United Kingdom
 Objective - To make the North Sea the largest green energy centre in Europe by accelerating the deployment of offshore wind turbines.
 The summit sets ambitious targets including the production of at least 120 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy in the North Sea by 2030
 The first summit in 2022 had Esbjerg Declaration which was held in Denmark.
 

About North Sea:

It is the northeastern arm of the Atlantic Ocean located between the British Isles and the mainland of northwestern Europe.

It is bordered by:

→ The island of Great Britain to the southwest and west.

→ The Orkney and Shetland Islands are to the northwest.

→ Norway to the northeast, Denmark to the east.

→ Germany and the Netherlands to the southeast.

→ Belgium and France to the south.

It is connected to the Atlantic by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel and opens directly onto the ocean between the Orkney and Shetland Islands and between the Shetland Islands and Norway.