Expo 2015 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Expo 2015 is the next scheduled Universal Exposition after Expo 2012, and will be hosted by Milan, Italy, between 1 May and 31 October 2015.[1][2 The theme chosen for the 2015 Milan Universal Exposition is Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. This embraces technology, innovation, culture, traditions and creativity and how they relate to food and diet. Expo 2015 will further develop themes introduced in earlier Expos (e.g., water at Expo 2008 in Zaragoza) in the light of new global scenarios and emerging issues, with a principal focus on the right to healthy, secure and sufficient food for all the world’s inhabitants. The concerns of many futurologists about the quality of food in the years to come are compounded by forecasts of increasing uncertainties regarding the quantities of food that will be available globally. These concerns, expressed early on in studies by MIT for the Club of Rome, were largely ignored at a time when it appeared that increases in resource availability would outstrip increases in consumption. However, the rapid depletion of agricultural surpluses has clearly manifested the urgency of the problem of how to Feed the Planet and prevent hunger. Participants in the Expo are expected to include over 130 countries plus a significant number of international organizations. As part of the reciprocity protocol with Expo 2010 of Shanghai, on December 8, 2008, China was the first country to formalize its participation in Expo Milan 2015. The first country out of the reciprocity protocol to confirm its participation was Switzerland on February 3, 2011.[9] The following 132 countries have confirmed participation: The Americas Argentina[11] Bolivia[12] Brazil[12] Chile[13] Colombia[14] Costa Rica[15] Cuba[16] Dominica[17] Dominican Republic[18] Ecuador[19] El Salvador[16] Guatemala[20] Haiti[21] Honduras[22] Mexico[23] Panama[24] Paraguay[16] Peru[20] Saint Lucia[25] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[26] Uruguay[27] Africa Algeria[17] Angola[16] Benin Burundi[28] Central African Republic Cameroon[29] Comoros[30] Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt[31] Equatorial Guinea[32] Eritrea[15] Ethiopia[33] Gabon[34] Gambia[35] Ghana[36] Guinea[37] Guinea-Bissau[38] Ivory Coast[16] Kenya[39] Mali[17] Mauritania[40] Mozambique[41] Niger Nigeria[16] Republic of the Congo[42] São Tomé and Príncipe[43] Senegal[44] Seychelles[45] Sierra Leone[46] Tanzania[47] Togo[20] Tunisia[17] Uganda[48] Zambia Zimbabwe Asia Afghanistan[16] Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh[49] Brunei [37] Cambodia[50] China[51] India[46] Indonesia[52] Iran[53] Iraq[16] Israel[54] Japan[55] Jordan Kazakhstan[17] Kyrgyzstan[56] Kuwait[54] Laos Lebanon[57] Malaysia[16] Mongolia[46] Myanmar[16] Nepal[58] Oman[59] Palestine[60] Pakistan[61] Qatar[62] Saudi Arabia[63] Syria[64] South Korea[65] Sri Lanka[17] Tajikistan[57] Thailand[62] Turkey United Arab Emirates[41] Uzbekistan[66] Vietnam[67] Yemen Europe Albania[68] Armenia[69] Austria[63] Azerbaijan[70] Belgium[17] Belarus[17] Bulgaria[71] Croatia Czech Republic Estonia[16] France[72] Hungary Georgia[12] Germany[20] Greece[73] Italy (Host country) Latvia[17] Lithuania[74] Malta[75] Moldova[18] Monaco[22] Montenegro[76] Romania[70] Russia[77] San Marino[78] Serbia Slovakia[57] Slovenia[40] Spain[79] Switzerland[80][81] Turkey[70] Ukraine[42] Vatican City[16] Oceania Federated States of Micronesia[82] Palau[83] Vanuatu[16] International organizations CERN European Union FAO SMOM United Nations [84][dead link] Other organizations Action Aid International Alliance 2015 Caritas Internationalis Don Bosco Network Oxfam International Companies China Vanke As of July 7, 2013 The United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia have not joined the event. Well then it should be a wonderful event!
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