The cooperation agreement was signed in Dubai on Thursday, in the presence of Abe and UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashif al-Maktoum and Abe who is on a regional tour he began in Saudi Arabia, in a push to sell Japanese nuclear technologies.
Making his second visit to the Persian Gulf country as prime minister, Abe arrived late on Wednesday in the UAE.
Abe announced at the forum that Japan would sign a nuclear agreement with the United Arab Emirates.
"Japan can contribute to UAE energy supplies by means of nuclear energy conservation and renewable energy," he said according to translation from Japanese.
The UAE announced in mid-July that it would begin building two of four nuclear power plants -- each with a capacity of 1,400 megawatts -- in partnership with a South Korean consortium, as part of plans to produce electricity from 2017.
With four plants scheduled to be operational by 2020, the UAE hopes that nuclear energy would provide up to a quarter of its electricity needs, which are forecast to soar to 40 gigawatts from 15.5 currently.
A Japanese-French consortium has won a $22 billion contract to build a nuclear power plant on Turkey's Black Sea coast, a senior energy ministry official said on Thursday.