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Day 1: 26 July 2011 (Tue.)
“Hayama proposal and Implications of Japan’s Disaster”
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| 9:30-10:00 Opening Session | | | Welcome Remarks |  Prof. Hironori Hamanaka Chair of the Board of Directors, IGES | | Prof. Govindan Parayil Director, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) / Vice-Rector, United Nations University | | Guest Remarks | | Mr. Tatsushi Terada Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan | | Mr. Masao Kurokawa Vice Governor, Kanagawa Prefectural Government | | Mr. Takashi Komatsuzaki , Vice Mayor, City of Yokohama | | Special Remarks | | Mr. Rae Kwon Chung, Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) | | Dr. Young-Woo Park, Regional Director and Representative, UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP-ROAP) | Mr. Xianbin Yao, Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department,
Asian Development Bank (ADB) |
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Consequences of Fukushima and a Proposal for Post 2012 Climate Regime | | | This session focused on perspectives on Climate/Energy policy post-2012 and post-tsunami disaster for Japan and other countries in the world by drawing on perspectives from experts from Japan, Germany, China, India, and Korea. In particular a concrete proposal from the IGES Climate Change group was presented for the future international climate regime and the implications of the tsunami-related disaster for specific policies. | | Keynote Session | | Moderator: Prof. Akio Morishima, Special Research Advisor, IGES | | Prof. Dr. Klaus Töpfer, Executive Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) (593KB) | | Prof. Hiroaki Niitsuma, Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University | | High-level Panel | | Moderator: Ms. Charmine Koda, Journalist | | Prof. Teng Fei, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China (55KB) | | Dr. Leena Srivastava, Executive Director, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) | | Mr. Bobby A. Tamaela Wattimena, Exective Director Pelangi Indonesia | | Prof. Toshiro Kojima, Special Advisor, IGES (659KB) | | <Presentation> | | Prof. Jusen Asuka, Director,Climate Change Group, IGES (72KB) | | Mr. Anindya Bhattacharya, Senior Energy Economist, Economy and Environment Group, IGES (572KB) | | Open Discussion | | Moderator: Prof. Jusen Asuka, Director,Climate Change Group, IGES (176KB) | | Discussant: Prof. Yukari Takamura, Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (55KB) | | and High-level Panelists |
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| 14:30-17:30 SESSION II:
Building Resilient Societies | | Resilience is the capability to deal with catastrophic events such as the one that hit East Japan in terms of the natural/ environmental, social, and economic capital and the infrastructure, as well as institutions for providing services, which together can contribute to making a society resilient - a concept which has become widely recognised as being vital in the light of climate change adaptation. This session took up the issue of building resilient societies where these characteristics are appropriately designed to cope with extreme natural disasters and their associated impacts, reflecting on the recent disasters in East Japan and extreme events outside Japan (e.g. 2011 Christchurch earthquake; 2004 tsunami, Indonesia; Hurricane Katrina, 2005).
The topics covered included community institutions, short and long-term responses/policies, and city, land-use and coastal planning in order to grasp the policy implications of these events to developing resilient societies. | | Keynote Session | | Moderator: Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Vice Rector, UNU | | Dr. Atiq Rahman, Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS) (3.71MB) | | Prof. Katsumi Fujii, President, Iwate University / Chairman, Iwate Prefecture Reconstruction Committee (384KB) | | Dr. Akira Miyawaki, Director, IGES-Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology (IGES-JISE) (4.46MB) | | High-level Panel | | Moderator: Mr. Kazuhiko Takemoto, Senior Fellow, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) | | Dr. Ljubica Mamula-Seadon, Team Leader, Sector Development, Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management, New Zealand (565KB) | | Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne, General Secretary, Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement (743KB) | | Prof. Rajib Shaw, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, IEDM, Kyoto University (712KB) | | Prof. Hiroshi Suzuki, Honorable Professor, Fukushima University / Chairman, Fukushima Prefecture Reconstruction Committee (331KB) | | Open Discussion | | Moderator: Mr. Hideyuki Mori, President, IGES (126KB) | | Mr. Muhammed Quamrul Chowdhury, Chairman, Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists (APFEJ) | | Prof. Shinnosuke Tama, Professor, University Education Center, Iwate University (212KB) | | Mr. Masanori Kobayashi, Senior Coordinator, IGES (338KB) | | Dr. Puja Sawhney, Senior Climate Change Adaptation Specialist, IGES Regional Centre (703KB) |
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Day 2: 27 July 2011 (Wed.)
“Rio+20 - Governance for Sustainable Development and Green Economy”
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9:30-12:15 SESSION III:
Governance for Sustainable Development | | | This session emphasised the Asia-Pacific region’s specific focus and possible contributions to the Rio+20 regional preparation process. The goal of this session was to facilitate constructive dialogue between stakeholders from different areas of the environment and sustainable development field. With this dialogue at ISAP, the outcome will be transmitted to the ongoing regional preparations towards Rio+20. Recognising the conceptual gap between international environmental governance (IEG) and the overarching institutional framework for sustainable development (IFSD), and convinced of the need for conceptually embedding IEG with IFSD, the triple session encouraged speakers, panellists, discussants and other participants to interact each other and share experiences, views and latest research outcomes to contribute to the regional preparations for Rio+20 as well as to discuss other important and related issues. | | Keynote Session | | Moderator: Prof. Ryokichi Hirono, Professor Emeritus, Seikei University | | Prof. Nay Htun, Professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook (93KB) | | Dr. Cielito F. Habito, Professor & Director, Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development / Former Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning in the Philippines (265KB) | | Dr. Günther Bachmann, Secretary General, German Council for Sustainable Development (570KB) | | High-level Panel | | Moderator: Dr. Peter King, Senior Policy Advisor, IGES | | Mr. Felipe Rodrigues Gomes Ferreira, Head of the Energy and Environment Section, Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo | | Mr. Rae Kwon Chung, Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) | | Mr. Surendra Shrestha,Team Leader, IFSD, Secretariat for United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD: Rio+20) (514KB) | | Ms. Yoko Maki, Senior Director, Global Environment Knowledge Centre, Environment Bureau, City of Kawasaki, Japan (1.48MB) | | Ms. Suwanna Jungrungrueng, Director, Air Quality and Noise Management Division, Environment Department for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (4.47MB) | | Open Discussion | | Moderator: Dr. Mark Elder, Director, Governance and Capacity Group, IGES (478KB) | | Ms. Ella Antonio, President, Earth Council Asia-Pacific,INC. (1.35MB) | | Prof. Yukari Takamura, Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University (172KB) | | Dr. Akihisa Mori , Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (51KB) |
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13:30-16:15 SESSION IV:
Green Economy | | | Diverse policies for developing countries relating to poverty issues incl. NAMAs, Co-benefits, SCP, etc. will promote Green Economy in developing countries. Under the overall theme of ISAP 2011, this session first introduced the current international discussion on green economy and green growth, and then discussed experiences, further potentials and challenges of green economy/green growth in Asia-Pacific region, in particular its implications to sustainable development and poverty eradication in this region as well as international concerns such as green protectionism or additional conditionality on development paths. The session also covered the application of Green Economy approach in specific sectors/issues, e.g. international resource circulation and regional cooperation on co-benefits in Asia through an Asian Co-benefits Partnership (ACP). | | Keynote Session | | Moderator: Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi, Special Advisor in the Asia Pacific Region, UNEP Finance Initiative | | Dr. Emil Salim, Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia (Video Message) | | Mr. Hikaru Kobayashi, Senior Counselor, Ministry of the Environment, Japan | | Mr. Xianbin Yao, Director General, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB) (711KB) | | High-level Panel (54KB) | | Moderator: Dr. Cielito F. Habito, Professor & Director, Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development / Former Secretary of Socioeconomic Planning in the Philippines | | Mr. Rae Kwon Chung, Director, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) (45KB) (101KB) | | Dr. Young-Woo Park, Regional Director and Representative, UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP-ROAP) | | Mr. Takashi Hongo, Special Advisor and Head of Environment Finance Engineering Dept.,Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) (142KB) | | Dr. Monthip Sriratana Tabucanon, Former Principal Inspector General, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand (633KB) | | Mr. Koji Yamashita, General Manager, Corporate Environmental Sustainability Group, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (1.77MB) | | Open Discussion | | Moderator: Dr. Shuzo Nishioka, Senior Research Advisor, IGES | | Prof. Katsunori Suzuki, Professor, Kanazawa University (300KB) | | Dr. Satoshi Kojima, Director, Economy and Environment Group, IGES (451KB) | | Dr. Magnus Bengtsson, Director, Sustainable Consumption and Production Group, IGES (230KB) |
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16:30-18:00 SESSION V:
Summary Session on Road to Rio+20 | | | In collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), this session provided a chair's summary from the previous plenary sessions followed by open discussions with the audience. The aim of the open discussion was to get feedback and develop key messages from regional stakeholders which can be delivered to UNCSD Rio20 via the Asia-Pacific regional consultation. A summary of the discussions and key messages will be shared at the Asia Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting for the UNCSD to be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 19-20 October 2011. | | Chair: Prof. Hironori Hamanaka, Chair of the Board of Directors, IGES | 1. Chair’s Summary (72KB)
[Day 1]
Session 1: Jusen Asuka - Hayama Proposal
Session 2: Hideyuki Mori - Resilient Societies (102KB)
[Day 2]
Session 3: Peter King - Sustainable Development Governance (172KB)
Session 4: Satoshi Kojima - Green Economy (105KB) | | 2. Messages from major groups | | 3. Open floor discussion on major messages and key issues from the region to Rio+20 |
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