Session
From Good Practices to Great Transformations: How can the SDGs Bring Scalable Change to Asia?
The adoption of the 2030 Development Agenda and SDGs in September 2015 led to calls for widespread, transformational change. Since that time, a growing number of cities, businesses, and non-state actors have promoted innovative initiatives with varied degrees of success. How can the impacts of these actions be expanded and extended?
Discussions on the SDGs frequently presume that identified good practices will necessarily be scaled up rather than analysing the institutional and policy reforms governments and international organisations must take to ensure their impacts over space and time. This session invites development practitioners to share their experiences with regard to promoting SDG actions and then discusses with policymakers and representatives from key organisations on how these can be upscaled effectively.
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Bambang Susantono
Vice-President, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
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Herbert M Bautista
Mayor, Quezon City, the Philippines
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Hidemitsu Sasaya
Managing Executive Officer / Manager, CSR Promotion Department, ITO EN, LTD.
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Miyuki Hokugo
Staff Writer of Asahi Shimbun
Framing Presentation
Eric Zusman
Research Leader, Sustainability Governance Centre, IGES
Moderator
Hideyuki Mori
President, IGES
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Herbert M Bautista
Mayor, Quezon City, the Philippines
Mayor Herbert M Bautista is known as a pioneer and progressive advocate of solutions for environment issues and climate change. Under his leadership, Quezon City became the first city in the Philippines to implement a Green Building Ordinance, enforcing sustainable building designs throughout the city. He is leading the city to reduce its carbon footprint through the shift of public facilities towards alternative energy sources, wider installation of systems for resource reuse, and restrictions in the use of non-biodegradable materials.
His climate change mitigation activism has resulted in the recognition of the city's success stories in global fora and international movements, and has led it to be chosen to be the pilot city for several climate change program innovations.
His urban development framework anchors the City’s housing and resettlement program on disaster-risk reduction as well as quality of life enrichment. He has led the Quezon City Government to develop an award-winning socialized housing program designed to move the poor from danger areas towards new townships, a project he is implementing in multiples, in collaboration with the private sector and national government agencies.
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Bambang Susantono
Vice-President, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Dr. Bambang Susantono is the Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of the Asian Development Bank, responsible for Departments of Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Economic Research and Regional Cooperation, and External Relations.
He was Vice-Minister of Indonesia’s Ministry of Transportation and Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development. His extensive experience mainly includes policy advice to government and private sector. He was also Board Member for airline, port, and telecommunications; President of Indonesia Intelligent Transport Society; Vice President of East Asia Society of Transportation Studies in Tokyo; and chaired several research institutes.
Dr. Susantono holds a PhD in Infrastructure Planning and Master’s degrees in Transportation Engineering, and City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley; Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology.
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Hidemitsu Sasaya
Managing Executive Officer / Manager, CSR Promotion Department, ITO EN, LTD.
Mr. Sasaya currently serves as Director for the Sustainability Forum Japan, the Japanese Business Ethics Society, and the Global Business Society. He has qualifications as a certified tour guide interpreter (English and French). He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Law and entered the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in 1977. He held positions of Councillor of the Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of the Environment and MAFF, as well as Director-General of the Kanto Regional Forest Office. He retired from MAFF in 2008 and joined ITO EN the same year, serving as Director from 2010 to 2014. He took up his current position as Managing Executive Officer in July 2014. He is the author of two books, “Era of Collaboration” (2015, Wis-works) and “Competitive Strategy of the CSR New Age” (2013, Nippon Hyoron sha).
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Miyuki Hokugo
Staff Writer of Asahi Shimbun
The founding member of Asahi’s special team which carry reports of SDGs under the title of ‘2030 Make it Change with SDGs’. The series of articles are aim to let readers realize ‘Hmm, SDGs is related to myself’. As a journalist, she has a background in politics, international affairs. Jakarta Correspondent from 2000-2002. Teaching experience in several University. M I S, University of Birmingham, UK.