Program

Registration is only for the 13th. The 14th is a closed meeting reserved for invited specialists. Details on the symposium will be posted in the newspaper and on this web site.

6.13(Fri.) "A Message for the G8 leaders"

TIME PROGRAM SPEAKER(Panelists are in random order) MATERIALS
12:15
Opening Remarks
Shoichi Ueno
Owner, The Asahi Shimbun
12:20
Opening Speech
Yasuo Fukuda
Prime Minister of Japan
12:50
Special Lecture
Hiroshi Okuda
Senior Advisor Member of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation
13:20
Special Lecture
"Climate Security"
Margaret Beckett
Member of Parliament for Derby South, U.K; Former Foreign Secretary of the U.K.
14:05
Break
Panel discussion
"Global Warming - a Crisis Ahead"
14:20
Keynote speech
Connie Hedegaard
Minister of Climate and Energy, Denmark
14:40
Panel Discussion

Panelists

Mohan Munasinghe
Vice Chairman of IPCC
Wen Bo
China Program Director for Pacific Environment
James B. Steinberg
Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs,
The University of Texas at Austin
Atsutoshi Nishida
President and CEO, Toshiba Corporation

Facilitator

Yoichi Funabashi
Editor-in-Chief, The Asahi Shimbun
17:30
Close

* Materials marked with '(J)' are written in Japanese.

6.14(Sat.) "The Vanguard of Eco Front-Runners"

TIME PROGRAM SPEAKER(Panelists are in random order)
Cineplex-type seminars
"The Vanguard of Eco Front-Runners"
(several working sessions)
9:30
Theme 1)
Climate Change--The New Challenge for Low-carbon Society

Presenters

Carl Guardino
President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Moses Tsang
Chairman of Ajia Partners,Hong Kong
Takejiro Sueyoshi
Special Advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative(UNEP FI)
Satoshi Kawachi
Executive Vice President, Member of Board of Directors, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

Facilitator

Hironori Hamanaka
Chairperson of the IGES
12:00
Special Lecture
Katsuya Okada
Former President of the Democratic Party of Japan; Chief of a task force for global warming in the Democratic Party of Japan
12:30
Special Lecture
Erik Rasmussen
the Copenhagen Climate Councillor
12:50
Lunch Break
13:30
Theme 2)
The Future of Biodiversity

Presenters

Sebastian Winkler
Head of the Countdown 2010 Secretariat/The World Conservation Union(IUCN)
Ezekiel Dembe
Director of Planning and Projects Development of Tanzania National Parks
Tokutake Okajima
Advisor of the Higashiyama Botanical Gardens; Former Chairman of the Japan Association of Botanical Gardens
Akio Shoji
Representative Director and President of Aleph Inc.

Facilitator

Izumi Washitani
Professor of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo
16:00
Break
16:15
Theme 3)
Water Issues in Asia

Presenters

Ma Jun
Director of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, China
Mingsarn Kaosa-ard
Director of the Social Research Institute; Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Tushaar Shah
Senior Advisor to the Director General at the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute
Yukiko Kada
Governor of Shiga Prefecture

Facilitator

Hitoshi Watanabe
Associate Professor of Faculty of Commerce, Nagoya Gakuin University
18:45
Report Summary
Toshiro Kojima
Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

* Materials marked with '(J)' are written in Japanese.