The High-Level Seminar (HLS) on Sustainable Cities (former title: HLS on Environmentally Sustainable Cities) is organised annually as a platform to gather together influential East and Southeast Asia policymakers, experts and practitioners working to make cities clean, green and sustainable since 2010. HLS provides opportunities for participants to share and promote their latest ideas and initiatives on sustainable city development; to explore collaboration potential; and, importantly, to develop specific recommendations to the East Asia Summit Environment Ministers Meeting, which includes ASEAN Environment Ministers, on practical cooperation activities on environmentally sustainable cities.
The 11th HLS was originally planned in March 2020 in Manila, the Philippines, and it was postponed because of the spread of COVID-19. Currently, discussion on how to accelerate transformative changes to more sustainable and resilient city in the context of the New Normal is taking place in various occasions, and it is optimal time for cities and those who work with cities in the regions to share the on-going initiatives and consider future direction of recovery policies and measures on “building back better”.
In light of the importance to address the issue, the organisers of the 11th HLS, namely the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Philippines, the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities and the ASEAN Secretariat decided to organise the 11HLS on-line as a webinar series consisting three parts – opening high-level plenary, thematic segment, and the concluding session each of which exchange views and discuss the direction of cities’ development.
Event Details
On-line meeting via zoom
Any enquiries should be directed to the Secretariat via email at [email protected].
Presentation Materials
Opening Session
Moderator: Dr. K. Nagulendran
Chair of ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC);
Deputy Secretary General (Environment), Ministry of Environment and Water, Malaysia
| 10:00 PHT 11:00 JST |
Opening Remarks |
Mr. KONDO Tomohiro, Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan |
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Atty. Jonas R. Leones, Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs |
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| 10:15 PHT 11:15 JST |
Messages from Cities “Sustainable and Resilient Cities in New Normal” | ||
| Messages from City Mayors | Mr. KATAYAMA Kenya, Mayor, Niseko Town, Hokkaido | PDF (3.0MB) | |
| Mr. SHIMIZU Hayato, Mayor, Saitama City (Video Message) | Video | ||
| Ms. Andrea Valentine A. Villaroman, Head, Environmental Protection and Waste Management Department, Quezon City Government | PDF (2.6MB) | ||
| The speech of Mr. Chansouk PHANDOLAK. Mayor, Luang Prabang, Lao PDR is cancelled According to circumstances. | |||
| 10:50 PHT 11:50 JST |
Presentations and Discussion | ||
| Mr. Curt Garrigan, Chief, Sustainable Urban Development Section, Environment and Development Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) | PDF (2.3MB) | ||
| Mr. Saiful Adib bin Abdul Munaff, Director of Sustainable Cities, Malaysian Green Technology Corporation, Malaysia | PDF (2.5MB) | ||
| Dr.Pornpimol Varathorn, Director of Public Participatory Promotion Bureau, Department of Environmental Quality Promotion, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand | PDF (3.1MB) | ||
| 11:15 PHT 12:15 JST |
Closure of the Session | ||
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Thematic Session
| Segment 1: Progress of the SDGs at Local Level | |||
| 13:00 PHT 14:00 JST |
Presentations | Mr. Pak Sokharavuth, Deputy Director General, General Directorate of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia | PDF (3.5MB) |
| Ms. MURAKAMI Emiko, Director of Business Promotion Division, Asian Center for Low Carbon Society, City of Kitakyushu | PDF (3.1MB) | ||
| Mr. Novrizal Tahar, Director of Solid Waste Management, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Indonesia | PDF (1.5MB) | ||
| Mr. Nguyen Huy Hoang, Director of Planning and Finance Department, Viet Nam Administration of Seas and Islands, Viet Nam |
PDF (645KB) | ||
| Mr. IWASAKI Fusanori, Executive Assistant to President, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) | PDF (2.6MB) | ||
| Mr. Omar Siddique, Economic Affairs Officer, Environment and Development Division UN ESCAP, and Ms. Miho Hayashi, Programme Manager, CCET/IGES | PDF (2.6MB) | ||
| Mr. Kanchit Manoonphol, Deputy Mayor, Nakhon Si Thammarat City Municipality | |||
| 14:00 PHT 15:00 JST |
Break (5 min.) | ||
| Segment 2: Climate related Initiatives Moderator: Mr. Emani Kumar, ICLEI Deputy Secretary General Regional Director, ICLEI South Asia Secretariat |
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| 14:05 PHT 15:05 JST |
Framing Presentation by Moderator | PDF (1.0MB) | |
| Mr. SHIBUYA Jun, Deputy Director, Environmental Strategy Division, Environmental Policy Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan | PDF (2.1MB) | ||
| Mr. Albert A. Magalang, Chief, Climate Change Division (CCD), Environmental Management Bureau, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, the Philippines | PDF (500KB) | ||
| Mr. MICHIGAMI Ryutaro, Deputy Director for International Cooperation Environment Bureau, Osaka City, Japan | PDF (1.5MB) | ||
| Ms. Erni Pelita Fitratunnisa, Head of Environmental Management and Cleanliness of Environmental Management Agency - Jakarta City | PDF (2.8MB) | ||
| Dr. Kang San In, Chief Research Fellow, Korea Environment Institute (KEI) | PDF (2.0MB) | ||
| 15:05 PHT 16:05 JST |
Closure of the Session | ||
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Closing Session: Solidarity for sustainable and resilient city in the New Normal
| PART 1: Presentations Moderator: Dr. Junichi Fujino, Programme Director; City Taskforce, IGES |
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| 9:00 PHT 10:00 JST |
Presentations | Ms. Thuy Trang Dang, Senior Urban Development Specialist, Urban Development and Water Division, Southeast Asia Department, Asian Development Bank | PDF (2.5MB) |
| TPr. Annie Syazrin Ismail, Senior Assistant Director, Planning Department, Shar Alam City Council, Malaysia | PDF (3.9MB) | ||
| Mr. Angsutorn Wasusun, Investment and International Affairs Department, the Eastern Economic Corridor Office, Thailand | PDF (3.9MB) | ||
| Ms. Soumya Chaturvedula, Deputy Director, ICLEI-South Asia Secretariat | PDF (1.9MB) | ||
| Part 2. A way forward: future directions of HLS Moderator: Ms. Yatsuka Kataoka, Joint Programme Director; City Taskforce, IGES |
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| 10:00 PHT 11:00 JST |
Engr William P Cunado, Director, Environmental Management Bureau, Department of Natural Environment and Natural Resources (DNER) | ||
| Dr. K. Nagulendran, Chair of ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC); Deputy Secretary General (Environment), Ministry of Environment and Water, Malaysia | |||
| Dr. Vong Sok, Head of Environment Division, Assistant Director of Sustainable Development Director - The ASEAN Secretariat | |||
| Mr. Phothala SOUKSAKHONE, Deputy Head of Environmental Promotion Division, Department of Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Laos | |||
| Mr. KONDO Tomohiro, Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan |
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| 10:30 PHT 11:30 JST |
Closure of the Session | ||
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