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3rd Southeast Asia Water Forum

22-26 October 2007; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Opening Program | Theme B: Urban Water Management  
Day 1 Monday, 22 October
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:05 Welcoming Remark
  • Dato’ Ir. Syed Muhammad Shahabudin (Chairman, Malaysian Water Partnership)
09:05 - 09:15 Welcoming Speeches
  • Speech 1: Global Water Partnership- Southeast Asia
  • Speech 2: NRE
09:15 - 09:45 Opening Address
  • Prime Minister/ Ministry of Malaysia

09:45 - 10:15

Tea/Coffee Break

Keynote Addresses
  • Keynote 1: “IWRM – SEA Scenarios”
    (Dato’ Paduka Ir. Keizrul Abdullah)
    Director-General, Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Malaysia
  • Keynote 2: “IWRM - Global scenarios”
    (Prof. Torkil Jonch Clausen)
    Managing Director, UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment
  • Keynote 3: “Water Financing in Asia”
    (Wouter Lincklaen Arriens)
    Lead Water Resources Specialist
    Asian Development Bank
10:15 - 11:00 Single Session:

Climate Change and Global Warming
  • Keynote: “Mainstreaming Climate Change into the Developmental Agenda – Pitfalls and Opportunities”
    (Erna Witoelar)
    UN Special Ambassador for Millennium Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific and Vice-Chair of the Asia Pacific Water Forum’s Governing Council
  • Paper 1: “Water and Climate Change: The added challenge to achieving the MDG’s” (Prof. Torkil Jonch Clausen)
    Managing Director, UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment
  • Paper 2: “Water and Climate in the Pacific SIDS - Progress in Coping and Adaptation”
    (Marc Overmars)
    Water Adviser, SOPAC Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission
  • Paper 3: “Funding Water Sector Adaptation in the Post-2012 Regime – Scenarios for after Kyoto”
    (Richard Connor)
    Chief Scientific Officer, Unisfera International Center