High Level Dialogue: Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific - A Development Challenge

ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 16-17 June 2009

DAY 1, 16 June 2009

08:00	Registration

08:55 – 09:00	Opening Film

09:00 – 09:05	Opening Ursula Schaefer-Preuss Vice President, Knowledge and Management and Sustainable Development, Asian Development Bank

09:05 – 09:15	Welcome Remarks Haruhiko Kuroda President, Asian Development Bank

09:15 – 09:25	Setting the Theme Rajendra K. Pachauri Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chair, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, India

09:25 – 09:30	Special Address through video Ban Ki-moon Secretary-General, United Nations

	Session 1: Global Policy Challenges for Sustainable Development and Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

09:35 – 09:55	Keynote Speech 1 Kun Goh Former Prime Minister, Republic of Korea

09:55 – 11:30	Asia Pacific Challenge - Overview Chair: Nitin Desai Former Under Secretary General, United Nations Speakers: Rajendra K. Pachauri Director General, TERI, India Hideki Minamikawa Director General, Global Environment, Ministry of the Environment, Japan Khempheng Pholsena Minister In-charge of Water Resources & President, Lao National Mekong Committee, Lao PDR Rachmat Witoelar State Minister for the Environment, Government of Indonesia Mohamed Aslam Minister, Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives Bindu N. Lohani Vice President, Finance and Administration, Asian Development Bank Maurice Strong Honorary Prof., Peking University and Chairman, Earth Council, Canada

11:30 – 11:45	Tea/Coffee Break

11:45 – 13:15	Panel Discussion on: "Mainstreaming Climate Change; Global, Regional and National Policy Challenges" Moderator: Craig Hart Counsel, Alston + Bird LLP, USA Speakers: Emil Salim Advisor to the President for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Indonesia Shigeru Kiyama Senior Special Advisor for Climate Change, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Japan Chad O. Holliday, Jr. Chairman and CEO, DuPont, USA Ira Magaziner Head of Clinton Foundation, USA

13:15 – 14:45	Lunch Break

	Session 2: Addressing Climate Change Through Innovative Technologies

14:45 – 15:15	Keynote Speech Innovation of Technology in Asia - Changing Life Maurice Strong Honorary Prof., Peking University and Chairman, Earth Council, Canada

15:15 – 16:45	Panel Discussion Moderator: Craig Hart Counsel, Alston + Bird LLP, USA Speakers: Yoichi Kaya Director General, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Japan Hiroyuki Watanabe Senior Technical Executive, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan Lee Yee-Cheong Chairman of Governing Board, UNESCO International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation, Malaysia Zhou Dadi Director General (Emeritus) of the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, People's Republic of China Lorie Wigle General Manager, Eco-Technology Office, Intel, USA Larry Brilliant Former Executive Director, Google, USA

16:45 – 17:15	Wrap Up and Closing Remarks Nitin Desai Former Under Secretary General, UN

DAY 2, 17 June 2009

	Session 3: Implications for Financing

09:30 – 09:45	Keynote Speech Climate Change Implications for Financial Institutions in Asia Eric Hall Manager, Communications & Media, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Germany

09:45 – 11:15	Panel Discussion Moderator: Craig Hart Counsel, Alston + Bird LLP, USA Speakers: Nitin Desai Former Under Secretary General, UN Vinod Thomas Director General, Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank Reto Schnarwiler Member of Group EC, Risk Management, Swiss Reinsurance Company, Switzerland Kirit Parikh Planning Commission Member (Energy), India Conor McCoole Managing Director, Head of Project Finance, Asia Project & Export Finance Wholesale Banking, Standard Chartered Bank, UK Ursula Schaefer-Preuss Vice President, Asian Development Bank

11:15 - 12:45	Net working Lunch

12:45 – 13:25	Experts wrap-up Nitin Desai and TERI

13:30 – 14:00	Summary of Highlights Rajendra K. Pachauri Director General TERI, India Special Keynote Address Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo President, Philippines

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High Level Dialogue: Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific - A Development Challenge

DAY 1, 16 June 2009

DAY 2, 17 June 2009