Conference & Forum
Asia Pacific Forum on Low Carbon Development Transitioning Towards Sustainable Low-Carbon City Development
29 Nov 2017 - 30 Nov 2017 Changsha, The People's Republic of China
The Asia-Pacific Forum on Low Carbon Technology will showcase global, regional, and country success stories in promoting the development of low carbon technologies. It seeks to spur greater levels of investments in low-carbon technology as well as stimulate both south-south and north-south knowledge sharing. Among the topics to be discussed are recent advanced global low-carbon technologies, lessons for promoting low carbon technology transfer, and investments to support low-carbon city development.
Organizers
- Government of Hunan Province
- National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, the PRC
Agenda
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration Brief meeting with senior officials of the Hunan Government (by invitation only) |
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Opening Plenary Part 1: Welcome Remarks (40 mins)
Part 2: Special Presentations (40mins)
Part 3: Opening Remarks (40mins)
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| 11:00 – 11:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Exhibition of Low-Carbon Technologies Guided tour for participants Vice Governor of Hunan Province accompanies the major guests to attend the exhibition Venue: At Hotel 3A/3 Floors the Terrace |
| 11:45 – 12:50 | Lunch Sponsored by KfW |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Session 1: Policies and Strategies for Promoting LCTs for Low Carbon City Development The session aims to gather insights on effective national policies and strategies that promote low-carbon technology adoption and investment in cities, and support low-carbon city development path. It will focus on introducing successful policies and strategies in different countries and examples of countries encouraging and accelerating the development of LCCs. Session Chair: Mr. Xuedu Lu, Lead Climate Change Specialist, ADB Panelists:
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| 14:00 – 15:10 | Session 2: Low-Carbon Technologies for Cities: A Global Perspective This session aims to set the scene for the Forum, taking into consideration recent global developments and future trend of lowcarbon technologies. It will explore its international impact and highlight the importance of international collaboration in empowering cities to adapt low carbon technologies. Session Chair: Mr. Yongping Zhai, Chief of Energy Sector Group, ADB Keynote Speech: Global Energy Efficiency Indicators of Building and Transportation Sector Mr. Cyril Cassisa, Project Manager, Global Energy Forecast Team, Enerdata, France Panelists:
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| 15:10 – 15:25 | Afternoon coffee break |
| 15:25 – 16:25 | New Energy Leaders Program: Scaling Tomorrow’s Clean Energy Entrepreneurs This session will feature seven leading young clean energy entrepreneurs and innovators that are shaping the future of the clean energy sector in Asia. They will discuss the practical challenges facing clean energy entrepreneurs in Asia, and to help key stakeholders better understand how they can support clean energy entrepreneurship & innovation in Asia. Session Chair:
Panelists: New Energy Leaders |
| 16:25 – 17:35 | Session 3: Experience and Practice in Building Low Carbon Cities This session will share the experience and lessons of selected cities in building LCCs through enhancing investment in LCTs, and discuss how to scale up LCT investment in city planning and development. Representatives of selected LCCs will be invited to share successful cases. Session Chair: Mr. Robert Guild, Director, East Asia Transport and Communications Division, ADB Panelists:
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| 18:30 – 20:00 | Welcome Banquet Hosted by Hunan Provincial People’s Government |
| Time | Program |
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| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration |
| There will be two track round-tables on Day 2. The Grand Ballroom will be divided into two conference rooms. One can accommodate about 300 people and the other 150 people | |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Session 4: Roadshow of Promising LCTs for Cities This session serves as a showcase of available solutions which may have the potential to be further deployed in the Asia-Pacific, and aims to share the most recent deployment of low carbon technologies in urban systems, discuss how low carbon technologies can be adopted by cities and linked to Hunan province, and foster dialogue and collaboration between the PRC and foreign technology providers to gain better understandings of opportunities and challenges in each other’s markets. Session Chair: Dr. Xavier Chen, President, Beijing Energy Club, the PRC Keynote Speech: Overview of Core Low-Carbon Technology for Low Carbon Cities Mr. Yongping Zhai, Chief of Energy Sector Group, ADB Enterprises:
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| 10:30 – 10:50 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:50 – 12:00 | Session 4 (continued): Roadshow of Promising LCTs for Cities Session Chair: Dr. Xavier Chen, President, Beijing Energy Club, the PRC Enterprises:
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| 08:45 – 10:15 | Track Session 1: Promoting Low Carbon Pilot Projects and Near Zero Carbon Emissions To promote low-carbon development, since 2010, the PRC has launched various low-carbon pilot projects in multiple batches in provinces, cities, industrial parks, residential communities and scenic spots. Through these efforts, different modes of innovation have been explored and technologies tailored to local conditions have been developed, accumulating not only samples and parameters but also experiences and lessons learned for achieving the PRC’s overall peaking target. In 2018, the PRC plans to carry out the pilot near-zero carbon emission zone demonstration project to explore the possibility and technical basis of “near-zero emission”. The purpose of this track session is to study how various types of technological innovation and progress can play a key role in low-carbon pilot projects under the guidance of the national mechanism and better support the PRC’s overall target of GHG reduction in the future. Session Chair: Ms. Xiu Yang, Principal, Policy and Regulation Department, National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) Panelists
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| 10:15 – 10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Track Session 1 (continued): Promoting Low Carbon Pilot Projects and Near-Zero Carbon Emissions Projects Panelists:
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| 12:00 – 13:20 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:50 | Session 5: Innovative Financing Instruments for LCT Investment This session will introduce the successful cases of innovative financing instruments in supporting low carbon technology investment, and the challenges to its wide application. Session Chair: Ms. Yao Wang, Director of International Institute of Green Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, and Deputy Secretary-General, PRC Green Finance Committee Panelists:
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| 14:50 – 15:10 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 15:10 – 16:20 | Session 6: The Role of Business in Scaling Urban Low-Carbon Technologies This session will explore how large companies are partnering with cities and other stakeholders to scale development and deployment of urban low-carbon technologies. Presenters from leading large companies will showcase practical examples, and share their learnings and experiences. This will be followed by a discussion about how cities and business can work more closely together, and develop new and more collaborative types of partnerships. Session Chair: Mr. Sasank Goli, Principal Consultant and Director, Ecogy Cleantech Panelists:
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| 13:30 – 16:00 | Track Session 2: Urban Forestry Development Experience Sharing This session will discuss how to, under the framework of ecological development, effectively enhance the sustainable regional forestry development and wetland conservation and restoration, realize the ecological functions of forests and wetlands, facilitate low-carbon city development and promote low-carbon forestry technology and products through technological innovation of forestry carbon sequestration and carbon accounting technologies and methods. Representatives of forestry research institutions and enterprises will share experience in: (1) low-carbon forestry technology innovation and applications; (2) carbon sink forest: planning and design, monitoring and accounting methods and carbon trade. Session Chair: Changzhu Li, President of Hunan Academy of Forestry Part I Expert Report (130 minutes)
Part II Carbon Neutrality Ceremony (10 minutes)
Part III Signing Ceremony of Hunan’s First Batch of Forest Carbon Sink Projects (10 minutes)
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| 16:30 – 17:30 | Closing Plenary Session Chair: Mr. Xuedu Lu, Lead Climate Change Specialist, ADB Part 1: Introduction (5 mins) Part 2: Closing Keynote (20 mins)
Part 3: Closing Remarks (35 mins)
Raffle drawing |
| 17:30 | End of Forum |
