2022.11.14 MON

10:30 - 12:00

Synergetic Actions from ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific towards Sustainable and Carbon Neutral Planet

Organizer

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES)
Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MoEJ)
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)

Seminar abstract

Synergetic Actions from ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific towards Sustainable will be shared with important stakeholders especially Middle East and other regions and we will discuss how to contribute to structure “Carbon Neutral Planet”.

【Agenda of the Event】
Opening remarks and framing presentation

• TAKEUCHI Kazuhiko President, IGES (In person)

Keynote presentation 1: Synergetic actions in Asia-Pacific (video message)

• Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana Executive Secretary, UNESCAP (Video Message)

Keynote presentation 2: Synergetic actions by Ministry of the Environment, Japan

• ONO Hiroshi Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MoEJ) (In person)

Panel Discussion

• Bahareh Seyedi Senior Sustainable Development Officer, UN DESA (In person)
• Chau Loon Wai Senior Lecturer/ Co-Director of Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC),
  UTM (In person)
• Won-Tae Yun President, International Climate and Environment Center (ICEC), Rep of Korea/ Secretary General of the Urban Environmental Accords
  (UEA) (In person)
• FUJINO Junichi Principal Researcher, IGES (In person)

Speakers

【Local Speakers】

• TAKEUCHI Kazuhiko（Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES)） President
• ONO Hiroshi（Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MoEJ)） Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs
• Bahareh Seyedi（UN DESA） Senior Sustainable Development Officer
• Chau Loon Wai（Department of Urban and Regional Planning, UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC), UTM） Senior Lecturer/ Co-Director
• Won-Tae Yun（International Climate and Environment Center (ICEC), Rep of Korea/ Secretary General of the Urban Environmental Accords (UEA)） President
• Suzuka Nakamura Environmental Activist
• FUJINO Junichi（Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(IGES)） Programme Director at Integrated Sustainability Centre

【Online Speakers】

• Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana（UNESCAP） Executive Secretary

Session Summary

The third UN Climate and SDG Synergies Conference “Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” was held in Tokyo on July 2022 (https://www.un.org/en/climate-sdgs-conference-2022).
The Conference was co-convened by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and it was hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, in partnership with the United Nations University (UNU) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The Conference was attended by around 2000 participants, including more than 130 speakers from over 100 countries around the world.
Participants highlighted that synergistic implementation of climate action and the SDGs should be based on:

1. Strengthening the evidence base for synergistic action
2. Convening multi-stakeholder dialogues at all levels,
3. Enhancing integrated planning,
4. Partnerships for transformation,
5. Informing key intergovernmental processes on climate and the SDGs.

In this side event, we will share synergetic actions from ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific towards sustainable development. In addition, we will discuss further how to contribute to structuring a “Carbon Neutral Planet”.

Message and Results

Various synergistic actions on climate change and SDGs have already taken place in ASEAN and Asia Pacific, and through this side event, best practices were introduced to stakeholders in the Middle East and various other regions to discuss building a sustainable and carbon-neutral planet.
In particular, after sharing the outcomes of the“Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” held in Tokyo in July 2022, specific examples of zero-carbon city district development in Kuala Lumpur and information sharing through atmospheric model development targeting Gwangju City were introduced, and a lively discussion ensued, with the need to develop synergistic actions from a more comprehensive approach from a youth perspective being pointed out.

https://www.iges.or.jp/en/events/20221114