As of Nov 12th, 2017

NIES/ IGES/UTM/MHIR/E-konzal
COP23 Japan Pavilion Side Event
Make Asian Cities as Low Carbon Champions- supporting city-to city collaboration among Japanese and Asian cities
Date: 17:30-18:15, Nov 13 (Mon), 2017
Venue: Japan Pavilion
Japan supports Asian cities to develop low carbon planning and implementation under
several schemes. AIM team supports to develop low carbon action plan of cities in Vietnam,
Indonesia, Cambodia and supports know-how transfer of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’sbuilding climate action to cities in Malaysia and Vietnam. IGES supports Semarang inIndonesia to apply know-how of renewable energy and public transportation in Toyama city.
We will share local climate actions on the ground and discuss about how to enhance “GlobalClimate Action”.
Opening remarks and Keynote presentation
Opening Remarks by Mr. Hiroshi Ono, Deputy Director General, MoEJ, Japan
Welcome Remarks by Datuk. Zaini Ujang, Secretary General, Kettha, Malaysia
Welcome Remarks by Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, IGES, Japan
Keynote presentation by Ismail Ibrahim, Chief Executive, Iskandar Regional DevelopmentAuthority (IRDA), Malaysia
Introduction of “LoCARNet Bangkok Declaration”, by Tomoko Ishikawa, IGESLCS scenarios, enable implementations, diffusion scheme
How Malaysian Cities develop LCS scenarios and take actions, by Prof. Ho Chin Siong, UTM
Deliver “Building Energy/GHG monitoring/reporting scheme” to Asia, by Kaoru Nakanishi,
Deputy Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Government
How to make cities low carbon through JCM scheme by Toshiyuki Yamazoe, Senior Advisor,
Toyama City
What is next challenge to achieve Low Carbon and Sustainable cities, by Ha Minh Chau, ViceManager, Ho Chi Minh City
Discussion and Next StepsFacilitator: Junichi Fujino, Programme Director/Senior Researcher, IGES/ NIES
Contact person: Junichi Fujino (fujino@iges.or.jp/fuji@nies.go.jp)

NIES/ IGES/UTM/MHIR/E-konzal
COP23 Japan Pavilion Side Event

Make Asian Cities as Low Carbon Champions- supporting city-to city collaboration
among Japanese and Asian citiesDate: 17:30-18:15, Nov 13 (Mon), 2017
Venue: Japan Pavilion

Opening Remarksby Mr. Hiroshi Ono
Deputy Director General, MoEJ, Japan
Welcome Remarks
by Datuk. Zaini Ujang
Secretary General, Kettha, Malaysia
Welcome Remarksby Prof. Kazuhiko TakeuchiPresident, IGES, JapanKeynote presentation
by Ismail Ibrahim, Chief Executive,Iskandar Regional Development
Authority (IRDA), Malaysia

Introduction of“LoCARNet Bangkok
Declaration”
by Tomoko Ishikawa, Secretary
General of LoCARNet, IGESLCS scenarios, enable
implementations, diffusion
schemeHow Malaysian Cities develop LCS scenarios
and take actions
by Prof. Ho Chin Siong, UTM
Deliver “Building Energy/GHG
monitoring/reporting scheme” to Asia
by Kaoru Nakanishi, Deputy Director, Tokyo
Metropolitan Government
How to make cities low carbon through JCM
schemeby Toshiyuki Yamazoe, Senior Advisor, Toyama
City
What is next challenge to achieve Low Carbon
and Sustainable cities
by Ha Minh Chau, Vice Manager, Ho Chi Minh City

Discussions andNext Step
Ismail Ibrahim
Chief Executive, IRDA, Malaysia
Ha Minh Chau
Vice Manager, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Yuko Nishida
Manager, Renewable Energy Institute, Japan

Junichi Fujino
Programme Director, City Taskforce, IGES, Japan
Senior Researcher, NIES, Japan