Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

Friday, November 23

0900-0930

Welcome Remarks

• Mr. Jerome Pasquier, General Consul of France in Hong Kong
• Mrs. Nancy Hui, Secretary General of HKCPEC
• Mrs. Geneviéve Dubois-Taine, Sustainable Cities Task Force Coordinator

 SCTF Hong Kong Seminar - Welcome Remarks (87.1 kB)

0930-1230

First Session: Jakarta - Water supply : how to implement a sustainable process?

Jakarta has to face major environmental problems and is undergoing an economic crisis. The local authorities try to implement a sustainable water supply process but have to face many various problems. What are the reasons why are concessions so difficult to set up?

Chair:

• Dr. Jing-Sen Chang, Vice-Chairman, the Council for Economic Planning and Development, Chinese Taipei

Discussant:

• Dr. Kusbiantoro, Director, Urban Regional Development Institute of Indonesia

0940-1000

Mr. Kris Tutuko, Technical Director of PDAM Jakarta, representing the Local Authorities.

Description of Jakarta, of the functioning of the urban area; analysis of its actual water supply system; evaluation in terms of environment, effectiveness, affordability for the local authorities and for the inhabitants. The needs and the conditions neccessary for the local authorities to renovate their water supply system : partnerships, financing (investment and management), taking into account the environmental dimension and the social needs?

1000-1020

Mr. Manfred Giggacher, Contracts Manager, Palyja-Ondeo, representing the Enterprise.

Analysis of the local needs, attitude towards the environmental and socialogical dimensions; conditions for the enterprise to set up an agreement on water supply. How does the Enterprise set up and implement an agreement: financial, political and partnerships aspects in the short and the long terms?

1020 - 1050

Coffee Break

1050 - 1130

Dr. Idris Maxdoni Kamil, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Technology, Bandung

Analysis of the present situation in its environmental and social dimenstions; way the environmental and social issues are taken into account in the negotiations; propositions for a comprehensive plan for the sustainability of water supply in Jakarta.

Discussion

1230-1400

Lunch

1400-1730

Second session: Manila - Water supply for poor communities: processes to achieve affordability (short and long term)

Manila has to face important water problems because of the huge increase of its population in the last years, especially a continuously increasing poor population. The government, Metro Manila and private enterprises have set up a particularly interesting process in order to create a sustainable and affordable water supply service for all.

Chair:

• Dr. Margarita Garrido, Director General of the Colombian Institute for Development of Science and Technology Colciencias, PECC Science and Technology Task Force Coordinator, Colombia

Discussant:

• Dr. Benjamin V. Carino, General Manager, Public Estates Authority, Metro Manila, Philippines

1410-1430

Mrs Aloha Samoza, Director IV Environment and Power, Coordinating Council for Private Sector Participation, representing the Government.

Role of the local authorities in the implementation of the public-private partnerships and in the financing decisions: investment and management. Expectations and visions for the future.

1430-1450

Col. Angel Efren J. Agustin, Acting Chief Regulator, Manilad Waterworks and Sewage Services Regulatory Office, representing the Local Authorities.

Presentation of the actual situation after privatisation; developed tools to have a feed back from the vustomers on the services provided by the concessionaires (Public Performance Audit). Expecations and visions concerning the future.

1450-1510

Mrs. Lisette Provencher, Maynilad Water Services Inc., representing the Enterprise.

Manylad is the concessionaire for water and sanitation in the West Zone of Manila. Analysis of the local needs, how MWSI takes into account the environmental and sociological dimenstions; analysis of the affordability dimension; relations with the local authorities; attitude concerning the consulting of the local population and the NGOs; MWSI's economical analysis; analysis of the implemented public private partnership; perspectives.

1510-1540

Coffee Break

1540-1600

Mr. Michael Castaneda, Water and Sanitation project in Paradise Village, Medecins sans Frontieres, representing the Civil Society.

MSF has different programs in Manila, one of them dedicated to water and sanitation. Role and involvement of their associations, inhabitants groups, NGOs in the process : elaboration, implementation and management; their role in the evolution of practices and standards. Evaluation and perspectives.

1600-1620

Dr. Arlene B. Inocencio, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Philippines Institute for Development Studies

A study of the two cases of water services for the poor in Metro Manila. Lessons learned.

1620-1730

Discussion

Saturday, November 24

0900-1230

Third session: Hong Kong - The evolutions of the global environmental awareness and, consequently, the evolutions of the tools needed to achieve sustainability in the field of waste management

For thirty years, Hong Kong has developed a set of sustainable policies, in order to be more and more environment respectful. Consequently, the tools needed to achieve sustainability have been improved step by step. All these evolutions will be analysed through the waste management system.

Chair:

• Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar, President and CEO, International Centre for Sustainabile Cities, Vancouver, Canada

Discussant:

• Dr. Rebecca Chiu, Associate professor, Centre of urban Planning & Environmental Management, The University of Hong Kong

0910-0930

Dr. Albert Koenig, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong

Resource consumption and waste generation in HK.

0930-0950

Dr. Ellen Y. L. Chan, Assistant Director of the Waste Facilities Business Unit, Environmental Protection Department, The Government of the Hong Kong SAR, representing the local Administration

History and report of Hong Kong’s way of taking into account environmental issues in general: 1989 White Paper (strikethrough: Agenda 21, SUSDEV), study on sustainable development. Processes implemented in order to manage waste
in a sustainable way (economical, social, environmental): Waste Reduction Committee (strikethrough), Waste Reduction Framework Plan, implementation of this plan, assessment and evolutions, financing, partnerships...

0950-1010

Mr. C.M. Lin, Hong Kong Productivity Council, representing the local Enterprises.

How and with which tools can enterprises be encouraged to be more eco friendly. The demands and interests of the enterprises, their oppositions and their evolutions related to the demand for more respect towards sustainability (environment, civil society...). What inputs have enterprises brought tto the sustainable process. What evolutions have thus been achieved.

1010-1040

Coffee Break

1040-1100

Mr. Lionel Krieger, Managing Director of SITA Asia

One Enterprise’s point of view : relationships with the local authorities, evolutions of the implemented partnerships, economical aspects and financing. Analysis of the evolutions of the agreements.

1100-1120

Dr. Gordon T.L. Ng, Chief Executive, The Conservancy Association, representing an environmental NGO.

 Hong Kong - Waste Management: Evolutions of global environmental awareness and consequent evolutions (726.32 kB)

1120-1230

Discussion

1230-1400

Lunch

1400-1600

Fourth session : Bangkok - Municipal Solid Waste Management : from public operated to shared management and financing

Bangkok is not facing new waste management constraints: environmental and financing ones with the aim to make it affordable for all. Faced with this situation, the BMA is today evolving in its ways of dealing with these evolutions in order to better implement its waste management actions.

Discussant:

• Assoc Prof Lye Lin Heng, Deputy Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore

1410-1450

M. Michel Valin, Consultant, SOGREAH

Institutional and legislative framework, processes and waste flows related strategy, environmental background and social impacts, private sector participation, financing.

1450-1510

Ms. Benjamas Chotthong, Project Manager, Thailand Environment Institute

Ways environmental issues related to waste management have been taken into account in the Bangkok waste management process. Role played by the environmental NGO community.

1510-1540

Discussion

1540-1600

Coffee Break

1600-1800

Final Round Table

Chair:

• Prof. Peter Hills, Director and Chair Professor, Center of Urban Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Hong Kong.

Discussion between a tripartite forum:

• Dr. Benjamin V. Carino, General Manager, Public Estates Authority, Metro Manila, Philippines.
• Dr. Jing-Sen Chang, Vice-Chairman in the Council for Economic Planning and Development of Chinese Taipei.
• Mr. Michel Valin, Consultant, SOGREAH
• Mrs. Marie-Alice Lallemand Flucher, DEXIA, Senior Vice President
  in charge of Partnerships & external affairs
• Assoc Prof Lye Lin Heng, Deputy Director, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
• Dr. Rebecca Chiu, Associate Professor, Centre of Urban Planning & Environmental Management, University of Hong Kong, P.R. China
• Dr. Nola-Kate Seymoar, President and CEO, International Center for Sustainable Cities, Vancouver, Canada.
• Dr. Margarita Garrido, Director General of the Colombian Institute for Development of Science and Technology Colciencias, Colombia
• Dr. Idris Maxdoni Kamil, Associate Professor and Chairman, Department of Environmental Engineering, Institute of Technology, Bandung,Indonesia
• Dr. Kusbiantoro, Director, Urban Regional Development Institute of Indonesia

 SCTF Hong Kong Seminar - Roundtable (175.23 kB)