The Conference Goals are:
l. Promote an international exchange among business, government,
and non-governmental organizations of experience and information
on government policies and business strategies for improving the
industrial sustainability.
2. By sharing the best practices and proven management tools,
demonstrate the business cases of environmental excellence.
3. Provide an opportunity to establish professional contacts and
further cooperative efforts among participants.
The topics of this
two-days' event will include:
1. Why it is an issue
for the industries to emphasize the environmental performance
evaluation and benchmarking
2. Governmental strategies for environmental performance evaluation
and benchmarking
3. The latest development and trend of eco-efficiency and cleaner
production
4. Environmental performance indicators and benchmarking
5. Financial sector's perspective on environmental performance
and benchmarking.
6. Business cases to industrial sustainability
7. The challenges of Rio+10 for business
8. Climate change and business
9. Sector specific challenges and opportunities of industrial
sustainability in Asia
Agenda
September 17, 2001
18:00-20:00 Welcome
Party
September 18, 2001
8:20-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:40 Opening
9:40 Session 1
Chair: Dr Jyh-Shing Yang, Deputy General Director
Center for Environmental, Safety and Health Technology Development
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
9:40-10:10 Why sustainability performance evaluation and benchmarking
Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
10:10-10:25 Coffee Break
10:25-11:05 From Benchmarking to Eco-Efficiency: examples from
Australia
Professor Rene Van Berkel, Convenor - Western Australian Sustainable
Industry Group, Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production , School
of Resource Science and Technology, Curtin University of Technology,
Australia
11:05-11:35 Application and development of eco-efficiency indicator
in Taiwan
11:35-12:00 Panel Discussion
(To be confirmed)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00 Session 2
Chair: Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
Co-Chair: Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Producer, Center for the Strategy
of
Emergence, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd
13:00-13:30 Development in the investment field in Asia related
to eco-efficiency
Tessa Tennant, Chair, AsrIA, UK
13:30-14:00 Eco-funds in Japan
Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Producer, Center for the Strategy of Emergence,
The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.
14:00-14:30 Eco-Equity Latin Fund for Sustainable Development
Coffee Break Dr. Raimundo Florin, Executive Director, BCSD-Argentine
(Business Council for Sustainable Development of Argentine)
14:30-15:00 Eco-fund of Yasuda Fire and Marine Group
Masaatsu Takehara, Research Officer/Analyst (Environment),
Yasuda Research Institute Co., Ltd.
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:45 The integration of the sustainability concept in asset
management and insurance - the case of Swiss Re
Dr. Thomas Streiff, Head of Group Sustainability Management
Swiss Reinsurance Company Coffee Break
15:45-16:15 Sustainability Reporting
Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
16:15-16:45 Environmental Management Accounting (EMA): Linking
Corporate ESH with Business Value
Fatima Reyes, Chair, Environmental Accounting Committee
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
16:45-17:15 Discussion
September 19, 2001
9:00 Session 3
Chair: Albert E. Fry, Program Manager, WBCSD
9:00-9:30 Voluntary actions by Japanese industries for climate
change mitigation Discussion
Yasuo Hosoya, Director, Environment Research & Development
Tokyo Electric Power Company
9:30-10:00 Green house gas protocol developed by WBCSD/WRI
K. T. Liu, Technical Manager, Environmental & Infrastructure
Group, CTCI Corp., Taiwan, ROC
Lian Bin Liu, Project Manager/Air Quality Management, Environmental
& Infrastructure Group, CTCI Corp., Taiwan, ROC
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Session 4
Chair: Ching-Shu Hsieh, Manager, Uni-President Ent. Corp., Taiwan
10:30-11:00 LG Group's Effort toward the Environmental Sustainability
Dr Joon-Yong Sung, President, LG Institute of Environment, Safety
& Health, Yonsei Engineering Research Center
LG Group, Korea
11:00-11:30 Placing Environmental Issues at the Core of Business
Management, and Shaping the Future Through Environmental Technology
Masayo Hasegawa (Ms.), Project Manager, Environmental Affairs
Division, Toyota Motor Corporation
11:30-12:00 Environmental performance evaluation and benchmarking
for the pulp & paper sector - trends in forest certification
and in wood products and processes
Albert E. Fry, Program Manager, WBCSD
12:00-12:15 Discussion
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15 Session 5
Chair: (To be confirmed)
13:15-13:45 (To be confirmed)
13:45-14:15 (To be confirmed)
14:15-14:45 (To be confirmed)
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 Session 6
Chair: Niven Huang, Secretary General, BCSD-Taiwan
Co-chair: Dr Joon-Yong Sung, President, LG Institute of Environment,
Safety & Health, Yonsei Engineering Research Center
15:00-15:25 Environmental measures in Japanese industries
Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Producer, Center for the Strategy of Emergence,
The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.
15:25-15:50 Cleaner production/pollution prevention in China and
industrial sustainability
Dr. Robert C. Lao, Consultant, RricewaterhouseCoopers,
Residence Project Manager, Canada-China Cooperation Project on
Cleaner Production
15:50-16:15 Strategy for industrial sustainability in Taiwan
Dr Jyh-Shing Yang, Deputy General Director, Center for Environmental,
Safety and Health Technology Development Industrial Technology
Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
16:15-16:40 Environmental challenges for business in south-east
Asia
Dr. Chaiyod Bunyagidj, Vice President, Thailand Environment Institute,
Thailand
16:40-17:00 Discussion
17:00-17:10 Wrap-up
Speakers Introduction
Albert E. Fry
Program Manager, WBCSD
"Environmental
performance evaluation and benchmarking for the pulp & paper
sector - trends in forest certification and in wood products and
processes."
Al Fry is the Program
manager of WBCSD for Natural Resources (Fresh Water, Forests and
Biodiversity) since 1996. He has a professional background in
environment and sustainable development. He prepared 37 case studies
for inclusion in Changing Course, A Global Business Perspective
on Development and the Environment, a publication of BCSD for
the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. During 1992-1995, he was a consultant
to various business and UN organizations. Recent publications
include Business and Climate Change, Case Studies in Greenhouse
Gas Reduction (1997), Industry, Fresh Water and Sustainable Development
(1998), and Partnerships in Practice (2000)
Eiichiro Adachi
Senior Producer
Center for the Strategy of Emergence
The Japan Research Institute, Limited
"Eco-funds in
Japan"
"Environmental measures in Japanese industries"
Eiichiro Adachi is
a senior researcher and head of Eco-business cluster at The Japan
Research Institute, Limited, which was founded in 1989 and sponsored
by companies in Sumitomo group. He majored in mathematical economics
in Hitotsubashi university and participated in many environmental
protecting activities.
After a period as an
industrial analyst, Mr. Adachi is now engaged in environmental
screening for the UBS Japanese Eco-fund. He is the co-author of
"The illustration of environmental problems for business
enterprise". He was a part-time assistant professor in Doshisha
university in 2001, and is
also a member of Asia Pacific Roundtable Cleaner Production (APRCP)
Board of Trustees.
Fatima Reyes
Chair, Environmental Accounting Committee
Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
"Environmental
Management Accounting (EMA): Linking Corporate ESH with Business
Value"
Fatima Reyes is a Certified
Public Accountant from the Philippines. She holds a Master in
Business Administration degree from De La Salle University in
Manila.
Ms. Reyes is the Chair
of the Environmental Accounting Committee of the Philippine Institute
of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA), the national organization
of accountants in the country. She has developed and conducted
environmental accounting-related seminars as part of PICPA's Continuing
Professional Education Program. She has also trained various business
professionals in Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam on environmental
management accounting techniques and approaches. Ms. Reyes was
instrumental in the inclusion of environmental accounting in the
new undergraduate accountancy curriculum in the Philippines.
Also a professor of
accounting and finance in several schools and universities in
Manila, Ms. Reyes is a member of the Steering Committee of the
newly-formed Environmental Management Accounting Network-Asia
Pacific (EMAN-AP).
Dr Joon-Yong Sung
President
LG Institute of Environment, Safety & Health
Yonsei Engineering Research Center
LG Group, Korea
"LG Group's Effort
toward the Environmental Sustainability"
Dr. J. Y. Sung is the
president of LG Institute of LG Institute of Environment, Safety
& Health since 1999. He got the Ph.D. degree of Chemical Engineering
from University of Minnesota, USA, in 1981. He worked for LG-Caltex
Oil Corp. during 1998-1997 as the director of several divisions,
including Technical R&D Center, Production, and Production
Service.
Dr. Sung now is also
the adjunct professor of the School of Environmental Engineering,
Pohang University of Science, and the Department of Chemical Engineering,
Technology and Kyounghee University, in Korea. He is the co-author
of two books, "Energy and Environment" and "Overcoming
National Crisis Through Technological Development".
Dr. Sung is the Chair
of Environment Division, Korean National Expert Council, of Policy
Group, Green Purchasing Network, and of Counterplan Division on
Climate Change Convention, Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Dr Jyh-Shing Yang
Deputy General Director
Center for Environmental, Safety and Health Technology Development
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
Masaatsu Takehara
Research Officer/Analyst (Environment)
Yasuda Research Institute Co., Ltd.
"Eco-fund of Yasuda
Fire and Marine Group"
Masayo Hasegawa(Ms.)
Project Manager, Environmental Affairs Division
Toyota Motor Corporation
"Placing Environmental
Issues at the Core of Business Management, and Shaping the Future
Through Environmental Technology."
Ms. Masayo Hasegawa
is the Project Manager, Environmental Affairs Division of Toyota
Motor Corporation. She joined Toyota Motor Corporation in February
1999 after working twelve years at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation
(a grant-making foundation in Japan) as the program officer in
charge of global environmental issues.
Ms. Hasegawa was also
a visiting research fellow of Keio Research Institute at SFC,
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus where she served as the
National Program Director of LEAD Japan (Leadership for Environment
and Development-Japan) from April 1997 to January 2001. She also
served as the Director of Special Projects-Japan at the Woods
Hole Research Center in Massachusetts (U.S.A) as a voluntary basis
from April 1997 to January 1999.
Ms. Hasegawa received
a bachelor's degree in sociology from Kwansei Gakuin University
in Japan and a master's degree in international relations with
a focus on global environmental policy from the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in the United States.
Dr. Raimundo Florin
Executive Director
BCSD-Argentine
(Business Council for Sustainable Development of Argentine)
"Eco-Equity Latin
Fund for Sustainable Development"
Professor Rene Van
Berkel
Convenor - Western Australian Sustainable Industry Group
Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production
School of Resource Science and Technology
Curtin University of Technology
"From Benchmarking
to Eco-Efficiency: examples from Australia"
Professor van Berkel
holds the inaugural position as Chair in Cleaner Production at
Curtin University of Technology. He manages the Centre of Excellence
in Cleaner Production - a state government initiative to promote
Cleaner Production and Eco-Efficiency through technical assistance,
professional development, information dissemination and policy
dialogue. He also convenes the Western Australian Sustainable
Industry Group - a network of business, public sector, environmental
and engineering professionals dedicated to a cleaner and more
competitive Western Australia.
Professor van Berkel
has 13 years experience in Cleaner Production research, training
and consultancy, mainly in Europe, Asia and Australia. His research
interest has been in the development and evaluation of tools and
strategies for promoting the uptake of Cleaner Production and
Eco-Efficiency in particular among small to medium sized enterprises.
Professor van Berkel
holds a BAgrSci and MAgrSci in Environmental Sciences and Engineering
from Wageningen Agricultural State University (The Netherlands)
and a PhD in Environmental Sciences from University of Amsterdam
(The Netherlands).
Dr. Robert C. Lao
Consultant, RricewaterhouseCoopers
Residence Project Manager,
Canada-China Cooperation Project on Cleaner Production
"Cleaner production/pollution
prevention in China and industrial sustainability"
Dr. Tauni Sanchez
WBCSD
Program Manager
"Why sustainability
performance evaluation and benchmarking"
"Corporate environmental and sustainability reporting"
Tauni is the program
manager for the Sustainable Development project at the WBCSD;
the project includes 26 of the worlds' largest companies. The
goal of the SDR project is to improve Sustainable Development
reporting of WBCSD members.
Tauni has been active
in the area of environmental economics for almost 10 years. She
finished her Ph.D. thesis on the economic impact of international
environmental policy at the university of St. Gallen in Switzerland
in International Environmental Economics.
She is a qualified
investment banker, specializing in fixed income, structured finance
and asset/ liability management. Tauni's most recent appointment
prior to joining WBCSD, was as Managing Director of the Dow Jones
Sustainability Group Index in Zurich, Switzerland.
Tessa Tennant
Chair, AsrIA
UK
"Development in
the investment field in Asia related to eco-efficiency"
For the last 13 years
Tessa has worked in the social investment business and launched,
in 1988, the UK's first equity investment fund for sustainable
development, now known as the Jupiter Ecology Fund.
In mid-1997, Tessa
began working on social investment in the Asia Pacific region.
The NPI Global Care Asia Pacific Fund was launched in July 1998.
At the end of 2000 she co-founded ASrIA, The Association for Sustainable
and Responsible Investment in Asia, an independent not for profit
membership group for the region.
She has previously
served on other environmental advisory panels for the UK Government
and HRH The Prince of Wales and was co-founder and Chair of the
UK Social Investment Forum, 1993-1997.
Dr. Thomas Streiff
Head of Group Sustainability Management
Swiss Reinsurance Company
"The integration
of the sustainability concept in asset management and insurance
- the case of Swiss Re"
Thomas Streiff is heading
Swiss Re's Group Sustainability Management. His major tasks cover
the representation of Swiss Re's environmental commitment, technical
support of underwriters, portfolio managers and clients in environmental
and ethical issues, coordination of the internal and external
sustainability communication and coaching of Swiss Re Group in
the implementation and maintenance of environmental management.
Before joining Swiss
Re in 1997, Thomas was for 2 years technical advisor for a natural
resource management project in India. Earlier, he worked as risk
manager with Swiss Re. His responsibilities included the development
of comprehensive rating systems and related data bases for the
use of casualty risk assessment of different industries. From
1991-1993 he had an assignment as project advisor of a large development
program in Tanzania. He is visiting lecturer at Swiss Federal
Institute for Technology (ETH Zurich) at the Postgraduate Course
for Developing Countries.
Yasuo Hosoya
Director
Environment
Research & Development
Tokyo Electric Power Company
"Voluntary actions
by Japanese industries for climate change mitigation".
Mr. Yasuo Hosoya acquired
Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the Tokyo University
and entered The Tokyo Electric Power Company Inc.(TEPCO) in 1961.
He was Assigned as
General Manager of Environment Department of TEPCO in 1993, and
since then, deals in planning and development of TEPCO's environmental
policies and measures toward such issues as climate change mitigation,
waste management and recycling, air pollution prevention, environmental
management and so on.
Hosoya is now chairing
Keidanren's (Japan Federation of Economic Organization) Task Force
on Climate Change and FEPC's (Federation of Electric Power Companies)
Commission on Environment.
Also Hosoya was appointed
as one of the Lead Authors to the IPCC Special Report on Methodological
and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer and of the Expert
Reviewers to the IPCC Third Assessment Report.
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