Mekong Environment and Climate Symposium 2010
26-27 April, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
SUMMARY PROGRAMME
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Day 1: 26 April, 2010
| Time | Programme |
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
| Opening Session –
Grand Ballroom 1 Chair: Dr. Le Duc Trung, Director General, VNMC |
|
| 9:00-9:15 | Opening speech by Dr. Le Duc Trung, Director General, Viet Nam National Mekong Committee and Member of the MRC Joint Committee for Viet Nam |
| 9:15-9:30 | Welcome address by Mr. Jeremy Bird, CEO, MRCS |
| Key note session –
Grand Ballroom 1 Chair: Dr. Le Duc Trung, Director General, VNMC |
|
| 9:30-9:55 | Keynote
1: The strategy of Viet Nam towards addressing environment
and climate risks |
| 9:55-10:20 |
Mr. Christer Holtsberg, Interim Director of Yunus
Center, AIT |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50-11:15 | Keynote 3: Addressing water pollution in a transboundary river basin Ms. Birgit Vogel on behalf of Mr. Mitja Bricelj, President of the International Commission for Protection of the Danube River |
| 11:15-11:40 | Keynote 4: Scientific assessment in climate change in Mekong River Basin: Issues and challenges Dr Pak Sum Low, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of
Science and Technology, University Kebangsaan Malaysia;
and School of Sustainable Development, Bond University,
Australia |
| 11:40-12:00 | Q&A Moderator: Trine GlueDoan |
| 12:00-13:30 | LUNCH |
| Parallel sessions: Thematic Session 1 and 2 | |
| Thematic Session 1
– Grand Ballroom 1 Methodology and Tools for Protection of the Mekong Environment. Chair: Ms. Latsamay Sylivong, IUCN, Lao PDR |
|
| 13:30-13:50 | Emerging trends and future challenges for the Lower Mekong Basin countries Dr. Anond Snidvongs, Southeast Asia START Global
Change Regional Center |
| 13:50-14:10 | Environmental monitoring in the Mekong River, lessons learned and future challenges Dr. Vithet Srinetr, Environment programme, MRCS
|
| 14:10-14:30 |
Dr. Narumon Sangpradub, Khon Kaen University |
| 14:30-14:50 | Wastewater treatment through wetland construction and effective wetland restoration Ms. Pauline Gerrard, WWF Greater Mekong Programme |
| 14:50-15:20 | Coffee Break |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Dr. Do Nam Thang, Head of Environmental Science,
Institute of Science of Environmental Management, Vietnam
Environment Administration, Ministry of Natural Resources
and Environment |
| 15:40-16:00 | Wetlands governance in the Mekong Basin: Challenges, recent progress and the way forward Mr. Robert Mather, Head of Country Group 1, IUCN
Asia Programme, Lao PDR |
| 16:00-17:00 | Discussion Moderator: Vitoon Viriyasakultorn |
| Thematic Session 2
– Grand Ballroom 2 Environmental knowledge sharing for the Mekong River Chair: Dr. Lisa Schipper, SEI |
|
| 13:30-13:50 |
Mr. Florian Moder and Mr. Kai Wiegler, GTZ |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Dr. Bach Tan Sinh, Director, Ministry of Science
and Technology, Vietnam |
| 14:10-14:30 | Achievements and challenges of public participation for environmental protection Mr. Tek Vannara, CEPA, Cambodia |
| 14:30-14:50 | Development strategies for dissemination of official statistics towards climate change Dr. Samaychanh Boupha, Director General, Department
of Statistics |
| 14:50-15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20-15:30 | Short statement by Mr. Hans Guttman, Wetland Alliance |
| 15:30-15:40 | Short statement by Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen, NGO Climate Change Working Group, Viet Nam |
| 15:40-17:00 | Panel discussion Moderator: Trine GlueDoan |
Day 2: 27 April, 2010
| Time | Programme |
| Parallel sessions: Thematic Session 3 and 4 | |
| Thematic Session 3
– Grand Ballroom 1 Bridging environmental policy, decision makers and stakeholders on Mekong environmental protection and conservation plans of action Chair: Dr. Bach Tan Sinh, Viet Nam |
|
| 8:30-8:50 |
Ms. Phakkavanh PHISSAMAY, Assistant to Director
General of ESIA Department, Director of Planning and
Finance Division, WREA, Lao PDR |
| 8:50-9:10 | EIA,
SEA and TbEIA application in Thailand |
| 9:10-9:30 | EIA
and SEA experiences in Viet Nam |
| 9:30-9:50 | SEA
for North South Economic Corridor |
| 9:50-10:20 | Coffee break |
| 9:50-10:20 | Side event: Using Biosphere Reserves as Learning Laboratories for Sustainable Development Dr. Nguyen Hoang Tri, Director, Center for Environmental Research and Education, Hanoi National University of Education |
| 10:20-10:40 | Third party monitoring of Northern Economic corridor road project Ms. Latsamay Sylivong, Country Representative,
IUCN, Lao PDR |
| 10:40-11:00 |
Ms. Sandra Ruza, Expert Adviser, Secretariat to
Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary
Context (Espoo 1991) |
| 11:00-12:00 | Discussion Moderator: Trine GlueDoan |
| Thematic Session 4
– Grand Ballroom 2 Preparedness and Adaptive Capacity to the Mekong Environmental Changes and Climate Risks Chair: Dr. Vithet Srinetr, MRCS |
|
| 8:30-8:50 | Best practice for climate vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning Dr. Lisa Schipper, Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment
Institute |
| 8:50-9:10 | Understanding Vulnerability to Climate Change and Adaptive Capacity Dr. Charles Ehrhart, Climate Change Coordinator,
CARE International, Vietnam |
| 9:10-9:30 | CCAI
framework for vulnerability assessment and adaptation
planning for local demonstration sites |
| 9:30-9:50 | Integrated
management of the Red River Basin and the Mekong Delta,
Viet Nam |
| 9.50-10.20 | Coffee Break |
| 9:50-10:20 | Side event: Using Biosphere Reserves as Learning
Laboratories for Sustainable Development |
| 10:20-10:40 | Community
based preparedness and adaptation to climate change
and other environmental risks |
| 10:40-11:00 | Food
Security, Livelihood and Rural Development in Climate
Change context in the Mekong Delta of Viet Nam Dr. Nguyen Van Sanh, Mekong Delta R & D Institute (MDI), Can Tho University |
| 11:00-12:00 | Discussion Moderator: Vitoon Viriyasakultorn |
| 12.00-13.30 | LUNCH |
Thematic Session
5 – Grand Ballroom 1 |
|
| 13:30-13:50 | Bridging
the global, regional and local environmental collaboration
|
| 13:50-14:10 | Knowledge hub for climate change adaptation in Asia and the Pacific Director General, Ahmad Jamalluddin Shaaban National
Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia – NAHRIM |
| 14:10-14:30 | The next phase of the MRC collaboration Mr. Jeremy Bird, CEO, Mekong River Commission
Secretariat |
| 14:30-14:50 | Local direction and regional impact; how to link local and regional efforts in wetland management Mr. Hans Guttman, Wetland Alliance |
| 14.50-15.20 | Coffee break |
| 9.50-10.20 | Side event: Using Biosphere Reserves as Learning Laboratories for Sustainable Development Dr. Nguyen Hoang Tri, Director, Center for Environmental Research and Education, Hanoi National University of Education |
| 15:20-15:40 | NGO collaboration in promoting community based adaptation and sustainable development Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen, NGO Climate Change Working Group, Viet Nam |
| 15:40-16:00 |
Dr. Jim Falk, Asia Pacific Rim University |
| 16:00-17:00 | Discussion Moderator: Trine GlueDoan |
| Closing – Grand
Ballroom 1 Chair: Mr. Jeremy Bird, CEO, MRCS |
|
| 17:00-17:5 | Summary of the conference Dr. Pornsook Chongprasith, Director, Environment Division, MRCS |
| 17:15-17:30 | Closing Dr. Le Duc Trung, Director General, VNMC |
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