Program
April 10, 2012
The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington DC, 20004
Co-Organizers
International Fund for China’s Environment
Heinrich Boell Foundation-North America
Research Center for Sustainable Development/ Chinese Academy
of Social Science
Supporting Groups
ESRI Inc, Apex Inc, China Society
Chinese Association of Science and Technology-USA
12:00pm Registration and Check in (Lobby of Polaris Room)
1: 00pm-2:15pm Opening Remarks and Keynote Speech (Polaris Room)
Moderator: Chris Williams, Director of the UN-Habitat Office in Washington
Opening remarks
- Dr. Ping He, President, International Fund for China’s Environment
- Dr. Inês Magalhães, National Secretary of Housing, Brazilian Ministry of Cities
Keynote speech
- Ms. Marianne Fay, Chief Economist, Sustainable Development Network
2:15pm-4:00pm Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 1 Sustainable Urbanization -Best Practices and Successful Models
(Polaris Room)
Moderator: Barbara Bramble (Senior Advisor, International Climate and Energy Program, National Wildlife Federation)
- Rose Niu, Managing Director, China Program, WWF-US, WWF’s low carbon initiative in China
- Dr. Vicente del Rio, Professor, City and Regional Planning Department, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, Sustainable Practices in Brazilian Contemporary Urbanism
- Dr. Xiang Yu, Sr. Research Scientist, Institute for Urban & Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Low carbon city development in China, pilot studies in Guangyuan and Guangyuan
- Claus Dunkelberg, P.E. Business Development Director, Milwaukee Water Council, Integrating corporations and communities, a clean water case in Milwaukee
- Dr. Ernest Jolly, Sr. Program Manager, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Urban Energy – Past, Present and Future
- Dr. Ping He, Director General, China International Engineering Consulting Group, Ecological restoration in rapid urbanization- a case in Longyan, Fujian, China
Session 2 Infrastructure Investment Strategies and Project Selection
Criteria (Hemisphere A, this session will be organized as a panel
discussion)
Moderator: Durwood Zaelke, President, Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development
Panelists:
- Doug Norlen, Policy Director, Pacific Environment
- Katherine Sierra, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute
- Nancy Alexander, Director of the Economic Governance Program, Heinrich Boell Foundation of North America
- Denise Leung, Research Analyst for the International Financial Flows, World Resources Institute
4:15pm-6:00pm Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 3 Innovative Solutions and Approaches (Polaris Room)
Moderator: Dr. Paul Werbos, Program Director, Office of Emerging Frontiers in Research & Innovation, National Science Foundation
- Eric Mackres Senior Researcher and Local Policy Lead, The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Local and community energy efficiency initiatives in US.
- Zedong Jiang, Chairman of China North Engineering Design Academy of Research, Low carbon development practices in Hebei province, China
- Jinglu Li, Chairman, Maowusu Biomass Thermoelectric Company, China, Integrated sustainable industrial chain of carbon absorption, carbon emission reduction and carbon sequestration.
- Steve Jones, President/EFW Development, Raymond Luk, President/Asian Development, Green Energy Enterprise, Pyrolyzer, a new generation of waste-to-energy technology.
- Jianming Wang, General Manager of Huaxin Environmental Development Company , Beijing, China, Innovative approaches in e-waste recycling and re-unitization in Beijing
Session 4 Greening Infrastructure-Standards and Social and
Environmental Safeguards (Hemisphere A, this session will be organized
as a panel discussion)
Moderator: Nora Maccoby, Board Director, Int’l Fund for China’s Environment
Panelists:
- Yuan Tao, Legal Counsel, the Legal Vice-Presidency of the World Bank
- Ping Wang, Senior Client Manager, China Development Bank
- Ben Freeman, Senior Vice President for Sustainability Research and Policy, Calvert Investments, Inc
- Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute
6:00pm-8:00pm Networking Reception ( Sponsored by Esri Inc. )
The event is free and pre-registration is required.
Registration website: www.ifce.org
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Haiya Zhang, IFCE hzhang@ifce.org . 202-822-2141
