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Environmental Management (JICA Clean City Initiative)

Online [JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI) Kick-off International Seminar]

Seminar Program (Main Hall)

The seminar is held simultaneously in the main hall and the side hall on January 19 and 20.

Main Hall
19th

Opening, Remarks

Mr. YAMADA Junichi, Executive Senior Vice President JICA
Mr. ONO Hiroshi Director, General, Global Environment Bureau Ministry of Environment (MOE)

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Keynote Speech: Japan's Experience and International Cooperation on Environmental Management through JCCI

Dr. Prof. TAKEMOTO Kazuhiko, President, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC)
Japan has developed international cooperation on environmental management with partner countries based on its rich experience in coping with serious environmental pollution.
This keynote presentation will cover the following initiatives:

  • Japan's experience in the field of environmental management, by sharing the report on "Japan's Experience in Urban Environmental Management," which was published by the World Bank in 1994, and "City-to-city Collaboration Programme" with partner countries in Asia,
  • Dynamic development on international cooperation by addressing recently-emerged agenda on sustainability such as circular economy, carbon neutrality and quality infrastructures, and
  • Perspectives for international environmental cooperation through JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI).

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JCCI Case Study (Promoting "Clean Cities" in Vietnam)

Dr. Nguyen The Dong, Vice President of Vietnam Association for Safe water and Environment (AWATEN)

JICA will contribute to the realization of "clean cities" in urban areas of developing countries based on the "JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI)". This seminar aims to share the image of the future realization of the JCCI with the relevant parties, by inviting various people from developing countries' governments, development aid agencies, Japanese local governments, ministries and agencies, etc., to review the good practices from the formulation of policies and plans to the implementation of measures, which were triggered by Japan's cooperation. We will also have discussions on how to create a recycling-oriented society and a low-carbon society for sustainable development in developing countries. It will also provide an opportunity to introduce Japan's excellent products and technologies related to environmental management and climate change, which will contribute to future collaboration and network building.

Ms. Tran Thanh Tam, Deputy head, Foreign Economic Division,Department of Quang Ninh Planning and Investment (DPI)

INTRODUCTION OF QUANG NINH - JICA COOPERATION

Mr. Norihide Tamoto, JICA Expert in Ministry of Construction, Vietnam, & Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan

In sewerage sector, technical cooperation between Japan and Vietnam has been deepened since the signing of Memorandum of understanding (MoU) between both governments in 2010. In this presentation, achievements and future challenges in this field will be summarized and presented.

Mr. Akihiko Haga, Secretary of the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam (Ministry of Environment, Japan)

Environmental Cooperation Between Japan and Vietnam.

Mr. Miyazaki Akihiro, Deputy Director General, Group Director for Environmental Management, JICA

JICA addresses waste, water and air pollution, and other environmental problems that cause health problems to create clean cities.

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Solid waste management in Bangladesh: collective actions towards clean cities

Dr. Md. Sufiullah Siddik Bhuiyan, Executive Engineer, Waste Management Department, Dhaka South City Corporation, Bangladesh

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is the southern part of capital city of Dhaka with an area of 115 skm and population density 29,320 person/skm (BBS). It is mainly entrusted with four major tasks, such as; a) Urban development and maintenance, b) Waste management, c) Health services & promoting awareness program and d) Revenue generation through tax collection.

One of the most challenging and important works is to manage solid waste services by DSCC. It is done through the process of primary collection, secondary collection, transportation and disposal (i.e. door to door collection by PCSP and transferring/deliver to STS, transportation, and disposal to sanitary landfill). For waste collection improvement, the conventional collection methods were modified to be more efficient, and the institution for waste collection within the Waste Management Department (WMD) of the DCC was strengthened. The Clean Dhaka Master Plan (2005-2015) and the New Clean Dhaka Master plan (2018-2032) are the basic guideline towards the clean Dhaka initiatives.

Mr. Amit Datta Roy, Senior Project Officer (Urban Infrastructure), Asian Development Bank (ADB)

This integrated facility has been proposed in the Khulna City Corporation (KCC) of Bangladesh. An estimated 240,000 households (70% of the total households) under KCC will directly benefit from this facility. This state-of-the art facility will comprise a composting plant, a biogas plant, leachate treatment facility as well as controlled landfilling. This facility will be able to recycle and treat solid wastes up to 375 tons/day in an environmentally friendly manner and will save significant amount of GHG emission. Successful completion of this project can be exemplary and can be replicated to other city urban centers in Bangladesh.

Ms. Yuriko Kudo, JICA Expert & Chief Consultant, International Division, Yachiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.

JICA has supported to improve solid waste management in Dhaka since 2000 with various types of assistance schemes, including dispatch of experts, development survey, technical cooperation, grant aid, Japan Debt Cancellation Fund, and Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers. As part of the JICA's support, development of Clean Dhaka Master Plan played an important role to strengthen waste management in the capital of Bangladesh. A series of projects and programs were then launched to materialize and realize the master plan. A participatory waste management, called "Ward-based Approach" has been introduced since the time to strengthen the organizational capacity together with public awareness raising. Currently, a technical cooperation project is being undertaken, and a master plan for both Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation has been prepared to step up their waste management for a sustainable society. The project also covers Chattogram to utilize know-how of the Dhaka's experiences.

Mr. Ken Saeki, Senior Representative, JICA Bangladesh Office

Solid Waste Management process is constituted by waste generation, collection, transportation, treatment, disposal and etc. Nonetheless, sustainable SWM is not achievable only by establishing the process. It should be managed collectively with the aspects of involvement of various stakeholders and employment of multi-disciplinary approaches. In this presentation, an approach taken by JICA in Bangladesh to maximize the outcomes of municipal SWM project is discussed.

Mr. Mitomori, Kohji, Director, Office for Climate Change, Global Environment Department, JICA

Q&A session

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Development under the declaration of carbon neutrality (contribution of the environmental management sector to climate change)

Mr. Junichi Fujino, Programme Director, City Taskforce, The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

SATREPS project "Development of Low Carbon Society Scenarios for Asian Regions" produced "Iskandar Malaysia Low Carbon Society Blueprint 2025" that was adopted by local authority (Iskandar Regional Development Authority) and several outputs during 5 years (July 2011 - March 2016). Research outputs from this project lead other several results, such as "Kuala Lumpur Low Carbon Society Scenario 2030" that shows possible pathways toward 70% GHG intensity CO2 reduction by the year of 2030 and 2050 zero carbon declaration by the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur. This seminar will introduce the essence of this SATREPS project and the reason why we can continue the related low/zero carbon society scenario development in Malaysia and other countries.

Ms. Kamisah Mohd Ghazali, Lead, Resilient Environment, Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), Malaysia

Iskandar Malaysia has adopted the Low Carbon Society Blueprint for Iskandar Malaysia 2025 (LCSBPIM 2025) since2012. It is a research output of Japan's Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development (SATREPS) project. Iskandar Malaysia managed to complete the LCS Development Cycle from Science to Policy, Action and Monitoring in less than 10 years. Based on IMGreenhouse Gas Inventory 2019, Iskandar Malaysia has successfully reduced 19.7% of GHG Intensity. IM also the member of Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCOM) and has received SCORE A: LEADERSHIP the highest band score in 2019 and 2020 CDP Cities Reporting.

Mr. ARIMA Takanori, Executive Director, Environment Bureau, City of Kitakyushu, Japan

Kitakyushu has taken advantage of our experience in overcoming pollution in the development of a number of international projects.

In two thousand ten (2010), we established the Asian Center for Low Carbon Society, which has implemented many projects in collaboration with other cities in Asia.

Introducing Kitakyushu City's efforts toward decarbonization and intercity cooperation with Malaysia Iskandar.

Dr. Kawanishi Masato, JICA Expert

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20th

From projects to sustainable development and progress

Mr. Arturo Gavilán, Director of Research on Contaminants, Chemicals, Wastes and Biosafety, Mexican National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (SEMARNAT)

In Mexico, although the critical situation on air pollution was improved in 1990's, air pollution control has been continuously an important policy issue since the air pollution was expanding to the rural areas. Photochemistry air pollution is mainly caused by Ozone which is produced by photochemistry reaction of NOx and VOCs by ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, it was necessary to develop research on formation mechanisms of such pollutants and countermeasures. To help in finding solutions for that, a SATREPS Project for research cooperation among institutions from Japan (University of Ehime) and Mexico (INECC) was done in order to support local governments in the Three Major Metropolitan Areas of Mexico for the evaluation of the dynamics of VOCs and PM2.5 in the atmospheric environment as well as personal exposure level to VOCs, and elaboration of countermeasure scenarios to mitigate air pollution.

Mr. Luis Reolon, Director of the Environmental Quality Division, Ministry of the Environment, Uruguay

Uruguay is a country with an area of 176,000 km2, and a population of 3: 300,000 habitants. About 1:400,000 habitants are concentrated in the Santa Lucía River Basin, the main source of drinking water for the Capital Montevideo and the metropolitan area.

Consequently, there is a problem of fundamental social, environmental and economic importance due to the contamination of the Santa Lucía River water by point sources such as city waters, industrial waters and by diffuse sources corresponding to agriculture and dairy farming in the basin. Mercury contamination has also been recorded in a very limited site.

In such circumstances, the Government of Uruguay requests technical cooperation from the Government ofJapan, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Between October 2003 and January 2007, the »Project on Capacity Development for Water Quality Management in Montevideo and its Metropolitan Area« was carried out.

After this preparatory study of JICA in November 2007, both governments agreed implement a new technical cooperation project, the »Project on Control of Pollution and Water Quality Management in the Santa Lucía River Basin This cooperation project started in March 2008 and ended in March 2011. The results of this cooperation JICA (Uruguay Japan) led to the development of an Action Plan designed and operated entirely by the current Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay (since March 2013), thanks to the technical knowledge acquired by the JICA cooperation.

The results of this cooperation, the lessons learned and the actions carried out and in execution by the Ministry of the Environment of Uruguay, derived from the JICA cooperation (Uruguay - Japan), will be presented in the exhibition.

Dr. Monthip Sriratana, Senior Advisor, National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT)

Thailand was experiencing serious environmental problems due to industrialization. The first step to solve this problem was JICA's ERTC project.

The history and process of ERTC becoming a research and analysis institution that contributes to sustainable development through the efforts of the Thai government and Japanese experts will be explained.

Mr. Sergio Campos, Water and Sanitation Division Chief, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Dr. Eiji Iwasaki, Director, Global Environment Department, JICA

Q&A session

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Toward a Recycling-Oriented Society and Economy

Mr. ITO Takaaki, Director, Office for Promotion of Sound Material-Cycle Society, Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan

Overview of Measures on Circular Economy in Japan

Mr. Tibor Sztaricskai, Policy Officer at Unit for Environment and Sustainable Resources of the European Commission's Directorate General for International Partnerships

EU policy & action on the circular economy

Dr. YOSHIDA Mitsuo, Senior Advisor, JICA

Waste management in developing countries responds to each of the three basic issues of (i) ensuring public health, (ii) environmentally friendly waste treatment & disposal, and (iii) 3R waste reduction, reuse & recycling. Has evolved in stages. These are also activities aimed at achieving the seven targets and indicators related to waste management in Goal 11 "Sustainable cities & Communities" and Goal 12 "Responsible Consumption & Production" of the SDGs. International cooperation plays a crucial role in further promoting the activities of these issues in developing countries and achieving the SDGs of the world. In addition to supporting the public sector to improve its waste management capacity, new cooperation and partnership with the private sector, which is indispensable for resource recycling and the formation of a circular economy, are required. Future challenges will be described based on past JICA's cooperation experiences.

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Towards sustainable development and carbon neutrality

Ms. Anggi Pertiwi Putri, Planner for Environmental Affairs Directorate, Ministry of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Indonesia

Achieving Indonesia's Net Zero Emission towards A Greener Future and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries

Ms. Woranuch Suaykakaow, Deputy Director General of Department of Environment, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Thailand

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is an environmental leader city in Southeast Asia and is actively working on climate change issues.

BMA has decided to aim for Net-zero emission as a city vision for 2050 in the New Climate Change Master Plan.

Mr. ORII Ryoichiro, Executive Director, Development Cooperation Department, International Affairs Bureau, City of Yokohama, Japan

As part of its efforts in international technical cooperation through public-private partnership, the City of Yokohama is addressing urban issues in various fields through collaboration with cities such as Bangkok and Da Nang in order to achieve sustainable urban development, and providing support at various levels, such as developing master plans and the implementation of technology through business marketing.

In addition to explaining these efforts for sustainable urban development through city to city cooperation, we will also explain the significance and potential of decarbonization and green recovery efforts in cities in developing countries, and the role of cities in contributing to the decarbonization domino effect that transcends national borders.

Dr. ICHIHARA Jun, Chief Advisor, JICA Project in Indonesia

Q&A Session

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Closing Remarks

Mr. ONODERA Seiichi, Senior Vice President, JICA

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