Title, Date
JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI) International Seminar 2025
Date of Seminar
Thursday, February 5, 2025
Language of Seminar
- 1 . Blue Stage; Japanese, English and French (simultaneous interpretation available)
- 2 . Green Stage; Japanese and English (simultaneous interpretation available)
Date of Online Exhibition
Monday, January 27 - Friday February 7, 2025
Number of participants
Online (Eventos): 642 participants (324participants from 88 countries)
On Venue: 61 participants (from 16 countries)
Organizer
JICA
Venue
JA KYOSAI Building Conference Hall (2-7-9, Hirakawa-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)
Seminar Outline
The “JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI)” contributes to building a sustainable society that can realize a healthy environment and protect the health and living environment of people in partner countries by promoting environmental measures such as waste management and water and air pollution control. JCCI also enhance the transition to a Net Zero society in partner countries.
In this seminar, we invited several speakers including the Japanese central government, local governments, universities, private sector, research institutions, as well as governmental agencies of partner countries, organizations and institutions involved in development cooperation, to share examples of "clean cities" realized through support from Japan. The seminar included discussions on science, technology, international cooperation, and sustainable development towards the realization of Net Zero societies, and sound material-cycle societies. Japanese companies‘ business pitches were presented at the Green Stage. In addition, for future collaboration and networking, the seminar included online exhibits to provide an opportunity for Japanese companies to introduce their outstanding products and technologies related to environmental management and climate change.
Program
The seminar was held simultaneously in the Blue Stage and the Green Stage on February 5, 2025.
Blue Stage
| 10:00-10:20 | Opening Remarks | - Ms. MIYAZAKI, KATSURA (Executive Senior Vice President / Chief Sustainability Officer of JICA) - Mr. DOI, KENTARO (Director-General, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan) |
| 10:20-10:50 | Achievements to date and future developments of JCCI | - Mr. SHIBATA, KAZUNAO, Deputy Director General, Global Environment Department, JICA |
| 11:00-12:30 | Urban climate action and pursuit of Synergy | - Mr. SUGA, YOSHINORI (Director for Sustainable Infrastructure, Ministry of the Environment, Japan) - Dr. TEBAKARI, TAICHI (Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chuo University) - Ms. SERMSOOK NOPPUN (Director, Air Quality and Noise Management Division, Department of Environment, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration) - Mr. KATO, MAKOTO (Member, Board of Directors, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center) - Mr. NAKAMURA, YASUAKI (Director for Global Network Promotion Division, International Affairs Bureau, City of Yokohama) Moderator: Mr. MASATO KAWANISHI (Senior Advisor, JICA) |
| 13:30-15:00 | Toward industry-academia-government collaboration and initiatives to realize a circular economy |
- Mr. MATSUURA, KO (Assistant Director, Office for Promotion of Sound Material-Cycle Society, Environmental Regeneration and Material Cycles Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan) - Mr. KOJIMA, MICHIKAZU (Senior Research Fellow on Environmental Issues, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization) - Dr. SUJITRA VASSANADUMRONGDEE (Senior Researcher, Sustainable Environment Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University) - Dr. LAI VAN MANH (Director of Department of Economics of Natural resources and Environment, ISPONRE) - Mr. CRISPIAN LAO (Founding President, PARMS Inc.) - Mr. KITADUME, KAZUTAKA (Executive Officer, ENVIPRO HOLDINGS Inc.) Moderator： Mr. ADACHI, ICHIRO (Senior Expert for Environmental Management, Global Environment Department, JICA) |
| 15:00-17:00 | Efforts for waste management in Africa toward TICAD9 |
- Mr. MINE, NAOKI (Senior Deputy Director, Africa Department, JICA) - Ms. JINNO, SHIHO (Associate Programme Management Officier, UN-Habitat) - Ms. JOYCE KLU (Circular Economy & Waste Sector Expert, European Investment Bank) Moderator: Ms. TSUCHIHATA, IZUMI (Senior Deputy Director, Global Environment Department, JICA) - Mr. SAITO, MASAHIRO (Project Manager, Material Cycles and Waste Management, International Division, Yachiyo Engineering CO., ltd.) - Mr. GOSAI HAMDALLA (Director of Waste Management Department, Higher Council for Environment and Natural Resources: HCENR) - Mr. LOPIA LUBANG DAVID (Deputy Director of Public Health Department, Juba City Council Munuki Block) Moderator： Ms. KIMURA, YUMI (Senior Director, Global Environment Department, JICA) |
| 17:00-17:20 | Wrap-Up (Sharing outcomes from each session) |
- Mr. IWASAKI, EIJI (Senior Advisor to Director General of Global Environment Department, JICA) |
| 17:20-17:30 | Closing Remarks | - Mr. KAWAMURA KENICHI, Senior Vice President, JICA |
* Videos of this seminar are available on YouTube (in Japanese, English, and French).
Green Stage
| 11:30-13:30 | Next actions toward the Plastics Treaty | - Mr. MAESHIMA, KOJI (Deputy Director, Global Environment Department, JICA) - Mr. FELIPE DALL‘ORSOLETTA (Programme Manager, UNEPIETC) - Ms. WATANABE, YOKO (Director, Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department of ADB) - Dr. ISOBE, ATSUHIKO (Professor, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics Center for Ocean Plastic Studies, Kyushu University) - Mr. TSUKIJI, MAKOTO (JICA Expert in Thailand) - Mr. SAIMONE VUKI (President, Tonga Recyclers Association) - Mr. NILESH CHATHURANGA SENARATHNA (Executive Officer, Eco Spindles Pvt Ltd, ) - Ms. HAYASHI, MIHO (Program Manager, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)) Moderator: Ms. ONUMA, YOKO (Advisor (Waste Management), Global Environment Department, JICA) - Mr. SHIBATA, KAZUNAO (Deputy Director-General, Global Environment Department, JICA) |
| 15:00-17:00 | Presentation on products and technologies by Japanese Companies | Introduction of products, technologies and services from from 12 private companies (ex. Environmental Pollution Control Technology with Climate Change Measures, Advanced Technology using DX/Innovation) by Japanese companies. |
* Videos of this seminar are available on YouTube (in Japanese and English).
Online Exhibition
7 private companies, including those made presentation at Business Pitch, exhibited online on a special website (via online platform Eventos). Various materials (videos, PDFs, etc.) were displayed on the platform, as well as online communications (chats) between companies and participants were held (January 27-February 7).
Background/Purpose
The JICA Global Agenda (JGA) is a business strategy in 20 thematic areas carried by JICA to contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in 2030 and to realize the principles that Japan aims to achieve through development cooperation such as “human security”, “quality growth” and “addressing global issues”. JGA on Environmental Management is called the “JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI)”, an initiative to support capacity building of governmental organizations in partner countries to prevent environmental pollution in order to create clean cities for the healthy lives of its people by promoting environmental measures such as waste management and prevention of water and air pollution.
The JCCI international seminar is used as a platform to disseminate and share information on Japan's experiences and technologies to effectively promote "clean cities" in partner countries.
Related Information
Contact
If you have any inquiries, please contact the JCCI Secretariat, via email with an email title “Inquiry for JCCI event”.
E-mail：gegem（@）jica.go.jp
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