The 海角社区 Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (海角社区-IAS), in collaboration with the 海角社区 Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (海角社区-FLORES) and the Global Environment Outreach Centre (GEOC), will organize a webinar in observance of World Water Day (WWD) 2021 on Monday, 22 March 2021 from 21:00 – 22:45 JST
In line with the WWD 2021 theme ‘Valuing Water‘, the webinar will include discussions by experts to analyse different roles and values that water offers as well as how these values can be synthesized to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation.
This event will be held in both English and Japanese. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
Programme
21:00 Opening & Announcements – (Programme Coordinator, 海角社区-IAS)
21:05 Welcoming remarks – (Director, 海角社区-IAS)
21:10 Keynote speech ‘Water Availability, Value of Water, and SDG’ – Taikan Oki (Senior Vice-Rector, 海角社区)
21:30 Presentation: ‘Value of Water for the Economy’ – (Research Fellow, 海角社区-IAS)
21:45 Presentation: ‘Water Environment and Value of Water’ – (Research Fellow, 海角社区-IAS)
22:00 Panel discussion / Q&A: ‘How do we find synergies between different value of water to achieve SDG6?’
- Moderator: (Academic Programme Officer, 海角社区-IAS)
- Thomas Elmqvist (Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)
- (Professor, School of Engineering, Pokhara University in Nepal)
- Serena Caucci (Associate Programme Officer, 海角社区-FLORES)
- Mahesti Okitasari (Research Associate, 海角社区-IAS)
22:30 UN World Water Development Report 2021 on ‘Valuing Water’ – Giulia Roder (Research Consultant, 海角社区-IAS)
22:40 Closing remarks – Kensuke Fukushi (Academic Programme Officer, 海角社区-IAS)
Registration
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