Event: Symposium on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (17 Jan 2014)

Symposium on the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Friday, 17 January 2014, 13:00 - 18:00

Post-2015 Development Agenda – For Integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Post Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

Venue: Iino Conference Center 4F Room 4 
Iino Building, 2-1-1 Uchisaiwaicho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0011

Organizers: Tokyo Institute of Technology
(S-11 of the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund, Ministry of the Environment of Japan)

Co-organizers: Beyond MDGs Japan / Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo / Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University / Institute for Global Environmental Strategies / United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies

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Event DescriptionEvent language: Japanese

The 2015 deadline for achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is fast approaching. In this context, there is an accelerated pace of international discussions on global development goals and related issues after 2015. Discussions are focusing on comprehensive and integrated sustainable development goals consistent with the focus and effort of the MDGs, and responding to new and emerging challenges to contribute to the setting of the post-2015 development agenda.

The aim of this symposium is to contribute to considerations of the post-2015 agenda from both development and environment perspectives, as well as consideration of integrated goals for achieving sustainable development, in order to improve the global environment and human well-being.

Symposium website

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Programme

MC: Yumiko Nozaki (Freelance announcer, Lecturer at the TV Asahi Announcer School)
12:30 - 13:00	Registration
13:00 - 13:10	Opening RemarksYoshinao Mishima (President, Tokyo Institute of Technology) Soichiro Seki (Director-General, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment of Japan)
13:10 - 13:30	Project On Sustainability Transformation beyond 2015 (POST2015)Norichika Kanie (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology / Senior Research Fellow, The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies / Project Leader of POST201)
13:30 - 14:15	Keynote Speech: Japan’s Vision for the Post-2015 Development Agenda(TBD)Keizo Takemi (Member of the House of Councillors)
14:15 - 14:30	Break
14:30 - 16:00	Session 1. Energy, Water and Food NexusChair: Hideyuki Mori (President, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies)	Session 2. Public Health and UrbanizationChair: Masaki Inaba, (Secretary General, Ugoku/Ugokasu, (GCAP Japan))	Session 3. Education and SDGsChair: Yuto Kitamura, (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo)
16:00 - 16:15	Break
16:15 - 17:50	Wrap-up Session (Report from each session)Chair: Norichika Kanie Panellists: Surendra Shrestha (Director, International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)) Hiroto Arakawa (Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development) Hikaru Kobayashi, Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University (Former Vice-Minister of the Environment, Ministry of the Environment, Japan) Q&A
17:50 - 18:00	Closing Remarks:Tamotsu Nakasa (Secretary General, Steering Committee of Beyond MDGs Japan / National Center for Global Health and Medicine)
18:30 - 20:00	Reception (TBD) @ Iino Conference Center 4F Room C *Reception fee payable at the door

* This programme is subject to change.

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Contact
POST2015 (S-11) Secretariat
Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1 NE-30, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552
E-mail: info[at]post2015.co.jp, TEL & FAX: +81-3-5734-2906

Registration is free and open to the public. Please register from the symposium registration page.

for more information: http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=8&ddlID=2871