▶  DAY 1: Tuesday 10 February 2009

▷Session 1: The importance of eco-efficient and sustainable infrastructure
  Chairperson: Siva Thampi, Director, Environment and Development Division, ESCAP

This session discusses the concept of eco-efficient and sustainable infrastructure and its importance in developing more competitive and liveable cities

▷Session 2: State of discussion in applied eco-efficiency concepts, methodologies and practice. Chairperson: Masakazu Ichimura, Chief, Environment and Development Policy Section, ESCAP
This session reviews and discusses conceptual frameworks and available methodologies to integrate eco-efficiency criteria into infrastructure development processes.

• Findings of the study for Asia, by Dr. David Ness, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies, University of South Australia, and Acting Manager, Strategic Asset Management, South Australia Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure

• Findings of the study for Latin America, by José Leal, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC

• Findings of the study on current practices in Europe, by Dr. Andrew Flynn and Dr. Peter Feindt, Senior Lecturers, School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University

▷Session 3: Overview of current practices in Asia.
Chairperson: Adnan Aliani, Economic Affairs Officer and Head, Sustainable Urban Development Unit, ESCAP

This session reviews current trends, practices and criteria used to integrate environmental and social aspects into urban infrastructure development processes in Asia, with a view to identifying and assessing strengths and weaknesses of current approaches, and understanding the factors influencing the sustainability of urban infrastructure development patterns.

• Findings of the study on current practices in Asia, by Ranjith Perera, Assistant Professor, School of Environment, Resources and Development, Asian Institute of Technology

• Integrating environmental and energy aspects in urban planning: The experience of Guiyang, China, by Hervé Breton, Senior Sector Specialist, Infrastructure and Urban Development, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)

• Integration in the context of Asia infrastructure development, by Forbes Davidson, Senior Expert, Urban Policy & Planning, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS)

▷Session 4: Overview of current practices in the Americas
Chairperson: Ricardo Jordán, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC

This session reviews current trends, practices and criteria used to integrate environmental and social aspects into urban infrastructure development processes in cities in Latin America, as well in the U.S and Canada, with a view to identifying and assessing strengths and weaknesses of current approaches, and understanding the factors influencing the sustainability of urban infrastructure development patterns.

• Findings of the studies on current practices in the Americas, USA-Canada and Colombia, Ricardo Jordán, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC; Chile and Mexico, José Leal, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC:
  
  
• USA and Canada
• Chile
• Colombia

▶  DAY 2: Wednesday 11 February 2009

▷Session 5: Towards measuring eco-efficiency of urban areas.
Chairperson: Salmah Zacaria, Economic Affairs Officer, Water Security Section, ESCAP
This session will present efforts of the project to advance in terms of measuring the eco-efficiency of urban areas, and discuss potential indicators and approaches.

• Introductory presentations by Lorenzo Santucci, ESCAP, and

• Ricardo Jordán, ECLAC

• Urban indicators and the management of cities, by Peter Newton, Professor, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

▷Session 6: Applying eco-efficiency criteria to infrastructure financing
Chairperson: John Moon, Chief, Transport Policy Section, ESCAP

This session will discuss how eco-efficiency criteria could be integrated into financing mechanisms, how can eco-efficiency criteria be used to develop bankable projects.

• Findings of the study for Latin America, by Ricardo Jordán, ECLAC

• The experience of India, by Sumeet Shukla, Senior Associate, Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (Karnataka) Limited

▷Session 7: Opportunities and barriers to applying eco-efficiency in urban infrastructure Chairperson: Shaoyi Li, Chief, Energy Security Section

This session will identify opportunities arising from the adoption of eco-efficiency criteria in urban infrastructure development, including in addressing climate change, and what is the potential, and what the barriers, to leveraging carbon financing.

• Introductory presentation by José Leal, ECLAC

• Cities in Climate Change Initiative, by Bernhard Barth, Associate Human Settlements Officer, Training and Capacity Building Branch, UN-HABITAT

• Opportunities for CDM and carbon financing in solid waste management, by H. Md. Maqsood Sinha, Waste Concern

▷Session 8: Review of current practices and experiences
Chairperson: Ricardo Jordán, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC

This session and the following one will aim at reviewing current practices and sharing experiences among participating cities, indentifying key challenges and opportunities for installing eco-efficiency principles in the context of the project. The session will review integrated approaches, as well as sectoral experiences. Presentations shall be 10 min each.
Integrated planning

• Bangkok, Thailand
• La Serena and Coquimbo, Chile
• Ulsan, Republic of Korea
• Sorsogon, Philippines

▷Session 9: Review of current practices and experiences (continued)
Chairperson: Brian Williams, Chief, Energy and Transport Section, UN-HABITAT

Buildings

• Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
• Kyrgyzstan

Solid Waste Management

• Singapore
• Quy Nhon City, Viet Nam
• Matale, Sri Lanka

Water

• Labuan, Malaysia
• Danang, Viet Nam