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Eco-efficient Industry
2001 International Conference on the Industrial Sustainability
- Environmental Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking
Co-Sponsors
IDB (Industrial Development Bureau), MOEA, ROC
US-Asia Environmental Partnership (US-AEP)
World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Date:
September 18-19, 2001
Venue location:
The Howard International House, 30 Hsin-Sheng South Road, Sec. 3, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Organizer:
BCSD-Taiwan
Center for ESH Technology Development, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
Contact person:
Niven Huang, Secretary General, BCSD-Taiwan
E-mail: bcsdroc@iplus.net.tw
Tel: +886-2-25501792 Fax: +886-2-25506309
NDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU
MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS

BCSD-Taiwan ROC
The two-days' conference will provide a forum for business leaders, industrialists, researchers, NGOs, and government policy makers to discuss strategies and management tools toward industrial sustainability. Participants will benefit from the opportunity to share experiences with a wide range of international experts from countries around Asia, Europe, and the US. Ultimately, the conference goal is to create a partnership between industry leaders and government to encourage businesses to seek returns on all three aspects of the triple bottom line - economic development, social development, and environmental protection. The conference plans to offer business participants concrete tools, business cases and programs of action to help ensure that profits are delivered in a sustainable manner. The conference will also offer perspectives and strategies for policy makers to help promote industrial sustainability at the corporate and national levels.
Following on-site production, the edited webcast will be continuously aired on the internet under Globalspeak.com, and outreach website productions produced by the US Department of Commerce (DoC) Foreign Commercial Services offices. The webcasting medium allows this positive message to reach an extensive audience of internationally-minded business people around the world.
The conference goals are:
  1. Promote an international exchange among business, government, and non-governmental organizations of experience and information on government policies and business strategies for improving the industrial sustainability.
  2. By sharing the best practices and proven management tools, demonstrate the business cases of environmental excellence.
  3. Provide an opportunity to establish professional contacts and further cooperative efforts among participants.
The topics of this two-days' event will include:
  1. Why it is an issue for the industries to emphasize the environmental performance evaluation and benchmarking
  2. Governmental strategies for environmental performance evaluation and benchmarking
  3. The latest development and trend of eco-efficiency and cleaner production
  4. Environmental performance indicators and benchmarking
  5. Financial sector's perspective on environmental performance and benchmarking.
  6. Business cases to industrial sustainability
  7. The challenges of Rio+10 for business
  8. Climate change and business
  9. Sector specific challenges and opportunities of industrial sustainability in Asia
The distinguished speakers include industrial and financial experts from Germany, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Switzerland, Taiwan, USA, Australia, Canada, Thailand and UK. This event will be a very good opportunity for the participants to communicate with financial sector for the investment strategy in the eco-fund and social responsible investment (SRI). We have invited five experts of eco-fund and SRI to be our speakers. Another very interesting issue is the discussion on the topics of "Challenges of Environment and Sustainability for Business in Asia". We are going to have perspectives from different part of Asia.
Hotel:
Howard Plaza Hotel (15 minutes by shuttle bus)
Superior King, Room Rate NTD 3,900 per night
(Approx. US$ 115, Breakfast included)
The Howard International House (At the venue location)
Standard Single, Room Rate NTD 1,800 per night
(Approx. US$ 55, Breakfast included)
Semi Suite, Room Rate NTD 3,200 per night
(Approx. US$ 95, Breakfast included)

Conference fees: Registration fee 100 US$ (will be charged to all participants)
Agenda
September 17, 2001
18:00-20:00 Welcome Cocktail Party
September 18, 2001
8:20-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Opening
9:30-10:00 Keynote Speech
Sumio Sano, Corporate Executive Vice PresidentSupervising Officer for Corporate Environmental AffairsSony Corporation
10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 Session 1
Chair: Dr Jyh-Shing Yang, Deputy General DirectorCenter for Environmental, Safety and Health Technology Development Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
10:15-10:45 Why sustainability performance evaluation and benchmarking
Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
10:45-11:15 From Benchmarking to Eco-Efficiency: examples from Australia
Professor Rene Van Berkel, Convenor - Western Australian Sustainable Industry Group, Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production , School of Resource Science and Technology, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
11:15-11:45 Strategic Utilization of BASF Eco-efficiency Analysis for the adjustment of product portfolios
H.-P. Gelbke, Senior Vice President of the Department of Product Safety, BASF
11:45-12:15 Panel Discussion
(To be confirmed)
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15 Session 2
Chair: Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
Co-Chair: Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Researcher, Center for the Strategy of Emergence, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd
13:15-13:45 Development in the investment field in Asia related to eco-efficiency
Tessa Tennant, Chair, ASrIA, UK
13:45-14:15 Eco-funds in Japan
Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Researcherr, Center for the Strategy of Emergence, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.
14:15-14:45 Eco-fund of Yasuda Fire and Marine Group
Masaatsu Takehara, Research Officer/Analyst (Environment),Yasuda Research Institute Co., Ltd.
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00-15:30 Sustainability Reporting
Dr. Tauni Sanchez, Program Manager, WBCSD
15:30-16:00 The integration of the sustainability concept in asset management and insurance - the case of Swiss Re
Dr. Thomas Streiff, Head of Group Sustainability ManagementSwiss Reinsurance Company
16:00-16:30 Environmental Management Accounting (EMA): Linking Corporate ESH with Business Value
Fatima Reyes, Chair, Environmental Accounting CommitteePhilippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA)
16:30-17:00 Panel discussion
Chair: Linda L. H. Chen, Senor Specialist, Sustainable Development Division IDB, MOEA, ROC
September 19, 2001
9:00 Session 3
Chair: Albert E. Fry, Program Manager, WBCSD
9:00-9:30 Voluntary actions by Japanese industries for climate change mitigation
Yasuo Hosoya, Director, Environment Research & DevelopmentTokyo Electric Power Company
9:30-10:00 Green house gas protocol developed by WBCSD/WRI
K. T. Liu, Technical Manager, Environmental & Infrastructure Group, CTCI Corp., Taiwan, ROC
Lian Bin Liu, Project Manager/Air Quality Management, Environmental & Infrastructure Group, CTCI Corp., Taiwan, ROC
10:00-10:15 Discussion
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 Session 4
Chair: Ching-Shu Hsieh, Manager, Uni-President Ent. Corp., Taiwan
10:30-11:00 LG Group's Effort toward the Environmental Sustainability
Dr Joon-Yong Sung, President, LG Institute of Environment, Safety & Health, Yonsei Engineering Research CenterLG Group, Korea
11:00-11:30 Placing Environmental Issues at the Core of Business Management, and Shaping the Future Through Environmental Technology
Masayo Hasegawa (Ms.), Project Manager, Environmental Affairs Division, Toyota Motor Corporation
11:30-12:00 Environmental performance evaluation and benchmarking for the pulp & paper sector - trends in forest certification and in wood products and processes
Albert E. Fry, Program Manager, WBCSD
12:00-12:15 Discussion
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15 Session 5
Chair: Yen His Shih, Director, Sustainable Development Division IDB, MOEA, ROC
13:15-13:45 3M's Environmental Performance and Our Future
Daniel Schmid, QEP, EMS-LA, CHMM, EHS Auditing Manager3M/Environmental Technology & Safety Services
13:45-14:15 Leonard Mitchell, Director, Center for Economic DevelopmentSchool of Policy, Planning & Development, University of Southern California
14:15-14:45 (To be confirmed)
14:45-15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 Session 6
Chair: Niven Huang, Secretary General, BCSD-Taiwan
Co-chair: Dr Joon-Yong Sung, President, LG Institute of Environment, Safety & Health, Yonsei Engineering Research Center
15:00-15:25 Environmental measures in Japanese industries
Eiichiro Adachi, Senior Researcherr, Center for the Strategy of Emergence, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.
15:25-15:50 Cleaner production/pollution prevention in China and industrial sustainability
Dr. Robert C. Lao, Consultant, RricewaterhouseCoopers, Residence Project Manager, Canada-China Cooperation Project on Cleaner Production
15:50-16:15 Strategy for industrial sustainability in Taiwan
Dr Jyh-Shing Yang, Deputy General Director, Center for Environmental, Safety and Health Technology Development Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan, ROC
16:15-16:40 Environmental challenges for business in south-east Asia
Dr. Chaiyod Bunyagidj, Vice President, Thailand Environment Institute, Thailand
16:40-17:00 Discussion
17:00-17:10 Wrap-up