ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Conference Room 4
United Nations Conference Centre
Bangkok, Thailand
26 – 28 November 2014
2014 Policy Dialogue on Energy for Sustainable Development for Asia and
the Pacific
Tentative Programme
Day 1: 26 November 2014 (Wednesday)
08:30-09:00
Registration
09:00-09:30
Open session:
Mr. Shun-ichi Murata, Deputy Executive Secretary, ESCAP
Mr. Athipat Bamroong, Inspector General, Ministry of Energy, Thailand
Mr. Alexander Smirnov, Minister-Counsellor and Deputy Permanent
Representative to ESCAP, Russian Federation
Mr. Tatafu Moeaki, CEO for Finance and National Planning, Government of
Tonga
09:30-10:20
Briefing on the objectives and the programme of the 2014 Policy Dialogue
Mr. Hongpeng Liu, Chief, Energy Security and Water Resources Section,
Environment and Development Division, ESCAP
10:20-10:40
Coffee/tea break
10:40-12:00
Panel Discussion: Energy Situation in Asia and the Pacific: Emerging and
Persistent issues
Objectives: To exchange views on the current energy situation, in
particular some of the emerging and persistent issues that may have
implications on the implementation of the outcomes of the first APEF.
Moderator:
Dr. Shamshad Akhtar, Executive Secretary, ESCAP
Panelists:
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1. Mr. Evgeniy Nadezhdin, Director on Cooperation with International
Organizations, Russian Energy Agency, Russian Federation
2. Mr. Jona Victor, Director General, Ministry of Industry, Mining and
Energy, Cambodia
3. Mr. Zhongying Wang, Deputy Director General, Energy Research Institute
of the National Development and Reform Commission, China
4. Mr. Solomone Fifita, Deputy Director, Secretariat of the Pacific
Community, Fiji
5. Mr. Antonio Della Pelle, Managing Director, ENERDATA, Singapore
12:00-13:30
Lunch
13:30-14:15
Country Perspectives (5 min. each)
1. Armenia
2. Lao, PDR
3. Maldives
4. Sri Lanka
5. Tonga
6. India
7. Bangladesh
8. Kazakhstan
9. Nepal
10. Russian Federation
11. Samoa
12. ENERGIA & Kopernik
Open discussion
14:15-17:00
Session 1:
Integrating Variable Renewable Energy into the Power Sector
Introduction by the secretariat
Country Perspectives (5 min. each)
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Lao, PDR
Sri Lanka
Tonga
Mongolia
Samoa
Coffee/tea break
Panel Discussion
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Objectives: Taking into consideration the introduction by the secretariat
and perspectives expressed by member States, the Panel Discussion will
identify specific challenges and opportunities to address some of these
challenges through regional cooperation.
Moderated by: Mr. Hongpeng Liu, Chief, Energy Security and Water
Resources Section, Environment and Development Division, ESCAP
Panelists:
1. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adjunct Professor-Sustainable Energy and Coordinator,
SE4All Capacity Building Hub, The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI), India
2. Mr. Zhongying Wang, Deputy Director General, Energy Research
Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, China
3. Mr. German Trofimov, Professor, Almaty University of Power and
Telecommunications, Kazakhstan
4. Mr. Qi Guo, Deputy Division Chief, Inner Mongolia Power Co., Ltd.,
China
5. Mr. Viktor Badaker, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Energy
Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Open Discussion
17:15-
Reception (Public Foyer: Ground Floor of UNCC)
Day 2: 27 November 2014 (Thursday)
09:00-11:30
Session 2
Promoting High Efficiency Low Emission Coal Power Plants
Introduction by the secretariat
Country Perspectives (5 min. each)
Coffee/tea break
Panel Discussion
Facilitated by: Mr. Sergey Tulinov, Economic Affairs Officer, Energy
Security and Water Resources Section, Environment and
Development Division, ESCAP
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Objectives: Taking into consideration the introduction by secretariat and
perspectives expressed by member States, the Panel Discussion will identify
specific challenges and opportunities to address some of these challenges
through regional cooperation.
1. Mr. Mikhail Saparov, Head of Laboratory, Krzhizhanovsky Energy
Institute, Russian Federation
2. Mr. Viktor Badaker, Economic Affairs Officer, Sustainable Energy
Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
3. Mr. Keiji Makino, JCOAL, Japan
4. Mr. Joao Aleluia, Consultant, Environment and Development Division,
ESCAP
11:30-13:00
Lunch
13:00-14:00
Open discussion
14:00-17:00
Session 3: APEF Implementation Support Mechanism
Moderated by: Mr. Kohji Iwakami, Energy Security and Water Resources
Section, Environment and Development Division, ESCAP
Objectives: To further discuss the three pillars of the APEF Implementation
Support Mechanism.
(i)
APEF Portal: Demonstration
a. Outcome of the expert group meeting and the progress made
subsequently
b. Feedback
(ii)
Regional Trends Reports
a. Scope of the Regional Trends Report
b. Feedback
(iii)
Policy Dialogues
a. Format and issues
Day 3: 28 November 2014 (Friday)
09:00-10:30
Session 4: Regional and global initiatives in enhancing energy security and
the sustainable use of energy.
Objectives: To exchange views on regional and subregional initiatives with
a view to establish linkages and synergies to the APEF Implementation
Support Mechanism
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1. Mr. Benjamin Heinrich Anton Mohr, Advisor to Executive Director,
Regional Environment Centre for Central Asia, CAREC, Almaty
2. Mr. Beni Suryadi, Programme Officer, ASEAN Centre for Energy, ACE,
Jakarta
3. Mr. Shahzada Khalid Akhlaq Anjum, Acting director, South Asian
Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), Pakistan
4. Mr. Thierry Lefevre, Director, Centre for Energy Environment Resources
Development (CEERD), Bangkok
5. Mr. Amit Kumar, Adjunt Professior-Sustainable Energy and Coordinator,
SE4All Capacity Building Hub, The Energy and Resources Institute
(TERI), India
6. Mr. Rajan Sudesh Ratna, Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Policy and
Analysis Section, Trade and Investment Division, ESCAP
7. Mr. Steivan Defilla, Director, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels
10:30-10:45
Coffee break
10:45-13:00
Wrap-up Session
Discussion:
Facilitated by: Mr. Hongpeng Liu, Chief, Energy Security and Water
Resources Section, Environment and Development Division,
ESCAP
1. Mechanism to move towards identification of solutions in addressing
common challenges.
2. Priority Areas for 2015: Topics of the 2015 Policy Dialogue and the
Regional trends report
3. Roadmap towards the APEF-2: Plan and progress
4. Identification of Focal Points for the development and review of the APEF
Support Mechanism
Evaluation of the 2014 Policy Dialogue
Closing
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