Meeting / Workshop

 

Second WEPA International Workshop

23 February 2010, Shiba-Park Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

Program

9:30
Opening Session Chaired by Kensuke Fukushi, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo: WEPA Advisor
9:30
Welcome address Soichiro Seki Director General for Water Environment, Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Japan
9:40
Keynote Speech “Climate Change Adaptation in Water Sector – focusing on water environment” Taikan Oki Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
10:10
Technical Session I
10:10
How can we save lakes affected by Climate Change? Michio Kumagai Research and Information Director, Lake Biwa Environment Research Institute, Japan
10:30
Effects of Climate Change on Lake Tahoe (CA-NV), USA and what this might mean for lakes and reservoirs in Asia S. Geoffrey Schladow Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Director of Tahoe Environmental Research Center, University of California,Davis, USA
10:50
Questions and Answers
11:05
Coffee Break
11:20
Climate Change: Are Small Islands ‘Drowning’? Ahmad Zaharin Aris Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Studies, University Putra Malaysia
11:40
Risk of infectious diseases during flood and drought Toru Watanabe Associate Professor, Dept of Food, Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture Yamagata University, Japan
12:00
Questions and Answers
12:15
Lunch Break
13:30
Technical Session II
13:30
Climate Change Impacts to the Water Environment Takatoshi Wako Deputy Director Water Environment Division, Environmental Management Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
13:50
Climate Change, Water Environment and Freshwater Ecosystems in Korea Namil CHUNG Research Fellow Water Quality Control Center, National Institute of Environmental Research, Republic of Korea
14:05
Progress of Water Environment. Governance /Management and Challenges in Sri Lanka R.W.S.M.Nimal Manorathne Assistant Director, Central Environmental Authority, Sri Lanka
14:20
Climate Change Impacts on Water Environment: Thailand’s Preliminary Study Wijarn Simachaya Deputy Director-General, Pollution Control Department, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Thailand
14:35
Questions and Answers
14:50
Coffee Break
15:00
Discussion Session Chaired by So Kazama, Professor, Tohoku University: WEPA Advisor.
Presentation: Results of WEPA Questionnaire on Climate Change and Water Environment Yatsuka Kataoka Director, Freshwater Sub-group, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Discussion Topic 1: Potential impacts of climate change to different water bodies Topic 2: Necessary adaptation actions (areas need policy intervention to cope with potential climate change impacts to water environment)
16:45
Closure of the day