As part of on going about the UNESCO Sustainability programme, UNESCO Jakarta with the support of Japanese Fund-in-thrust and in collaboration with The National University of Malaysia, especially with the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI) and other institutions such as International Science, Technology and Innovation Centre for South-South Cooperation under the Auspices of UNESCO (ISTIC), Humid Tropic Centre Kuala Lumpur (HTCKL), UNESCO-IHP Malaysia, National Council of Professors (MPN) and Ministry of Higher Learning Malaysia (KPT) is organizing an International Workshop on Sustainability Science: A Science Based Approach to Realize the Future We Want for All.
Thursday 04 April 2013 |
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| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | |
| Opening | ||
| 09:00 – 09:40 | Opening SessionUNESCO, Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences | |
| LESTARI, UKM, Mazlin bin Mokhtar ISTIC, Samsudin Tugiman H. E. Crispus Kiamba, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Kenya (tbc)
H. E. Gebhard Benjamin Kandang, Namibia High Commissioner to Malaysia (tbc) MEXT, Shigeharu Kato, Secretary General of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO
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| Plenary Session | Global Challenges and Post-2015 Development AgendaChair: Gretchen Kalonji, ADG/SC, UNESCO | |
| 09.40 – 09.55 | Keynote Speech: Post-2015 Development Paradigms and FrameworksJeffrey Sachs, Director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University | |
| 09.55 – 10.10 | Keynote Speech: Building a Sustainability Science through Global Meta-NetworkKazuhiko Takeuchi – Senior Vice-Reactor, United Nations University, and Director, IR3S, The University of Tokyo | |
| 10.10 – 10.25 | Contribution of Sustainability Science to the Post-2015 Development AgendaHubert Gijzen – Director and Representative UNESCO Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific | |
| 10.25 – 10:45 | Questions and Answers | |
| 10.45 – 11.15 |
Tea/Coffee Break
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| 11:15-12:00 | Role of sustainability science to deliver SGDs through creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship?Chair: Mazlin bin Mokhtar UKM, Lestari | |
| 11:15-11:30 | The Evolution of Sustainability Science: Ideas and PracticeNancy Dickson, Co-Director, Sustainability Science Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | |
| 11.30 – 11.45 | Presentation of the Review Paper by Zainal Abidin Sanusi
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| 11.45 – 12:00 | Questions and Answers | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Breakout Groups Session-1 on Sustainability Science Chair: Keizrul Bin Abdullah, NARBO | |
| 13:00 -14:00 |
Lunch
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| 14:00 – 14:30 | Reports from Breakout Session-1 and Summary in Plenary | |
| 14:30-15:30 | UNESCO High Level Panel Discussion (Panellists: ADGs + Directors) Moderated by Hubert GijzenSustainability Science for the Post 2015 Agenda
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| 15:30-16:00 |
Tea/Coffee Break
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| Plenary Session Through Video Conference | Video Conference Link with Addis Ababa Asia-Africa Cooperation lead by H. E. Crispus Kiamba and Abdalla Abdelsalam Ahmed in KL | |
| 16:00 – 17:301730 – 1830
20:30 |
South-south Cooperation for Post 2015 AgendaWelcome Reception by UNESCO and UKM
Dinner (outside of the hotel)
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| Friday 5 April 2013 | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Opening Remarks and Keynote SpeechUNESCO Pilar Álvarez-Laso, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences
Zakri Bin Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister’s Science Advisor Keynote Speech: Climate Science, Policy and Sustainable Development Interface: Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, The Energy and the Resources Institute TERI |
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| 09.00 – 10.00
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Thematic Case Studies on Sustainability Science in the Asia-Pacific RegionChair: Pilar Álvarez-Laso, ADG/SHS1. Craig Hutton – Assistant Prof. Dep. of Geography, University of Southampton: “ESPA DELTA: Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services And Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas in Bangladesh.”
2. Pedro Walpole – Research Director and Chair, Board of Trustees, Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC): Towards greater human security in Mindanao by establishing strategic research partnerships to strengthen local governance in land and water management. 3. Soontak Lee – Yeungnam University. UNESCO IHP Bureau Governor, World Water Council (WWC) – Sustainability in the Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) 4. Sivanappan Kumar Asian Institute of Technology Bangkok: Case Study on Energy |
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| 10.00 – 10.20 | Questions and Answers | |
| 10.20 – 10.40 |
Tea/Coffee Break
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| 10:40 – 12.00 | Breakout Group Session-2 on Implementing Sustainability Science Chair: Mohamed Roseli Bin Zainal Abidin, Director UNESCO HTCKL | |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Breakout Group Reports and Summary in Plenary | |
| 12:30 – 14:30 |
Lunch and Friday Prayer Break |
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| Plenary Session | How to uplift the role of science? Chair: Lee Yee Cheong, ISTIC | |
| 14:30-15:00 | Discussion opening remarks byGretchen Kalonji, ADG/SC, Pilar Álvarez-Laso, ADG/SHS, Sharifah Hapsah, Vice Counsellor UKMHow to develop a new contract between science and society, including policy-makers and other stakeholder groups?
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| 15:00-16:00 | Discussion | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Concluding RemarksGretchen Kalonji, ADG/SC Pilar Álvarez-Laso, ADG/SHS
Sharifah Hapsah, Vice Counsellor UKM Lee Yee Cheong, Chairman ISTIC Governing Board
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| 16:30 | Drinks and informal discussions | |