Second Regional 3R Forum in Asia

Date: 4-6 October 2010

Place: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Second Regional 3R Forum in Asia was held from 4-6 October 2010 in Malaysia.

The objectives were to:

• Contribute towards improved understanding and strengthened regional consensus in terms of policy options that promote the 3Rs towards achieving green economy, resource efficiency and sound material-cycle society;
• Identify and share information on opportunities for collaborative actions and partnerships, including international financial mechanism, public-private partnership, etc., to expand waste management services;
• Illustrate innovative initiatives, achievements and good practices in 3R programmes and strategies at local and national levels; and
• Enhance regional input to CSD-19 and UNCSD/Rio+20, in terms of various policy options and recommendations, as consolidated regional views, in response to major findings and outcome of the CSD-18 in waste management sector.

Final Co-Chairs' Summary

Concept Note

Programme

List of Participants

Speeches and Presentations

Keynote Address:

• Strategic Solid Waste Management: The Malaysian Approach Dato Ahmad Hj Kabit, Secretary-General, MHLG Malaysia
• Wastes to resources: Towards green economy and resource efficient society Prof. Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek, Director, Factor 10 Institute

Plenary Session 1:

Transitioning to Green Economy - Role of the 3Rs

• Decoupling of environmental degradation from resource use through Integrated Waste Management Prasad Modak, Environmental Management Centre
• Policies for Resource Efficient and Green Economies in Asia Stefanos Fotiou, UNEP
• Addressing environmental and social costs by internalizing externalities in product prices Reka Soos, Green Partners Ltd.
• Ecological tax reforms in support of green innovation and R & D: Case of Germany Martina Kolb, GTZ
• Mainstreaming 3Rs towards achieving a low carbon and sound material cycle society Tetsuo Ito, Director General, Department of Waste Management and Recycling, MoE-Japan
• Toward green economy by expansion of market of recycling business Yoshito Koga, President, Dowa Eco-System Co., Ltd.

Plenary Session 2:

Partnerships for realizing Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Society

• Challenges and opportunities with green technology transfer on the 3Rs Chettiyappan Visvanathan, 3RKH/AIT
• Opportunities of carbon finance for solid waste management and the 3Rs Nadine Dulac, BTC
• Partnership options to make the 3Rs as basis for resource efficient society Magnus Bengtsson, IGES
• Capacity development and institutional strengthening for transitioning to low carbon and resource efficient society Mitsuo Yoshida, JICA
• UNDP's initiatives in waste management/3Rs in the context of climate change mitigation Maria Nyholm, Environment and Energy Branch, UNDP New York
• OECD Approach on Sustainable Materials Management towards Resource Efficiency Peter Borkey, OECD
• Strategies and roadmap towards GHG emission reduction by Waste Sector MHLG Malaysia

Plenary Session 3:

Role of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Informal Sectors

• Is resource efficiency a challenge or opportunity for SMEs? Ijaz Hossain, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
• Sustainable policy options in dealing with hazardous and e-wastes: Unique challenges and the way ahead for SMEs Sunil Herat, Griffith University
• Application of cleaner production by SMEs: Best practices Heinz Leuenberger, UNIDO
• Improving recycling rates through privatization and economic incentives to informal sector Anne Scheinberg, WASTE
• Potential benefits for SMEs through strengthening waste recycling market Sandra Spies, GTZ
• Financing of Waste Management: Different Approaches and Examples Atilio Savino, President, ISWA

Keynote Address

• Sustainable Singapore Blueprint - Boosting Resource Efficiency and Green Economy Joseph Hui Kim Sung, Director-General of Environmental Protection Division, National Environment Agency (NEA)-Singapore

Plenary Session 4:

Implementing 3R Programmes and Strategies at Local, National and Regional Level

• Need for 3R strategies CRC Mohanty, UNCRD
• Financing the 3Rs for the next decade: from ADB perspective Vijay Joshi, ADB
• Public-Private-Community partnership for the 3Rs promotion in Bangladesh Maqsood Sinha, Waste Concern
• Community based 3Rs/waste management: Cases from India George C. Varughese, President, Development Alternatives
• Implications of waste management policies and practices in Pacific island countries Esther Richards, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
• Biomass waste utilization for energy security in Malaysia P. Agamuthu, Univ. of Malaya
• Key benchmark and performance indicators for waste management/3R - from Sustainable Cities' perspective Anne Scheinberg, WASTE (PDF)
• Sorted collection of various types of wastes and recycling: Cases of municipalities in Asia Akio Okumura, Japanese Environmental Sanitation Center
• Review of management system to deal with transboundary movement of wastes from regional perspective Li, Jinhui, Tsinghua University and BCRC China

Round Table 1

Addressing current capacity and institutional framework in the promotion of 3Rs and sound material cycle society

1. Cambodia
2. Lao PDR
3. Myanmar
4. Thailand
5. Viet Nam

Round Table 2

Partnerships for 3Rs promotion towards low carbon and resource efficient society

1. Bangladesh
2. Brunei Darussalam
3. Indonesia
4. Mongolia
5. Philippines
6. Timor Leste

Round Table 3

Addressing 3Rs in the context of green economy and sound material cycle society

1. China
2. India
3. Japan
4. Republic of Korea
5. Malaysia
6. Singapore

Round Table 4

Assessment of critical and emerging trends in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

1. Fiji
2. Kiribati
3. Palau
4. Samoa
5. Solomon Islands