SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE 21 ST CENTURY: ADDRESSING IMMINENT CHALLENGES

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1 7 th ASEM Sustainable Development Dialogue Danube Mekong Cooperation Initiative SUSTAINABLE AND INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE 21 ST CENTURY: ADDRESSING IMMINENT CHALLENGES Tentative Programme Budapest, Hungary September 2018 All speakers are under invitation

2 11 th September 2018, Tuesday Registration Opening speeches Welcome speech by the representative of the Hungarian Government Representative of Lao PDR as host country of the 6 th ASEM Sustainable Development Dialogue in 2017 Representative of the European Commission Representative of ASEM Water Resources Research and Development Centre (ASEM Water), China 10:10-10:30 Coffee break Session 1: Water as a key challenge in Asia and Europe The case for cities Philip Weller (Head of Technical Secretariat, International Association of Water Supply Companies in the Danube River Catchment Area): Danube Water Program Panel Speakers - Peter Joo Hee Ng (Chief Executive Officer and Director, Public Utilities Board of Singapore) - Csaba Haranghy (Executive Director, Budapest Waterworks) - Representative of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, Lao PDR Discussion

3 Moderator: Kálmán Buzás (Honorary Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Civil Engineering) 12:00-13:00 Lunch break Session 2: Water related disaster management and climate change resilience Károly Gombás (Priority Area coordinator, EU Strategy for the Danube Region Priority Area 5 Environmental risks; Chairman, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River Flood Protection Expert Group): Increasing the preparedness of the Danube region against environmental risks - confirmed - Takashi Kawamoto (Associate Expert & Programme Management Officer; United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office of Europe): Making cities resilient a tool box for better adaptation to climate change extremities - Representative of Slovakia - Representative of China - Mirza Sarač (Advisor for protection against detrimental effects from waters and extraordinary impacts on the water regime, International Sava River Basin Commission) Moderator: Representative of the Mekong River Commission 14:45-15:15 Coffee break Session 3: Hazardous substances, plastic waste and micro-pollutants of waters and their effects on nature Ivan Zavadsky (Executive Secretary; International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River): Hazardous substances, micro pollutants in the Danube River Basin - Representative of Mekong River Commission

4 - Gergely Hankó (Managing Director, Hungarian Association of Environmental Enterprises) Gábor Bordós (Project manager, Wessling Hungary Ltd.): Plastic waste pollution and awareness raising in the Tisa River basin - confirmed - Representative of Thailand - Representative of Romania Moderator: Balázs Horváth (Priority Area coordinator, EU Strategy for the Danube Region Priority Area 4 Water quality) Welcome Reception (separate registration required) 12 th September 2018, Wednesday Session 4: Water allocation on transboundary basins, including water scarcity and drought management, the quality and quantity of surface and groundwaters Gábor Baranyai (Ministerial Commissioner for the Sustainable Use of Transboundary Natural Resource, Ministry of Justice, Hungary) - confirmed - representative of Bulgaria - representative of Cambodia - Annamária Nádor (Senior researcher & Project manager; Mining and Geological Survey of Hungary): DARLING-e - transnational project for sustainable usage of shared thermal water resources Moderator: Richard Müller (Regional coordinator, Global Water Partnership CEE) Coffee break :30 Session 5: Modern water resources management in education challenges of the 21 st century

5 András Szöllősi-Nagy (Professor; National University of Public Service, Institute for Sustainable Development Studies, Hungary) - confirmed : - Representative of China - Helmut Habersack (Head of Institute; University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Austria) - Representative of Vietnam Moderator: Friedrich Faulhammer (President, Danube Rectors Conference) Closing session: Summary and adoption of the final seminar document Remarks by high level representatives from Europe Remarks by the representative the next host country Closing speech by István Joó (Ministerial Commissioner for Water Diplomacy, Export and the Danube Region Strategy; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Hungary) Lunch break Field trip (separate registration required) For further information, please contact the Organizing Team of the event via (DunaKonf@mfa.gov.hu), or by phone ( ).