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Statements & Presentations

High-Level Symposium on Sustainable Cities: Connecting People, Environment and Technology, Co-Convened By the United Nations and Toyota City

Number of statements/presentations: 38

Opening Session

Mr. Toshihiko Ota, Mayor of Toyota City

Mr. Wu Hongbo Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development

Mr. Shigeo Kitamura, State Minister of the Environment

Mr. Ohmura, Governor of Aichi

Statement given by Mr. Senta Morioka, Vice-Governor of Aichi Prefecture

Keynote statements

Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, DESA

Mr. Xie Zhengyi, Party Secretary and Director of Yangzhou People’s Congress Standing Committee, China

Presentation

Mr. Xie Zhengyi, Party Secretary and Director of Yangzhou People’s Congress Standing Committee, China

Speech

Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman of the Board, TOYOTA Motor Corporation

Message from Youth representatives of the Children’s Forum

Session 1

Mr. Yoshinobu Fukasawa, Director, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, UNHABITAT

Ms. Asako Toyozumi, Water and Urban Initiative (WUI) Project, United Nations University

Ms. Mary Jane Crisanto Ortega, Vice President of the International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)

Session 2

Mr. Dato James Chan Khay Syn, Mayor of Kuching City South

Mr. Narumi Nakamoto, Executive Director, Office for Environmental Future City Promotion, Kitakyushu City

Mr. William Fernando Camargo Triana, Director, Urban Development Institute, Colombia

Mr. Junichiro Okata, Incumbent President of the Institute for Aging Society Gerontology, University of Tokyo

Session 3

Mr. Mamadou Mbodj, Permanent Mission of Senegal to the United Nations

Mr. Matomi Komura, Deputy Mayor of Toyota City

Mr. Simon Evans, Director of Operations at the National Forest Company

Mr. M. Aravind Babu, Assistant Secretary-General, Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement International (OISCA International)

Session 4

Mr. Shuzo Murakami, Chairman of the Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation

Mr. Chihiro Tobe, Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

Mr. Toshihiko Ota, Mayor of Toyota City

Mr. Masayuki Kawamoto, Verification Project Team

Mr. Junichiro Kanamori, Verification Project Team

Mr. Masahiro Tamaki, Sumitomo Chemical Company

Mr. Ridwan Kamil, Mayor of Bandung, Indonesia

Session 5

Mr. Stefanos Fotiou, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Ms. Chikako Takase, Director, United Nations Centre for Regional Development

Dr. Rajib Shaw, Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

Ms. Somia Omer Mohmed Gamie, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Physical Development, Sudan

Session 6

Dr. Elly Sinaga, Director-General of the Research and Development Agency, Ministry of Transportation, Indonesia

Mr. Choudhury Rudra Charan Mohanty, Environment Programme Coordinator, United Nations Centre for Regional Development

Mr. Vladimir Komissarov, Deputy Director, ICBET, Moscow, Russia

Mr. Takeo Murakami, Director for International Negotiations Management,Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Japan

Mr. Tomomi Tamaki, Representative, Asian Development Bank Office in Japan

Closing Session

Mr. Nikhil Seth, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Mr. Toshihiko Ota, Mayor of Toyota City