CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY LAW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT LEGAL REGIME IN ASIA: THE RULE OF LAW IN THE FIELD OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION Kaohsiung, Taiwan 26 th 28th August, 2015 (Programme for Foreign Delegates Only) Organizers: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Institute of Law for Science & Technology, National Tsing-Hua University Funding Partner: The Establishment of Legal Framework for Low-Carbon Technology, National Energy Research Programme (Ministry of Science & Technology) (Project Number: MOST 104-3113-F-007-001) Workshop Program: 25th August, 2015 Arrival of International Participants and check-in to Hotel below. Hotel: The Grand Hi Lai Hotel No.266, Cheng-kung 1st Rd., Kaohsiung City 801, Taiwan R.O.C. 26 th August, 2015 DAY 1: CONFERENCE VENUE: THE GRAND HI LAI HOTEL CONFERENCE ROOM, 15 TH FLOOR 08.30 hrs Registration at Foyer Area, Conference Room, 15 th Floor 09.00 hrs Introduction and Welcome Remarks Mrs Gisela Elsner Director, Rule of Law Programme Asia Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Prof. Chien Te Fan Director of Institute of Law for Science & Technology, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan 1
Keynote Speech Dr. WEI, Kuo-Yen Minister of Environmental Protection Administration, R.O.C. (Taiwan) 10.00 hrs Dr. Peter Hefele Director, Regional Project Energy security and Climate Change Asia-Pacific Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.v., Hong Kong 10.30 11.00 hrs Coffee break PANEL 1: RULE OF LAW & CLIMATE ADAPTATION Mr. Ritwick Dutta Managing Trustee: Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) 11.00 11.30 hrs Dr. Monthip Sriratana Director, Climate Change Research Strategies, National Research Council of Thailand Improving the Agricultural Insurance Programme to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change Adaptation in Thailand" 11.30 12.00 hrs Emeritus Prof. Koh Kheng Lian Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Chair, APCEL Specialist Group on Climate Change Adaptation, NUS Improving Effectiveness in Environmental Disaster Management Governance: Legal and Organizational Frameworks Relating to the ASEAN Context 12.00 12.30 hrs Prof. Chien Te Fan Director of Institute of Law for Science & Technology, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan Articulating a Legal Framework for Climate Change Adaptation -A Taiwan's Perspective 12.30 13.00 hrs Q&A Session The Legal framework for Adaptation in Taiwan 13.00 14.30 hrs Lunch at Poolside Café, 11 th Floor 2
PANEL 2: RULE OF LAW & DISASTER MANAGEMENT Prof. Linda Yanti Sulistiawati Vice Dean for Academic and Students Affairs Lecturer of Law, Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 14.30-15.00 hrs Mr. Roger Chan Chairperson of the Environmental and Climate Change Committee of the Bar Council, Malaysia The Role of the Malaysian Bar in Addressing Climate Change Issues in Malaysia 15.00-15.30 hrs Prof. Deng Haifeng Associate Professor, School of Law, Tsinghua University, PRC Study on Legal Issues of Social Assistance in the Process of Post-Disaster Reconstruction 15:30-16:00 hrs Coffee break 16.00-16.30 hrs Prof. Siwon Park Assistant Professor, Law School of Kangwon National University, Seoul New Changes in Disaster Management Law Embracing Climate Change Adaptation in Korea 16.30 17.00 hrs Prof. Anton Ming-Zhi Gao Associate Professor, The Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan The Trend of Rule of Law under the Disaster Management and Climate Adaptation regime in Taiwan 17.00 17.30 hrs Q & A Session 18.00 hrs Welcome Dinner at Harbor Restaurant, 43 rd Floor Grand Hi-Lai Hotel 3
27 th August, 2015 Day 2: PANEL 3: LOCAL GOVERNMENT S EFFORTS IN RULE OF LAW OF CLIMATE ADAPTATION & DISASTER MANAGEMENT Emeritus Prof. Koh Kheng Lian Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Chair, APCEL Specialist Group on Climate Change Adaptation, NUS 08.30-09.00 hrs Prof. Noriko Date (Okubo) Professor, University of Osaka Comprehensive water management and collaborative activities in Japan 09.00-09.30 hrs Prof. Ho-Ching Lee Professor, Graduate Institute of Construction Engineering and Management, National Central University The role of local knowledge and co-production of knowledge in adaptation to climate change: the Case of Tainan City 09.30-10.00 hrs Mr. Ritwick Dutta Managing Trustee: Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE) Role of Local Institutions in addressing Climate Change in India 10.00 10.30 hrs Q&A Session 10.30 11.00 hrs Coffee break 11.00 11.30 hrs Dr. Chinghui Liao Director of ICLEI Kaohsiung Capacity Center Climate Change Adaptation and Local Governance 11.30 12.00 hrs Prof. Gloria Estenzo Ramos University of Cebu, College of Law, the Philippines/Vice President, Oceana Philippines Strengthening Resiliency of People and Planet as Adaptation to Climate Challenges: the Philippines' experience' 4
12.00 12.30 hrs Prof. Linda Yanti Sulistiawati Vice Dean for Academic and Students Affairs Lecturer of Law, Faculty of Law Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Climate Justice in Indonesia: Challenges and Opportunities 12.30 13.00 hrs Q&A Session 13.00 14.00 hrs Lunch at Shanghainese Dumpling Restaurant, 10 th Floor PANEL 4: RULE OF LAW, CLIMATE CHANGE AND REGIONAL COOPERATION Prof. Gloria Estenzo Ramos, University of Cebu, College of Law, the Philippines/Vice President, Oceana Philippines 14.00-14.30 hrs Prof. Wei-Nien Su Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. The Green Growth and Strategy of Employment in Taiwan: Analysis on the International Trend of Law and Policy 14.30-15.00 hrs Mr Tribunalo Baltz Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Cebu Province Coordinator for Task Force Paglig-on Recovery and Rehabilitation Program for Haiyan Affected LGUs of Cebu, Philippines Impacts of Laws on DRRM and Climate Change Adaptation to Local Communities 15.00-15.30 hrs Prof. Yao-Ming Hsu Associate Professor of School of Law, National Chengchi University Climate Change and Cross- Strait Cooperation 15.30-16.00 hrs Coffee break 5
16.00-16.50 hrs Round Table Discussion & Closing Ceremony PARTICIPANTS: Mrs Gisela Elsner Director, Rule of Law Programme Asia Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung All Speakers plus: Prof. Yun-ju Wang (Associate Professor, Department of Law, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan) 18.00 hrs Dinner at Hongmaogang Sea Food Restaurant No.214 Sanduosan Road, Lingya District, Kaohsiung,Taiwan 07-3353606 (around six mins by taxi from the hotel) 28 th August, 2015 DAY 3: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Cultural tour 7.30 hrs Onwards 8.30 hrs Land subsidence area & Planting Electricity efforts LCY Group - Photovoltaic Education Pavilion. There were many fish farms in Pingtung County's Jiadong past,linbian. However, "land subsidence" became the biggest problem there, since four years ago. Typhoon Morakot crashed and people who lived in subsidence area were suffered terribly, but after reconstruction Today coastal subsidence area of more than 44 hectares raising water species electricity area, all kinds of elevated solar panels replace orchards and farming waste pond, face subsidence area is changing. 10.30 hrs Taiwan Aboriginal Culture Park With the changing times, the importance of Taiwan's aboriginal population gradually awareness of cultural preservation, and then on the advice of community leaders and people from all walks of, finally opened the government set up an outdoor museum of Aboriginal Cultural Park. 12.30 hrs Lunch at Mino Areva Rice flour lath ( Hakka cuisine) 6
14.00 hrs Meinung Hakka Cultural Museum "Mino" formerly known as "Mi concentrated" located in Kaohsiung City, and residents living here about 90% of all Hokka people, therefore Mino region of Hakka culture in Taiwan is currently the best preserved township. It has a rich simplicity that Hakka in the Hakka display early in the course of migration in order to adapt to the environment created by the conventional wisdom of life. 16.00 hrs Xiaolin village Memorial Park During Morakot typhoon crashed in 2009, Xiaolin village was attacked-hit by offering belly Rocky Mountains avalanche buried, resulting in 462 residents since buried, in memory of the dead and comfort the families of the victims, to the south of Highlands Xiaolin village site Xing provision Memorial Park, to provide villagers and visitors a rite to commemorate the place. 17.30 hrs Dinner at Nansha Lu Restaurant (indigenous people cuisine) (TBC) 18.30hrs Return Back to the hotel about 21:00 7