Summary of CTI Workshop

September 10-23, 2000
Yokkaichi City, Mie, Japan
Working Together to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

CTI workshop in Asia 2000

The Capacity Building Working Group of the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) convened an Energy Efficiency Workshop at the International Center for Environmental Technology Transfer (ICETT) in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, from September 10-23, 2000. The Workshop was supported by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and co-sponsored by the Governments of Japan, Australia and the United States of America. ICETT implemented and hosted the Workshop at their training facility, and fifteen industrial managers and goverment officials from five nations - China, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam took part in the Workshop activities. In addition, energy efficiency (EE) and cleaner production (CP) experts from Japan, Australia and the United States of America also participated as resource persons.

The mission of CTI, which is comprised of delegates from OECD member countries and the European Commission, is "to promote the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by fostering international cooperation for accelerated development and diffusion of climate-friendly technologies and practice for all activities and greenhouse gases." CTI convened the Workshop at ICETT in 1998 and 1999, as well.

The objectives of this CTI workshop were:

(1) to transfer information about energy efficiency technologies to and among developing countries;
(2) to identify and overcome barriers to implementation of climate-friendly technology;
(3) to identify future directions and activities for EE and CP technology transfer;
(4) to receive participant feedback in order to improve the content and effectiveness of future workshops;and
(5) to share workshop conclusionswith delegates to the UNFCCC Sixth Conference of Parties (COP6), the Netherlands.

The Workshop was divided into four modules. The first component focused on EE,EE policy programmes, EE technology and the present EE situation in Japan and the United States of America. In addition, the participants presented a country study report on the current situation of EE and CP activity in their own countries. The second component focused on industrial EE technologies and new technologies in power generation industries. In addition, the power generation process was covered in detail.Participants made site-visits to the Chubu Electric Power Co.,Inc (Kawagoe Power Plant) and Hisai-Sakakibara Wind Farm where they listened to lectures and took part in discussion sessions. The third component of the workshop focused on CP. This session included international CP policy and CP assessment. Site-visits to the Taiheiyo Cement Corporation and Imuraya Confectionery Co.,Ltd. were conducted.In the fourth module,participants developed individual objectives for future EE and CP activities in their organizations, and also developed overall conclusions about EE and CP.

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