Embrace a low-carbon lifestyle Make Hong Kong walkable again

WALKING TOWARDS A LOW-CARBON HONG KONG

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Programme

Time Items Speakers

9:00 Welcome Remarks

Maura Wong, CEO, Civic Exchange

Bronwen Thornton, Development Director, Walk21

Leong Cheung, Executive Director, Charities and Community, The Hong Kong

Jockey Club

Opening Speech

K.S. Wong, Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR Government

9:40 Keynote Session

Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia

Rachmat Witoelar, Indonesia President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change

Florian Lorenz, International Coordinator, Low Carbon City Forum, Austria

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30

The Journey Towards Healthy Low Carbon Cities in Practice:

The Building Blocks to Deliver Healthy, Clean Communities

Ester Cerin, Institute for Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Yi Mien Koh, Medical Director, AIA Group Ltd., Hong Kong

Tyler Norris, Vice President, Total Health, Kaiser Permanente, USA

Jean Woo, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,

Hong Kong

13:00 Lunch

14:30

Hong Kong Charette: Ideas into Action

Des Voeux Road Central Project

Smart Mobility in East Kowloon HarbourLoop

Very Hong Kong

Markus Shaw, Des Voeux Road Central Initiative

Carmen Chu, Director, Ove Arup & Partners Hong Kong Ltd.

Ian Ralph, Senior Planner, Lead-8

Margaret Brooke, Co-founder, Very Hong Kong

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 Secretaries Dialogue: Sharing a Vision for Hong Kong

Eric Ma, Under Secretary for Transport & Housing, HKSAR Government

Shing-mu Yau, Under Secretary for Development, HKSAR Government

Christine Loh, Under Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR Government

16:45 Interactive Panel: Taking Action for Hong Kong

Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia

Ester Cerin, Institute for Health and Ageing, Australian Catholic University, Australia

Supriya Sen, McKinsey & Co., Singapore

Christopher Law, Founding Director & Architect, The Oval Partnership Ltd., Hong

Kong

17:30

Conference Conclusions

Jim Walker, Director, Walk21

Closing Ceremony & Handover to Calgary 2017

Maura Wong, CEO, Civic Exchange

John Brown, University of Calgary, Canada

Academic and Student Supporting Partners

Centre for Health Behaviours Research, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK

Centre on Behavioral Health, The University of Hong Kong

CU X Rubbish

CUHK Jockey Club Initiative Gaia

Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Department of Health and Physical Education, The Education University of Hong Kong

Department of Real Estate and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

Department of Social Work & Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong

Organisers

Earth System Science Programme, Faculty of Science, CUHK

Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong

HKU Sustainability Office

Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health

Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainability, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The University of Hong Kong Institute of Transport Studies