Deep Dive Workshop: How to Maximize Energy-Urban Nexus

Background

Fast-growing cities in the Asia and Pacific region will play a decisive role to address the region’s energy future and its carbon footprint. Cities evolve and develop, and the urban energy systems and climate resilience will be even more important to the entire region’s sustainable and low carbon development pathways. To effectively decarbonize their existing energy systems and scale up the use of low carbon technologies, cities move to adopt an integrated low carbon planning along with innovative energy solutions, backed up by evidence-based emission tracking.

Objectives

Against this backdrop, the DDW discusses key solutions that are hard and soft and contribute to the current and future energy-urban nexus in the region. The DDW will be structured into two parts consisting of

(1) Session 1: Align Urban Energy Solutions with Low Carbon Development of Cities; and
(2) Session 2: Integrated Low Carbon Solutions for Livable Cites.

The first session highlights the value and coordinating role of cross sectoral urban energy plans and their integration with the cities’ transformation pathways towards sustainable and carbon neutral energy use. Considering most of cities do not have a reliable overview of their emission profiles, the session also illustrates the importance of a proper measuring and tracking of emissions. The second session is dedicated to some of urban energy solutions currently being implemented by ADB and its developing member countries with the support of the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF). UCCRTF is administered by Urban Financing Partnership Facility (UFPF) of ADB, with the contributions from the Governments of United Kingdom and Switzerland, and Rockefeller Foundation.

The second session will highlight the innovativeness and value addition of each project including associated socio, economic, and environment benefits conducive to energy efficient and livable communities and cities in Asia and the Pacific. It is essential to balance and coordinate synergies and nexus across energy supply and demand and other key urban components covering buildings, transport, and green infrastructure. Integrated actions will bring considerable co-benefits including improved public health and reduced air pollution.

AGENDA

Time (Manila)	Activities
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	Opening Remarks *Manoj Sharma,* Chief of Urban Sector Group, ADB
	Session 1: Align Urban Energy Solutions with Low Carbon Urban Development Moderator: *Sunghoon Kris Moon,* Urban Development Specialist, ADB Integrated Low Carbon Transition: Lessons Learned from the City of Seoul *Yoonjin Cho,* Manager of Enviornmental Policy Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government *Jaehyeon Jeong,* Deputy Director of Environmental Policy Division, Seoul Metropolitan Government How Paris Measures its GHG Emissions: Origins Earth Methodology *David Duccni,* Chief Executive Officer, Origins Earth Piloting Low Carbon Urban Development in Visakhapatnam, India *Ashwin Hosur Viswanath,* Senior Project Officer (Urban), ADB
	Session2: Integrated Low Carbon Solutions for Livable Cites Moderator: *Okju Jeong,* Urban Climate Change Resilience Specialist (consultant), Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), ADB Introducing Clean Heating Solutions in Erdenet City *Karma Yangzom,* Principal Environmental Specialist, ADB Urban Transport and Energy Nexus Solutions – Deployment of E-water Taxis in Indonesia *Chuenchanok Jantanalikhit,* Grutter Consulting Lessons from the Urban Energy Portfolio of PPP Center, Philippines *Jose Barroco,* ADB consultant and Mark Brandon Chan, Project Development Officer, PPP center
	Synthesis and Closing Remarks *Virinder Sharma,* Principal Urban Development Specialist, ADB

Speakers

Jose Barroco

Energy Consultant
Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Public-Private Partnership Center

Jaehyeon Jeong

Deputy Director of Environmental Policy Division
Seoul Metropolitan Government

Yoonjin Cho

Manager of Environmental Policy Division
Seoul Metropolitan Government

Sunghoon Kris Moon

Urban Development Specialist, ADB
Asian Development Bank

David Duccini

CEO - Chief Executive Officer
Origins.earth

Okju Jeong

Urban Climate Change Resilience Specialist (consultant)
ADB

Karma Yangzom

Prinicpal Environment Specialist
Asian Development Bank

Chuenchanok Jantanalikhit

Consultant
Grutter Consulting

Ashwin Hosur Viswanath

Senior Project Officer (Urban), Senior Project Officer (Urban)
Asian Development Bank

Virinder Sharma

Principal Urban Development Specialist
Asian Development Bank

Manoj Sharma

Chief of Urban Sector Group
Asian Development Bank

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About the Organizer

Asian Development Bank

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. It assists its members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development.