UNEP-SBCI Symposium on Sustainable Buildings – 24 May 2011
Leverkusen, Germany

Venue: BayKomm Audience Hall, Leverkusen
Hosted by Bayer MaterialScience AG

• Final Agenda
  
  
• Outcomes of the Symposium

Keynote addresses:

• UNEP-SBCI Promoting Policies and Practices for a Sustainable Built Environment, Arab Hoballah, Chief, Sustainable Consumption and Production, UNEP- Division of Technology, Industry and Economics
  

• Science for a better life: The role of sustainable construction for Bayer MaterialScience,
  Patrick Thomas, CEO, Bayer MaterialScience AG
  
• The Energy Region North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),
  Frank-Michael Baumann, Managing Director Energy Agency.NRW, Northrhine-Westfalia

Session 1. Measuring progress in sustainable building:

• Global Energy Consumption in the Building Sector, Diana Urge-Vorsatz, Central European University
  
• UNEP-SBCI’s Common Carbon Metric: applications for buildings and cities,
  Janet Kidner, 2010 Chair of UNEP-SBCI Energy/GHG Technical Advisory Committe
  
• The need for effective reporting on sustainable buildings: translating to policy, Professor Tomonari Yashiro, Director General, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo
  
• Policy approaches to capture the energy savings potential in the building sector,Yamina Saheb, International Energy Agency
  
• Sub-sector approaches to sustainable building practices,
  José-Luis Gálvez Martos, Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, European Commission

Session 2. Buildings, Cities, and Regions: Action on Sustainable Buildings:

• Sustainable Buildings: Status and developments in Southeast Asia,
  Edward Anggadjaja, Building and Construction Authority of Singapore
  
• Istanbul: the challenges for sustainable buildings in emerging economies,
  Dr. Duygu Erten, Founder, TURKECO Consulting and Turkish Green Building Council- Board Vice President
  
• Building Sector in the Mediterranean: Regional Prospects,
  Stéphane Pouffary, ENERGIES 2050
  
• One Planet Communities Programme,
  Pooran Desai, International Director, One Planet Communities programme
  
• “Blue Skies, Green City,”
  Markus Palm, Managing Director, Innovation City Management GmbH
  
• From Kyoto/Copenhagen/Cancun to high performance campus built environments at universities in developing countries,
  Professor Volker Hartkopf, Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
  
• Building Climate Neutral Cities- Experience from Western and Eastern Europe’, Paola Deda, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

Session 3. Towards Rio+20: Trends in Policy-Making for Sustainable Buildings:

• The Outlook toward Rio+20 and Beyond.
  Dr. Kaarin Taipale, Former Chair of Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction

• Prioritizing buildings in international action,
  Victoria Novikova, Sustainable Development Mechanisms Programme, UNFCCC
• The Use of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the Building Sector,
  Stefan Wehner, Perspectives GmbH, Hamburg
  
• Financing energy retrofits in buildings,
  Gil Levy, UNEP-Finance Initiative Property Working Group, Sustainable Development Capital LLP
  
• Buildings and UNEP’s Green Economy Report,
  Joana Carla Soares Gonçalves, Professor, Department of Architectural Technology, University of São Paulo, Brazil