Informal roundtable on addressing the issue of e-waste in consumer electronics value chains through responsible business conduct (RBC) in South-East Asia

“Seeking a coordinated strategy on addressing e-waste.”

7 June, 2016 United Nations Conference Centre - Meeting Room A, Bangkok, Thailand

(DRAFT) Tentative Programme

0830 hrs – 0900 hrs Registration

0900 hrs – 0950 hrs Opening session moderated by Ms. Susan Stone, Director of ESCAP’s Trade,

Investment and Innovation Division)

Introduction

• Ms. Susan F. Stone, Director of the Trade, Investment and Innovation Division

Opening address

• Mr. Hongjoo Hahm, Deputy Executive Secretary for Programmes, Economics

and Financing at ESCAP

• Mr. Edward CLARENCE-SMITH, UNIDO Representative and Director of Regional

Office Thailand

The Role of the ASEAN Economic Community on advancing the 2030 development

agenda

• Presentation by: Mr. Thomas Thomas, CEO of the ASEAN CSR Network

Business role in achieving sustainable development

• Mr. Songkiert Tansamrit

Advisor to Thailand Business Council for Sustainable Development

0950 hrs – 1000 hrs Why we are here and what we expect to accomplish

• Presentation by: Mr. Eric Roeder, Economic Affairs Officer TIID / BDS

1000hrs – 1015hrs Break

1015hrs - 1030hrs Media Flashes on the adverse impact of e-waste in the Asia-Pacific

• Presentation by Mr. Alfred Romann of China Daily Asia Weekly (via skype)

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1030 hrs – 1200 hrs

Development agency initiatives for addressing e-waste (moderated)

INTERPOL Project CWIT: Countering WEEE Illegal Trade - a consortium initiative led

by INTERPOL, with partners such as UNICRI, UNU and WEEE Forum

• Presentation by Ioana BOTEZATU (via skype)

Environmental Security Sub-Directorate, INTERPOL General Secretariat

UNEP’s work in the area of e-waste

• Presentation by: Dr. Mushtaq Memon UNEP IETC

UNIDO: Promoting sustainable e-waste management systems in developing

countries

• Presentation by Mr. Edward CLARENCE-SMITH, UNIDO Representative and

Director of Regional Office Thailand

ITU’s work on e-waste (global standards)

• Presentation by Mr. Ashish Narayan

UNU: End-of-life quality standards for e-waste

• Presentation by Dr. Deepali Sinha-Khetriwal UNU/ SCYCLE

Q&A

1200 hrs – 1300 hrs Lunch break

1300hrs – 1430hrs Private sector innovative e-waste initiatives (moderated by ATCI )

SGS RENOVO: Self-funding e-waste solutions

• Presentation by Mr. George Bottomley, Governments and Institutions (GIS)

Vice President/Regional Operations Manager (Asia)

Fuji-Xerox efforts on addressing e-waste

• Presentation by: Ms. Janet Neo, Head of Fuji-Xerox Corporate Sustainability,

Asia Pacific

Dell’s work on Addressing e-waste

• Presentation by Mr. Russell Ngo of Dell |Global Product Compliance GPC

Recommendations from the Association of Thai ICT Industry (ATCI)

Q&A

1430hrs - 1500hrs Responsible Investment

• Mr. Eric Y C Lui , Executive Director and Mr. Alex Alexander Lui, Managing

Director

Asia Environmental Partners of Olympus Capital Asia

Q&A

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1500hrs – 1545hrs

Social Entrepreneurship on e-waste (moderated)

Supporting social entrepreneurs to achieve the 2030 development agenda

• Presentation by: Dr. Faiz Shah, Director, Yunus Center at AIT, Head of DM and

Ms. Marina Laurenco of YCA

BinBag: Picking up household e-waste from people’s doorstep and sending it to

authorized recyclers.

• Presentation by Mr. Achitra Borgohain, Founder of BinBag Bangalore

Q&A

1545hrs – 1600hrs Break

1600 hrs – 1700 hrs Round-table discussion of national strategies and experiences –Identifying country

priorities on e-waste (Dr. Mushtaq Memon UNEP IETC )

Session

round-table discussion with participating countries on key current priorities and

challenges of member countries on e-waste

• Thailand1: Ms. Pornpimon Chareonsong

• Cambodia: tba

• Myanmar: tba

• Lao PDR: tba

• Viet Nam: Ngo Thi Xuan Ha, Second Secretary, Deputy Permanent

Representative to UNESCAP; and Nguyen Dong Hong

• Malaysia: tba

• Indonesia: tba

Q&A

1700hrs – 1730hrs “Seeking a coordinated strategy on addressing e-waste in the subregion.”

• Mr. Marc Proksch, Chief, Business and Development Section (BDS), Trade and

Investment and Innovation Division (TIID), ESCAP

Open Discussion

1730hrs Close

1 Department of Health (DoH) Ministry of Public Health

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