Tuesday, 4 May 2010 |
| Registration opens at 8:00am |
| 9.00a.m. – 9.30a.m.
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Opening Ceremony
Master of ceremonies: Christine Auclair, UN-Habitat
Inga Bjork-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Tirop Kosgey, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Housing, Government of Kenya
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| 9.30a.m. – 9.45 a.m. |
Introduction to Conference
Robert Kehew, UN-Habitat |
| 9.45a.m. – 10.50a.m. |
Introductions by participants, by country
Moderator: Cecilia Njenga, UN-Habitat |
| 10.50a.m. – 11.15a.m. |
Morning tea |
| 11.15a.m. – 12.45p.m. |
What are green buildings? Best practice examples from around Africa and the world
Moderator: Christophe Lalande, UN-Habitat
Michelle Malanca, Michelle Malanca Sustainability Consulting
Jacob Kibwage, Project Leader, Kenya Tobacco-to-Bamboo Project, Maseno University
Eric Noir, WSP Green by Design
Mark Palmer, RTKL/ARCADIS
What are ‘green’ buildings, with innovative examples from Africa and other countries |
| 12.45p.m. – 1.45p.m. |
Lunch |
| 1.50p.m. – 3.20p.m. |
The role of Green Building Councils and the World Green Building Council
Moderator: Gulelat Kebede, UN-Habitat
Jason Buch, Green Building Council (GBC) South Africa (SA)
Bruce Kerswill, GBCSA and World GBC Board Member
Siham Omri, Morocco GBC
An introduction to Green Building Councils and how they transform building industries towards sustainability |
| 3.20p.m. – 3.45p.m. |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.45p.m. – 5.15p.m. |
Interactive Session: challenges for the building industry – promoting green building in Africa
Moderator: Christine Auclair, UN-Habitat
Panel: Akin Akindoyeni, Chairman, Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria
Tony Lee Luen Len, Mauritius GBC
Elijah Agevi, Kenya Private Sector Alliance
A quick tour around Africa, to sample the challenges faced by the building industry in different countries in promoting green building |
| 5.30p.m. – 5.40p.m. |
Wrap-up and looking ahead
Host: Michelle Malanca |
| 6:30p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Reception
Caz Creole (“old cafeteria” pavilion), UN-Gigiri |
| Wednesday, 5 May 2010 |
| Doors open 8:00am |
| 8.45a.m. - 9.30 a.m. |
World GBC networks
Moderator: Raf Tuts, UN-Habitat
Jane Henley, Executive Director, World GBC (remote)
Rick Fedrizzi, President and CEO, United States GBC (pre-recorded video)
The system of regional networks that the World GBC is starting to develop
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| 9.30a.m. - 11.20 a.m. | A closer look at the major green building rating tools in use around the world
Moderator and Speaker: Michelle Malanca
S. C. Kumar, India GBC
Jason Buch, GBC South Africa
Tony Lee Luen Len, Mauritius GBC
The challenges faced by GBCs in developing tools to rate the environmental performance of buildings
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| 11.20a.m. - 11.45 a.m. |
Morning tea |
| 11.45a.m. - 1.00 p.m. | Governance & finance aspects of operating a Green Building Council
Moderator: Robert Kehew, UN-Habitat
Bruce Kerswill, GBCSA
S.C. Kumar, India GBC (IGBC)
Manal ElBatran-Tolba, Egypt GBC (10 minutes)
The nuts and bolts of operating a self-sustaining Green Building Council
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| 1.00p.m. - 2.00 p.m |
Lunch |
| 2.00p.m. - 3.30 p.m. | What is appropriate for Africa? Alternatives to the country-specific GBC approach
Moderator: Vincent Kitio, UN-Habitat
Robert Kehew, UN-Habitat
Eric Noir, WSP Green by Design
Bruce Kerswill, GBCSA
Koffi Tossa Kwassi, Secretary General, Ministry of Housing, Togo
The range of alternative institutional arrangements for promoting green building
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| 3.25p.m. - 3.45 p.m. |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.45p.m. - 5.30 p.m. | How national and local government policies and international programs can encourage and/or finance the construction of green buildings
Moderator: Claudio Acioly, UN-Habitat
Niclas Svenningsen, UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (SBCI)
Christophe Lalande, UN-Habitat, Shelter Initiative for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Vincent Kitio, UN-Habitat, Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings in East Africa Programme
Ways that governments can interact with green building rating systems, as well as relevant international programmes
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| 5.30p.m. - 5.40 p.m. | Wrap-up and looking ahead
Host: Michelle Malanca |
| Thursday, 6 May 2010 |
| | The objectives for Day 3 are for participants, by the end of the day:
- To make commitments, and develop the elements of a strategy and roadmap, for promoting green building in their countries or sub-regions.
- To develop the outline for a proposed Africa-wide Network, to facilitate ongoing communications and exchanges between champions of green building in different parts of Africa.
- To provide recommendations to UN-Habitat and the UN System regarding future support to green building rating in Africa.
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Doors open 8:00 a.m. |
| 8.50a.m. - 9.10 a.m. | Introduction to Day 3 of Conference
Presenter/facilitator: Michelle Malanca
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| 9.10a.m. - 9.40 a.m. | Individual visioning exercise (in plenary)
Facilitator: Michelle Malanca
By 2015, where would you like your country to be regarding green building and green building rating? |
| 9.40a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | How do we get there? Strategies to achieve visions
Facilitated small group discussion of strategic approaches |
| 10.30p.m. - 11.00 a.m. | Presentations of strategies
Moderator: Michelle Malanca
Presentations by each group in plenary
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| 11.00a.m. - 11.30 a.m. | Morning tea |
| 11.30a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Morning break-out session: roadmaps for achieving visions and strategies
Facilitated break-out groups develop roadmaps that follow strategies so as to achieve the vision |
| 12.45p.m. - 1.45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1.45p.m. - 2.30 p.m. |
Presentation of roadmaps
Moderator: Michelle Malanca
Brief presentations in plenary of results of the morning break-out session on roadmaps
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2.30p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
| Afternoon break-out sessions: a network, rating tools, commitments and recommendations
Small groups with designated facilitators on the following topics:
- Africa-wide network support to green building
- Commitments by participants, and recommendations to UN-Habitat and the UN system
- Green building rating tools
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| 3.00 p.m. | Afternoon tea
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| 4.00 p.m. - 4.45 p.m. | Presentation of results of afternoon breakout sessions
Moderator: Michelle Malanca
Panel: Alioune Badiane, Christine Auclair, Vincent Kitio, Christophe Lalande, Bob Kehew, UN-Habitat
Presentations in plenary by representatives of afternoon breakout groups, on topics noted above
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| 4.45 p.m.- 5.00 p.m. | Concluding remarks and next steps
Moderator: Michelle Malanca
Panel: Alioune Badiane, Christine Auclair, Vincent Kitio, Christophe Lalande, Bob Kehew, UN-Habitat
Brief remarks offered by panel, with moderator |
| 5.00 p.m. - 5.15 p.m | Ceremonial signing of general Statement of Commitment by participants interested in promoting green building practices
Signing of Statement by interested parties, and group photograph in courtyard |
