| Cleared all conditions imposed on the United Nations conference. The first holding in Asia was a success in many means.
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"UNEP FI 2003 Global Roundtable - A Meeting on Finance and Sustainability"
Sustaining Value: A role of finance in sustainable society and value realization
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| ”Monday 20th, Tuesday 21st October, Hall B5, HallB7, Glass Hall conference room
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Mr. Takayuki Yamamoto, Social Environment group leader of Development Bank of Japan. |
"This conference was co-hosted by the Development Bank of Japan and the UNEP. As a conclusion, I believe it was a success in all senses of the content, the venue, and the weather.
We have positively been working on environment measures through loan and investment to corporate projects, and being the first Japanese bank to take part in the UNEP FI, we assumed a vital role as the organizer. We were anxious whether if we could accumulate funds in this economical circumstances to hold an international conference in Tokyo, the center of Asian finance and as a leading environmental country. But we were able to obtain backups from almost 10 Japanese financial institutes.
The next issue was the choice of the venue. The conditions were, to have both main and reception sites and to be able to serve meals in them, a place where there is more than four breakout rooms, to have a large lobby space in the main site as a place for information exchanges since this is a great opportunity for many environmental specialists to gather, to be conveniently located for visitors from other countries, to have a simultaneous interpretation facility, and above all to have a recognized name and prestige. The only place that could clear these conditions was the Tokyo International Forum.
As a result, it finished in great success with attendance of 490 people all together and 150 people from abroad. The site plan suggestion from the Tokyo International Forum was especially great. The two main sites of the B-block and its bridge to the Glass Hall conference rooms were functional as a guideline and were also received well from the visitors from abroad. Another good point was since most of the medias were located in the neighboring area, there were no need for pressrooms.
As for the secretariat, there were some difficulties in the coordination between parties since unlike the eagle-eye tune in of the Japanese, participants from abroad were more concern about the procession of the receptions and conferences than the logistics. But as Finance is considered necessary for the sustainable society, IÕm very pleased to be able to make the first holding in Asia a success. "
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Development Bank of Japan
The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) was established based on the Development Bank of Japan Law on October 1, 1999, as the successor to all rights and obligations of the Japan Development Bank and the Hokkaido-Tohoku Development Finance Public Corporation. DBJ provides long-term financing and other policy-based schemes to qualified projects. The first government-affiliated financial institution to be received the ISO 14001 certificate. Besides holding of environmental international meetings, DBJ arranges proactive approaches to environment issues through issuance of full-scale social environment reports and planning of financing facilities by environmental scoring.
http://www.dbj.go.jp
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