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ADVISORY: SPECIAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER, 7 AUG. 2007 (MaximsNewsJAPAN)
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July 2007 – The
climate is undergoing dramatic changes and water and sanitation issues are
deemed most vulnerable to the impact of climate change, with anticipated
large-scale water shortages, significant agricultural damage, a rise in
infectious diseases and intensification of natural disasters.
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How
prepared is the Asia-Pacific region to face this onslaught?
Dr.
Han Seung-Soo (President of Korea
Water Forum / Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Climate Change /
President, 56th Session of the UN General Assembly) will deliver the keynote
address, followed by panel discussions with the
participations of: Dr. James
Horne (Deputy Secretary, Department of the Environment and Water
Resources, Australia), Mr. Yoshinori
Imai (Executive Editor, NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation), Mrs. Margaret
Catley-Carlson (Chair of Global Water Partnership), and Mr. Loïc
Fauchon (President of World Water Council), among others.
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Media
are invited to attend the event:
Date:
Tuesday,
7 August 2007
Time:
10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Venue:
JETRO Headquarters,
Ark
Mori
Building
, room “Exhibition Hall” (5F),
12-32,
Akasaka 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo. Tel: 03-3582-5511,
www.jetro.go.jp
Please
confirm attendance with the Foreign Press Desk of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum
Secretariat by sending the reply form by fax (fax: 03-3263-8693) or E-mail (press@waterforum.jp),
on/or before 6 p.m. on Friday, 3 August
2007.
Contacts:
1)
Asia-Pacific
Water Forum Secretariat Attn: Shuichi Hirayama, Michiko Takenaka, tel:
03-5212-1645, www.apwf.org
2)
Foreign Press
Desk c/o Convention Linkage Inc. Tel: 03-3263-8698
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