East Asia 2009 - Setting Asia's Green Growth Agenda

http://www.weforum.org 19.06.2009
Setting Asia's Green Growth Agenda
By investing up to two-thirds of their billion dollar recovery packages in promoting environmental initiatives, Asian countries are well poised to lead a global "Green New Deal", developing clean technologies and generating new jobs in the process.
Given high expectations for massive infrastructure investments to reignite Asian economies, what is the potential for Asia's green agenda?
Victor L. L. Chu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong SAR; Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum
Chiaki Ito, Vice-Chairman, Fujitsu, Japan
Kim Hyung-Kook, Chairman, Presidential Committee on Green Growth, Republic of Korea
Tarek Sultan Al Essa, Chairman and Managing Director, Agility, Kuwait
Opening Remarks by
Han Seung-Soo, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
Chaired by
Robert Greenhill, Managing Director and Chief Business Officer, World Economic Forum

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