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Funding for coverage of this Congress has been provided by the IHA |
Highlights from Friday, 24 May 2013 |
Plenary Session: Incorporating Sustainability into Business Practice |
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A view of the dais during plenary session on incorporating sustainability into business practice (L-R): Barbara Fischer-Aupperle, Voith Hydro, David Crean, Hydro Tasmania, Mark Lovett, Transparency International, and Pablo Cardinale, IFC |
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| Dominik Godde, E.ON Kraftwerke GmbH |
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| Moderator Roger Gill, HydroFocus |
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Focus Session: Climate Change: Four Dimensions of Hydropower |
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Focus Session: Climate Change: Four Dimensions of Hydropower (L-R): Phillipp Hauser, GDF Suez Latin America, Li Chong, China Three Gorges Corporation (CTGC), Tormod Schei, Statkraft AS, and Byman Hamududu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Zambia
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A view of the room during the session on climate change |
Focus Session: Renewable Systems: Sharing Experiences |
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A view of the dais: Miles Smith, Hydro Tasmania, Óli Grétar Blöndal Sveinsson, Executive Vice President, Landsvirkjun, Andrew Lang, Vice President, World Bioenergy Association, David Renné, President, International Solar Energy Society (ISES) |
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| Herman Darnel Ibrahim, National Energy Council of Indonesia |
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A view of the dais during the focus session |
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| Alexandre Uhlig, Instituto Acende Brasil |
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CEO Roundtable: What is modern hydropower? |
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A view of the dais during the CEO roundtable (L-R): Torstein Sjøtveit, CEO, Sarawak Energy Berhard (SEB), Roy Adair, CEO, Hydro Tasmania, Katai Kachasa, CEO, Lunsemfwa Hydro Power Company, Zambia, and Elsbeth Tronstad, SN Power, Wolfgang Semper, Chairman, Hydro Equipment Association (HEA), and Moderator David Appleyard, Chief Editor, HRW Hydro Review Worldwide |
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| Torstein Sjøtveit, CEO, Sarawak Energy Berhard (SEB), and Roy Adair, CEO, Hydro Tasmania |
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Focus Session: Working with Project Affected Communities |
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A view of the dais during the session on project affected communities: Richard Koranteng Twum Barimah, Executive Director, Ghana Dams Dialogue, Shi Guoqing, Director, National Research Center for Resettlement, Hohai University, China, Stephen Sparkes, Vice President, Statkraft AS, Moderator Tan Sri Rastam Mohd Isa, Chief Minister’s Department, Malaysia, Eduard Wojczynski, Chair, Canadian Hydropower Association (CHA), Datuk Fong Joo Chung, Director, SEB, and Labang Paneh, Indigenous Peoples Representative at Murum, Malaysia |
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A view of the room during the session |
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Eduard Wojczynski, Chair, CHA (center) |
Focus Session: Who's Investing in Hydropower? |
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A view of the dais during the session: Colin Clark, Chief Technology Officer, Brookfield Renewable Energy Group, Israel Phiri, Hydropower Consultant, Zambia, Waqar Ahmed Khan, CEO, Star Hydro Power Limited, and Kieron Stopforth, Bloomberg New Energy Finance |
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| Judith Plummer, University of Cambridge |
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Plenary Session: Informing Decision Making: Emerging Roles for the Protocol |
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A view of the dais during the session: Donal O’Leary, Transparency International (TI), Jian-hua Meng, WWF, Bernt Rydgren, ÅF Consult, Kate Lazarus, IFC, and Philipp Hauser, GDF SUEZ Energy Latin America |
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| Donal O’Leary, Transparency International, Jian-hua Meng, WWF, and Bernt Rydgren, ÅF Consult |
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| Moderator David Harrison, The Nature Conservancy |
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The opening session of the International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress convened on Wednesday, 22 May, in Kuching, Malaysia. Participants engaged in two plenary sessions, a high-level panel discussing directions for hydropower and a session on water and energy policies. Two parallel focus sessions took place, one on regional interconnections, and another on addressing the question of whether sustainability is constraining economic development. A special lecture during lunch discussed Sarawak’s Murum Project undertaken by the Sarawak Energy Berhard, and which when constructed will have a capacity of 944 megawatts. Side events in the afternoon were held in parallel to a meeting of Sustainability Partners, and covered: greenhouse gas (GHG) and freshwater reservoirs; net GHG emissions; and introduction to the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol. In the evening a reception took place at the Old Courthouse in Kuching.
 Web coverage for Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Download the IISD RS daily report for Wednesday, 22 May in HTML or PDF format
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High-Level Panel: Directions for Hydropower |
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A view of the dais during the opening high-level panel on directions for hydropower (L-R): |
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| Richard Taylor, Executive Director, IHA |
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A view of the room during the remarks of IHA President Refaat Abdel-Malek |
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| Jean-Michel Devernay, World Bank |
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| Peter Kallang, SAVE Rivers |
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Focus Session: Is sustainability constraining economic development? |
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A view of the dais during the session: Emmanuel Boulet, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Joerg Hartment, Independent Consultant, Viraphonh Viravong, Vice-Minister of Mines and Energy, Lao PDR, Cecelia Tortajada, President, Third World Centre for Water Management,
Arun Sen, CEO, Lanco International, and Eugenio Barrios, WWF Mexico |
Focus Session: Regional interconnections: making it work and maximizing value |
Plenary Session: Water and Energy Policies |
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A view of the dais during the plenary session |
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| Yamfwa Mukanga, Minister of Mines, Energy and Water Development, Zambia |
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| Side event introducing the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol: Doug Smith, IHA |
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Action outside the conference center |
State Dinner: Official Opening of the IHA World Congress 2013 |
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IHA President Refaat Abdel-Malek (left) and Chief Minister of Sarawak Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud (center) |
Networking Tour at Sarawak Cultural Village |
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| Delegates receive passports to get stamped at the different longhouses in Sarawak Cultural Village |
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| Delegates cross a traditional bamboo bridge at Sarawak Cultural Village. |
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| A tour guide explains the symbolic meaning of Iban textiles. |
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Katai Kachasa, Lunsenfwa Hydropower, Zambia, sits in front of the tree of life painting at the Orang Ulu longhouse. |
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| Rare pitcher plants were a highlight of the jungle trek. |
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Participants learn a traditional dance at Sarawak Cultural Village.
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Sarawak Energy Berhad booth |
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Daily web coverage
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International Hydropower Association (IHA) World Congress on Advancing Sustainable Hydropower 2013
