24 May 2012
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Workshop // Workshop on "Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities": The Energy, Water and Food-Security Nexus
The rapidly growing cities in Asia will face enormous challenges in ensuring water, energy and food security for their population if not now than in near future. To discuss possibilities to address this challenge more than 40 participants from six Asian took part in the workshop on "Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities".
The event, organized by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) was launched on 24. May 2012 in Davis Hotel Bangkok. The aime was to prepare a regional project including 10 cities from Mongolia, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia and the Phillipines. The initiative for this project did arise after the "Bonn2011 Conference: The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus - Solutions for the Green Economy". It took place on 16 - 18 November 2011 in Germany focusing on a better understanding of the interconnections or nexus between energy, water and food security.
The German Government decided to support Asian cities in integrating the nexus perspective in their urban planning and development decision-making through exchanging and sharing experiences for solutions that successfully contribute to water, energy and food security.
As a first step the representatives of Chinas cities Ba Nan, Weifang, Rizhao, from Yogyakarta in Indonesia, the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Bator, from Santa Rosa and Naga City in the Philippines, Da Nang (Vietnam) and from Chiang Mai and Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand together with representatives of various orgnaisations and institutions such as BMZlink, GIZlink, CDIAlink, UN ESCAPlink, SEACUS, TEIlink, AVRCDlink gethered in Thailand to discuss ways and possibilities how to implement the new nexus approach in the cities' planned activities.