Delivering Green Growth: Seizing New Opportunities for Industries - Korea/OECD workshop

Organised by Korea and OECD
4-5 March 2010
Seoul, Korea

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Green and growth can - and should - go hand in hand. There is a growing conviction across countries that we need a greener growth model. For that reason, the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting in June 2009 adopted a Declaration on Green Growth, which invited the OECD to develop a Green Growth Strategy with the aim of achieving economic recovery and environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth. The Korean government is already actively promoting a green growth agenda. Other countries, both within the OECD and outside, are elaborating their own strategies for green growth.

To help identify future strategies for green growth, the OECD and Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy jointly held a workshop on “Delivering Green Growth” on 4-5 March 2010, in Seoul, Korea. This two-day workshop was attended by over 400 participants from business, academia, research institutes, public organizations and governments.

Thirty-seven experts from eight countries and the OECD contributed to the presentation and discussion on a wide range of strategic topics on green growth: challenges and opportunities for industries, innovation and green growth, implications for growth and job creation, and policy approaches to foster green growth.

The summary report is available here. Links to speakers' presentations can be found below.

Thursday, 4 March 2010

09:30-10:30 Session 1: Welcome Remarks and Keynote Speeches

• Hyung-Kook Kim, Chair of Korean Presidential Committee on Green Growth
• Chemin Rim, Vice Minister, Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy
• Mario Amano, Deputy Secretary-General, OECD

10:30-12:30 Session 2: Innovation and Green Growth

• Dirk Pilat, Head of Structural Policy Division of the OECD: Innovation and green growth: Findings from the OECD Innovation Strategy
• Rick Johnson, Vice-Chair of the BIAC Committee on Technology: Creating innovation policy frameworks to unlock the value of green growth
• Hee-Jin Noh, of the Korea Capital Market Institute: Financial strategy to accelerate innovation for green growth 

14:00-16:30 Session 3: Challenges and Opportunities for Business (parallel sessions)

Car industry

• Ki-Sang Lee, Senior Vice President in the R&D Division of Hyundai-Kia Motor Company: Challenges and opportunities for green car industry
• Haruyoshi Kumura, Fellow of Nissan Motor Company: Technology development of Nissan's electric vehicle and future vision 
• Martin Koers, Head of Economic Policy and Climate Protection of the German Association of the Automotive Industry: European CO2 approach and possible transfer to South Korea 

Green IT

• Hongbeom Jeon, Senior Vice President of KT Corporation: KT’s Green Initiatives 
• Takao Shiino, Counsellor of the Nomura Research Institute: Green IT by all parties 
• Ken Mizugami, Consulting Sales Specialist of IBM Japan: Innovation for low carbon society - IT supports your objective 

Steel industry

• Ki-Hong Park, Executive Vice President at POSCO: Green Growth Strategy of POSCO 
• Anthony de Carvalho, Administrator in the OECD: Challenges & opportunities for the steel industry in moving towards green growth 
• Takashi Miwa and Mr. Haruji Okuda, COURSE 50 Committee of Japan: Technology development for environmentally harmonized steelmaking process

16:30-18:00 Session 4: Implications for Growth and Job Creation

• Joy-Up Ahn, Senior Research Fellow of Korea Labor Institute
• Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow of London School of Economics and Political Science: ‘Green’ growth and ‘green’ jobs: some challenges and opportunities 

Friday, 5 March 2010

09:00-12:00 Session 5: Policy Approaches to Foster Green Growth

• Yasuhisa Nakao, Director of Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, presented Japan’s Green Innovation Policy: Japan’s “Green Innovation” Policy 
• Ken Warwick, Deputy Chief Economic Advisor of the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills: UK Low Carbon Industrial Strategy - establishing an industrial policy for greener growth
• Matthew Howard, of the US Department of Commerce: Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative (SMI) 
• Berit Gullbransson, Director of Swedish Environmental Technology Council: Sweden’s approach to eco-efficiency
• Ji Xie, Deputy Director General of the National Development and Reform Commission of China: Energy-conservation objectives and measures
• Seok Cho, Deputy Minister for Industry of Korean Ministry of Knowledge Economy: Korea’s green growth strategy
• Rob Visser, Chair of the OECD Core Group on Green Growth: The OECD Green Growth Strategy 

Mr. Changhyun Jeong (OECD, changhyun.jeong@oecd.org)

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